basil (propagation arc)
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gm, i’ve thought deeply on clanker since day zero & i am here to help with two things:
1) create sustainable long-term value for clanker token holders & ecosystem partners, and
2) establish clanker as THE canonical ecosystem token across fc AND base
my phase one thesis: no other ecosystem today matches clankers concentration of talent—if we can first ensure the token delivers real value for creators, then for THEIR native-token holders AND clanker holders, the flywheel will accelerate & distribution will widen organically
phase two in a nutshell: mimetic army, inorganic & incentivized distribution, incubation & expansion
this begins with downstream partners—teams like kompreni & nifty, who have just announced a tipn tge, new utility for their appstore token & a clanker buyback mechanism
in short, my goal is simple: deep, comprehensive ecosystem alignment & provisioned discovery
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sometimes i get restless about farcaster’s pace, then i open x, bluesky, or reddit & remember: fc is still the least toxic room on the public forum
everything we grumble about here—hyper-financialization, ai sludge, echo-chamber groupthink—exists everywhere else at 10× scale
that’s not a farcaster flaw; it’s the web in 2025… open forums can’t sustain real signal
bots, yield-seekers, and low-effort content overwhelm niche expertise… as the dead-internet materializes, real conversation will retreat behind walls
the winning pattern is small, curated networks: 15-person group chats, 150-member private servers—numbers that track with dunbar’s limits on trust—these groups have almost exclusively pushed the world forward these last 20 years…
nations, firms & creators that control their own walled gardens capture both mind-share & margin…
geopolitically, socially, philosophically… the future is not “open” despite what the technocrats tell you
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