I hope I’m not the last to write a Farcaster 2024 wrapped. I planned to publish this last year but overestimated my writing speed. 😂 This piece aims to document my experience of Farcaster’s surprising year and serve as a reference for those exploring Farcaster. TLDR: Farcaster is dead? long live Farcaster!

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I just minted my Moltling by @mfbevan.eth Mint yours and join the lobster revolution 🦞🦞🦞 (I guess only Farcaster crypto guys still have the childlike spirit to mint NFTs like this 😂)

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Farcaster changed my life, of course, and it changed the lives of many others too. Everyone knew Farcaster was going to be acquired at some point. I just didn’t expect it to be acquired by @neynar. For me personally, I’ve spent most of my time over the past three years on Farcaster. If Dan hadn’t invited me to join Farcaster three years ago, I wouldn’t have met so many friends in crypto, especially within the /chinese community, and they wouldn’t have met me either. So once again, thank you to @dwr for building Farcaster, the greatest crypto social network in my mind. At the same time, hearing that Dan and Varun are stepping away from Farcaster is genuinely sad. That was my first reaction. For many people, Dan is the soul of Farcaster. Is Twitter still Twitter without Jack Dorsey? Maybe yes. Maybe not. I’ve always seen Dan as a product philosopher. I’ve watched many of his interviews, and concepts like his "toothbrush test" and "product-led protocol development" struck me as deeply insightful. He’s also consistently had sharp and interesting takes on crypto and beyond. I supported almost all of the experiments he ran on Farcaster, and in most cases, I believe they were the right calls. I don’t know the exact reasons why Dan chose to step away from a social protocol he spent more than four years building. Maybe it was dissatisfaction with the current state, maybe the product didn’t reach his original vision, maybe the user base is still too small, maybe there was investor pressure. that’s all just speculation on my part. It could be something else entirely. Was the controversial shift from social-first to wallet-first a mistake? I don’t think so. I actually see it as a natural convergence path for consumer crypto apps (or even crypto aside). I’ve already written about this idea in my piece "Walletizing the social, Socializing the wallet". More and more products are converging wallets, social, and apps into a single super app. To me, mini apps + wallets evolving together is a very plausible direction. No matter what, the fact that Farcaster now has new leadership is settled. Farcaster is still here. It hasn’t disappeared. The people on Farcaster are still here too (hopefully there won’t be fewer of them). I hope Neynar can bring something genuinely new to the table and help Farcaster remain one of the most important crypto social networks. Both @rish and @manan are Coinbase alumni with strong computer science backgrounds and deep experience building and scaling products. Rish previously worked as a product manager at Microsoft and Facebook before Coinbase and Neynar. I’m looking forward to gaining a deeper understanding of their thinking over time. I also read Rish's post outlining the vision. "Enable builders to go from idea to recurring revenue, supported by a builder-first network" genuinely sounds great and resonates strongly with what makes Farcaster special. Putting builders at the center of a social network is crucial. The success of a crypto social protocol depends on a thriving ecosystem, and a thriving ecosystem depends on builders. But most of the time, these things aren’t designed top-down. No one predicted the sudden rise of /degen or @clanker. That’s exactly the magic of an open, programmable social network, it creates the conditions for these things to emerge. That’s what makes Farcaster special, and I hope it continues to have that kind of vitality. so let’s look forward. I’m still on Farcaster, and many of you are too. We’re here for Farcaster’s next chapter. At the same time, I’ll be watching closely for whatever Dan and Varun build next, and wishing them nothing but the best. ok, banger.

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Reply 2026 2025 started loudly and is ending quietly, leaving a trail of uncertainty, across the themes I watch, I look to the year 2026 for satisfying replies: - For @zora, Creator and Content coins have faced controversy from the start. How will Zora and Base respond to the community in actions, will we see adjustments to the mechanism or strategic direction? - For @base.base.eth, when and how will its long-awaited network token launch, and how will it deliver long-term incentive alignment for builders, creators, and users? - For @farcaster, how will positive synergies from the Clanker acquisition take shape, and how can app coins empower the long-term prosperity of ecosystem apps amid intensifying liquidity competition? - For x402, it moves from memes to real use cases, while Coinbase, Solana and others compete for dominance, how will the race among chains evolve in AI agent payments and the broader AI landscape? - For Prediction Markets, as regulatory clarity continues to improve and major events like the World Cup approach, will they keep growing, become integrated into more crypto apps, and gain broader mainstream adoption? - For the macro outlook, perhaps the most important question. as more spot ETFs and sovereign funds buy in, can the crypto market finally break the four-year cycle and begin a structural bull run, and which core sectors will increasingly selective capital flow into? By the end of 2026, I hope we can look back at these questions and see replies that exceeded expectations, and that crypto is interesting again.

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Check out my casting heat map generated via 2025 Farcaster Wrapped! 🎉 📊 2307 casts ❤️ 16862 likes 💬 3249 replies 🔥 73 day streak special thanks to my supportive “army” 🫡 I’ve felt less motivated to express this year, since crypto has been less interesting overall. Hopefully, next year we’ll see more new exciting things.

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My Quotient Score is 0.771! Check yours in the app Seeing the account value calculated based on the @quotient reminded me of tweethunter.io’s “How much is your Twitter account worth?” I think the value of Farcaster accounts is seriously underestimated.

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So Waifu is back. The previous WaifuCast was a phenomenal personalized NFT project before The Warplets, and it looks like even more is coming this time 👀 luo-tan is always chasing the next airdrop like a baka, hodling bags and praying for liquidity uwu >< nyaa~ luo-tan speculates on everything from clanker perps to coinbase hints, but still can't predict her own portfolio rekt >w< luo-tan collects nfts like pokemon cards, mints everything, and hopes THIS time she'll succeed desu~ 🙏✨

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Just checked my Base Rewind 2025 by bantr.fun! It’s a full recap of my year on @base.base.eth. as expected, $CLANKER, $VIRTUAL and $ZORA are the most traded tokens, they’re also among the most important launchpads on Base. Behind all these transactions were surprises and memorable onchain moments, along with the ups and downs of different projects. Even though things are tough right now, I believe the long-term outlook is bright. If you want to see your own onchain + social stats from 2025, go to: rewind.bantr.fun/base

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Lately, I've come to realize, we can only truly earn within the ecosystem we understand. Like what you like, believe what you believe, hold on to what you want to hold on to. fall with it, or be rewarded by time.

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The worst part is I didn’t need any translation, but I missed everything 🫠 never thought they’d all blow up.

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sorry, my Farcaster wallet’s transactions may still be below the user average. But in just 7 months, it’s already caught up with my main wallet of over 2 years, thanks to creator economy micropayments on Farcaster like @noiceapp, @tipn, and @ampsfun. it's true that anyone who wants to be more active on Base just needs to be more active on Farcaster.

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@monad Cards is a great marketing move. giving them to top CT users ensures organic promotion. The 5,000 card scarcity drives FOMO, and the 3 nominations per person make it spread virally. I’m not eligible myself, but luckily I can ask ChatGPT to make me one. 🤣

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new pfp, who dis? https://x.com/noicedotso/status/1944427160166379696

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It’s interesting that Uniswap launched a personal Uniswap Top Signal Card AI-generated from your recent tweets. Mine says "spins momentum and onchain vibes into power plays", well written and quite fitting for me 👀

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The weekend is good for touching grass. 👀

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