Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
A few thoughts on Base app launching on Farcaster 1. This a big milestone for the Farcaster protocol! The Base app has millions of existing users that will be onboarded to Farcaster over the coming months. 2. It’s a big win for users — another well-funded client. Different features. Different algo. Different opportunities to earn (opt in!). Farcaster account and your social graph seamlessly work across both (simultaneously!). 3. It’s a big win for developers. Mini apps work with Base out-the-box. It was awesome to see Farcaster mini app developers on stage at the main event today! 4. Expect a few growing pains. We’re learning and working to make the experience as smooth as possible. 5. Expect both apps to try different experiments. A powerful part of Farcaster is permissionless innovation. The Degen and Clanker teams didn’t have to ask anyone for permission to build new experiences on Farcaster. Feature, not a bug.
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Nicholas <AESC>
@nintynick.eth
do you or merkle have a net new deal with them?
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
What do you mean? They permissionlessly integrated. We made some updates to the protocol to facilitate.
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Nicholas <AESC>
@nintynick.eth
technologically very cool, and congratulations. I see a lot of what they just shared on stage as things that you and the team innovated on and built from scratch, so I'm having a hard time understanding why you're cool with that other than this being a real shot at PMF level protocol usage & your cb shares
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
We’re building a protocol. Only works if there are a lot of daily active users. If another app is willing to bring a large number of users to the protocol, that’s a huge help. If we don’t scale daily active users 100-1000x then the protocol is just a science experiment. Not sure why my personal Coinbase shares would have anything to do with it?
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