@cassie

Overall, a great take. I don't fully agree with the perception of Neynar trying to right the course – this judgment feels clouded by the fact they personally worked with him (a protocol-first approach would have had an open discussion, and when they had something like this, in the form of an FIP – they disregarded all objections that were based on grounds of neutrality, security, and equal footing for implementation and shipped it anyway), but I can understand where he's coming from. I'd also disagree that there's any willingness to work with the hypersnap team – it took them lying about the current state of client integrations with hypersnap on the last dev call and me coming immediately with receipts for them to back down and agree to at least work on a testnet approach, however, this was words, and their actions have been literally none. They have not reached out to us to set this up, and frankly, I don't believe they will. I'm not going to work with a team that only moves the needle towards neutrality when they're caught in a lie – they have to actually push forward on this themselves. There's also an undercurrent that others simply aren't aware of. We've worked together before farcaster, at least, some members of the neynar leadership have, at Coinbase. This obstructionist behavior couched in cooperative words is something I'm very familiar with, it's why I was prepared to have receipts at the ready. I hate corporate politics and have zero room for it. No matter what though, I will at least affirm, regardless of what Neynar does: I'm committed to seeing farcaster succeed. I wouldn't have been willing to put time into this by joining Merkle in the prior days, and continued even after they went into a quiet period or after they dissolved.

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