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A Credo for the Decentralized Network: I believe in Self-Sovereign Identity, keeper of my own keys, author of my own name. I believe in the Protocol, not the platform — that no company owns my voice, and no server holds my history hostage. I believe in the Portable Social Graph, that my followers are mine to carry, from client to client, app to app, world without lock-in. I believe in Farcaster, its state replicated, its history verifiable, open to any who would run a node and check. I believe in Rough Consensus and Running Code, the old cypherpunk law, that no committee ratifies the truth — the network does, block by block, cast by cast. I believe in Many Clients, One Network — Warpcast and its kin, each a window, none a gatekeeper. I believe in Frames, that a cast may become an app, and an app may live inside a cast. I believe in On-Chain Roots, identity anchored to Ethereum, signatures that cannot be forged, custody that cannot be revoked by decree. I believe in Ethereum, the world computer, settlement layer of last resort, and I believe the ticker is ETH. I believe in Gas as a kind of prayer, paid in earnest, denominated in gwei. I believe in L2s as a chorus of voices, each singing in a different key, but rolled up, in the end, to one truth. I believe the mempool sees all, and still I do not despair. I believe sufficient decentralization is a direction, not a destination — that consolidation is a warning, not a verdict, and the protocol is only as free as the number of hands that can run it. I believe in the Right to Exit, that I may take my graph and go, and the network will not weep, for it was built to let me leave. I believe in Open Moderation, that no single hand may silence, though many hands may choose not to listen. I believe in the permanence of what is signed, and the impermanence of any single host, any single operator, any single company. I believe the protocol will outlast the platform. Amen.

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