@rish
We're excited that all of you're excited. Thank you for all the messages yesterday, there's a lot of work to do ahead.
Answering some frequent questions I got:
- Is anything shutting down?
no
- Will Neynar also run the wallet?
yes, we are acquiring the client
- What about validator nodes?
Merkle and Neynar are both still running validator nodes. As we transition, we are interested in adding validator operators. We have reached out to a few people who might be able to run stable validators. No precise timeline coz we just started onboarding on to the codebase yesterday but it is top of mind.
- Will Neynar open source the client?
Would be cool but the truth is that we have no idea at this time. We haven't even fully onboarded to the codebase yet. Lower priority relative to validator node operators.
Feel free to ask other questions in replies below and I will respond through the day. Some notes on that
- As you can tell, I don't have all the answers yet so in many cases, there's not much I can tell you; apologies in advance
- The more specific the question, the better
- If you're looking for a high level version of the plan, I posted about that yesterday and it's up on our blog here https://neynar.com/blog/neynar-is-acquiring-farcaster
- worth looking to see if someone has already asked the question you wanted to ask, makes it quicker for both you and me