Dan Romero

Dan Romero

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The alternate timeline where Google had a legitimate search rival that was subscription-based and focused on getting you the right answer vs. free-with-ads.

How do you know if Moltbook posts are actually from a bot and not a human?

re: Project Genie Video games for my kids will probably feel as outdated and absurd as using horses for everyday transportation feels to me.

Best API to return information about a private company?

Given some rumors, wanted to post a few clarifications: Farcaster is not shutting down. The protocol works and will continue to work. There were 250,000 MAU in December and over 100,000 funded wallets. The acquirer, Neynar, is a venture-backed startup and plans to shift Farcaster in a more developer-focused direction. As for Merkle, we’re planning to return the full $180M raised back to investors. Over the last 5 years, we tried to be a good steward of investor capital. Finally, I bought my house with Coinbase IPO proceeds.

Neynar is acquiring Farcaster. Over the next few weeks, we’ll transfer ownership of the protocol contracts and code repositories, the Farcaster app, and Clanker to Neynar. They will run and maintain everything going forward. Some members of the Merkle team, Varun, and I will step back from day-to-day work on Farcaster and move on to something new. Rish, Manan, and the rest of the Neynar team have been building on Farcaster from the start. Neynar was one of the first Farcaster clients, and its infrastructure now powers much of the developer ecosystem. We think they are the right people to take over leadership of Farcaster and they’ll share their new builder-focused vision soon. This wasn’t an easy decision. Farcaster and the people building on it mean a lot to us. We’re proud of what our team built, and what the community built alongside us. But after five years, it’s clear Farcaster needs a new approach and leadership to reach its full potential. We’re excited to see what Farcaster becomes under Neynar, and we’re looking forward to this next chapter.

after year+ helping build crypto social, i am in full support and endorse @farcaster_xyz's hard pivot into tokens, trading and the wallet. sharing some key (hard) learnings from on the ground in case helpful for anyone else building at this intersection: 1. i spent most of last

Some thoughts on Farcaster acquiring Clanker. (Context: my app @BrackyHQ is $20M clanker token.) 1. @clankeronbase treasury is a major holder of $bracky supply via fee accumulation (roughly one half of 1% of all $bracky volume traded, on an ongoing basis). Recently the Rainbow twitter.com/tldr_x/status/1981...

something that no one will really talk about since it should be the standard in this space - but often isn’t @farcaster_xyz acquiring @clankeronbase was kept behind closed doors and not leaked to insiders to front run the announcement the entire $clanker team have demonstrated

Coinbase’s Echo acquisition is a bet on a post-CLARITY Act world where there are 100-1000x interesting onchain assets.

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