Jakub
@jakub
Social and consumer investments @ 1kx network. Founder of /socialgraphvc
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When Social Graph Ventures did the first round of Neynar an obvious exit to us was Farcaster eventually acquiring Neynar.
Insane to see how the tables have turned, but generally feel bullish about Rish taking things forward.
Excited to share that Neynar is acquiring Farcaster from Merkle.
This means we will now maintain the Farcaster protocol, run the Farcaster client and operate Clanker. As part of this change - @dish and part of the Clanker team will be joining Neynar.
@neynar is the software platform for the @farcaster ecosystem. A
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Neynar is acquiring Farcaster.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll transfer ownership of the protocol contracts and code repositories, the Farcaster app, and Clanker to Neynar. They will run and maintain everything going forward.
Some members of the Merkle team, Varun, and I will step back from day-to-day work on Farcaste
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end of an era
Update: Farcaster Rewards are changing
Tomorrow will be the last day for current version of creator rewards. This experiment started a year ago and has paid out $1M+ to creators who casted on Farcaster.
While this had some success, it's not aligned with our new direction. We will be launching a new experiment soon t
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It’s May 2024 you’re in Venice, LA for Farcon rocking your new FC merch. Degen is absolutely printing and Higher too. We’re at 70k DAUs things are looking great and everyone at the conference is saying these are the early days of facebook. Life feels absolutely great. Pure nostalgia
It took us over a year from then bu...
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