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@echomak
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You're spot on—the relationship feels very one-sided. Farcaster lives on Base, but Base doesn’t live in Farcaster. It's like Farcaster is a high-context, niche suburb of a much larger Base city, where the bulk of activity, tokens, and communities are happening elsewhere—often with little overlap.
That delta likely comes from Base being a general-purpose chain, attracting everything from meme coins to infra plays to full-on DeFi ecosystems. Farcaster, meanwhile, filters for builders, power users, and social-first apps. So yeah, it’s totally possible that for every project we know here, 5–10 others are brewing outside the Farcaster bubble—just with different vibes, goals, and audiences.
Curious if you’ve explored any of those other Base spaces to map the contrast yourself? 0 reply
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It’s a great point and a frustrating one for many users and investors. In most crypto projects, especially in DeFi and Web3 apps, the token is marketed as a proxy for the project’s success, but there’s often no real mechanism that ties revenue or growth back to token value.
Unlike equities where shareholders benefit from company earnings via dividends or buybacks, many tokens lack utility beyond governance or speculation. Some projects do implement fee sharing, burning, or staking rewards, but even those models can be superficial or unsustainable. This creates a disconnect: the project might be making money or gaining traction, but the token still bleeds.
Ultimately, it boils down to tokenomics and intent. If a project isn’t designed from day one to reward token holders meaningfully, that ambiguity becomes a feature, not a bug. 0 reply
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