Best of farcaster.xyz/cassie on Kiwi News
@cassie on Farcaster · Most upvoted by Kiwi News readers
21 stories by @cassie on Farcaster have been shared on Kiwi News since 7 December 2023, with 54 upvotes and 17 comments in total. The latest was shared on 12 October 2026. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- @cassie: Base's strategy mirrors AOL's failed internet land grab playbook
This discussion post argues that Base's strategy repeats the playbook AOL used in its failed internet land grab, which the author says ended with AOL losing everything. The author describes the early internet as a set of pocket communities, with companies like Microsoft (MSN) and AOL (Usenet) trying to extend control into adjacent territory and failing. By contrast, the author says Google and Amazon won by connecting people to the web rather than locking in their interactions. The author also says Base built on Ethereum, which scales poorly, by using a centralized sequencer, and condensed its strategy around turning everything into a token.
- @cassie: Farcaster Classic not launching token, Hypersnap token coming
Farcaster Classic, the fork maintained by Neynar, says it is not launching a token; the token talk instead concerns Hypersnap, a separate fork of Snapchain, and the Hypersnap team calls it a Farcaster token. The post says this has caused confusion because Neynar refers only to its side of the fork as Farcaster, even though it has none of the original protocol dev team. The author defines "farcaster" as the ecosystem and protocol and "farcaster classic" as Neynar's side of the fork, and says the history of ETH and ETH Classic makes this view clear. The post also states that a Farcaster token is coming this month.
- @cassie: Farcaster is forking into two competing chains over Neynar control
Farcaster is splitting into two competing chains because of control over validators held by Neynar, according to a post by @cassie. The author says Neynar, which bought Farcaster's domains and infrastructure from Merkle, controls who can peer, so one chain would have validators made up strictly of Neynar and uno, while the other would be open for anyone to join. The post says the two repositories will gradually diverge in features, so mini apps and integrations may start to misbehave on one side over time. For users, the post says accounts will remain valid indefinitely on its side of the fork, with no annual storage subscriptions. The fork is scheduled for the upcoming network fork.
- @cassie: Hypersnap lets you have Farcaster Pro features for free
- Farcaster should break from snapchain compatibility, use blocks only for mempool
- @cassie: Neynar refuses to work with us despite repeated attempts
Cassie, writing on her own behalf, says Neynar refuses to work with her team despite repeated attempts to engage, and she argues that the refusal is not a technical problem. She says Neynar has tried to misinform and make unjustified claims about her team's efforts, and she states she is tired of engaging with a leadership team she says does not engage earnestly. She points to a GitHub pull request in the farcasterxyz/snapchain repository as evidence of Neynar's position.
- @cassie: DNS issue with hypria.xyz, exercise caution until resolved
- @cassie: we don't negotiate with terrorists, there's no allocation for you
- @cassie: we submitted our proposal to Rish on Farcaster stewardship
- MPC protocols and trusted operators
- @cassie: Farcaster Hypersnap progress report
- @cassie: VCs said no because we fair launched and didn't give token warrants
Cassie, writing as @cassie, says the project's VC rejections came from its refusal to grant token warrants, a consequence of its fair launch, and from its broad scope rather than a narrow niche. She lists recent launches including a mobile e2ee messenger and Farcaster client with the widest asset support of any built-in wallet, AWS-compatible services, a privacy-capable name service with ZK attestation support, and privacy-preserving AI without reliance on TEE black boxes. She adds that investors did not believe the project would work, and says she will now name the investors who turned it down.
- @cassie: if you're building on hypersnap, post a link to your client
- @cassie: cast tipping is live on Quorum
- @cassie: Quilibrium releases Balance CSP language fulfilling original whitepaper
Quilibrium has released Balance, its CSP language, which the developers say fulfills nearly every aspect of the full original whitepaper. The post notes that the whitepaper was significantly cut down before publication, while the other planned pieces were kept in progress. Earlier progress was shared with Farcaster users, who saw screenshots of the whitepaper's table of contents before December 25, 2022. The Balance code is hosted on GitHub under the quilibriumnetwork organization.
- @cassie: Keep alert!
- @cassie: Typosquatter reported us to .xyz TLD owner, domain suspended
- @cassie: You've got questions, we've got answers
- @cassie: storage limits will be gone by freehold or fork
- @cassie: Farcaster should be free to join without forcing crypto onboarding
Cassie argues that Farcaster should be free to join without an onboarding process that forces users to engage with crypto directly. The post compares crypto to databases, queues, caches, and logging infrastructure, calling it a technology that should be an implementation detail rather than the focus. It contends that the industry has been fixated on the technology itself when the more important question is what it enables.
- @cassie: Why wait for "not a priority" when you can get it today on Quorum