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Curious why @virtualsprotocol.eth isn’t active on @farcaster 
 Both are top players on @base 
 
Would love to see them intersect. Seems like a win-win : more traffic, more YAP, more fun.
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Wee Kee, the co-founder of Virtuals Protocol, answered this question in a podcast interview — “There’s zero reason to build there. Like, there is no traffic”. (at 15:42). I wonder if he would have a different answer now.

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Wee Kee, the co-founder of Virtuals Protocol, answered this question in a podcast interview — “There’s zero reason to build there. Like, there is no traffic”. (at 15:42). I wonder if he would have a different answer now.

https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/678ca2818d7ef7b6b04f2cd9

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I think I’ve never learned so much from a single conversation, thank you so much for all the explanations luo. I now understand much better what’s being built here and what’s at stake

First, Farcaster isn’t built on Base, the registration data is actually on OP. Meanwhile, miniapps now support multiple major chains including ETH, Base, OP, Arbitrum, and newer additions like Monad and Celo.

That said, Farcaster is often associated with Base, likely because of their close relationship, and many Base devs are active here.

Still, many projects on Base continue to focus solely on Twitter, skipping Farcaster. The likely reason is what Wee Kee pointed out: fewer users mean lower traffic, and the ROI of building or operating here doesn’t seem high.

From this angle, if Farcaster had more users and higher DAU, it might attract more devs. But the opposite is also true: only when more devs build here will more users come. That’s what Farcaster is trying to do, onboard more chains, attract more devs, and showcase what can happen when Farcaster social graph + Warplet + miniapps.

But someone has to benefit first to prove the value. It’s still early, and it takes time.

Thank you so much for your response, I’ll listen to it tonight. I’m definitely not an expert, quite the opposite actually, I know nothing about all this.

But it does raise some questions for me: if a Web3-native platform like Farcaster, built on Base, isn’t able to attract the biggest protocol project on Base like Virtual, isn’t that a real problem ?

What I find a bit unfortunate is that Farcaster is betting on smart, interesting builders… and from what I see, it’s exactly the same on Virtual’s side, right?

Maybe I’m wrong, like I said, I’m no expert. But if you have any thoughts on this, I’d love to hear them