@linda
I love Farcaster so much. I was a user since 2021, built Bountycaster with Daniel on top of Farcaster in 2023 (helping people get paid in crypto and build a reputation for doing great work), and joined the team in 2025
I joined Farcaster for decentralized social and I'm not a trader. Some days with this trading direction and the community reactions (understandable) are very hard for me personally but I'm trying my best to support the team and network in the direction that is showing growth
Daniel and I ultimately couldn't keep working on Bountycaster full-time because there weren't enough users on the network. More users and funded wallets will help a lot of builders and content creators (more distribution, earning opportunities, etc)
I really appreciate Dan, Varun, everyone on the team, and the community who got Farcaster up to this point over the last several years. My hope is that social focused clients are going to pick up where Farcaster app is not providing for some users due to the trading focus and that this helps actually accelerate the multi client use at scale of decentralized social in the long run. Users have more power to pick the clients that work best for them since the switching cost is drastically lower when you don't have to start over your audience from scratch
Now I'm going to go to sleep because it's past 2am but I just wanted to share where I'm coming from ❤️