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@dwr.eth on Farcaster · Most upvoted by Kiwi News readers
70 stories by @dwr.eth on Farcaster have been shared on Kiwi News since 31 May 2023, with 198 upvotes and 62 comments in total. The latest was shared on 28 August 2026. The 50 most upvoted are listed below.
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- Farcaster is now open to everyone
- dwr on Farcaster marketing & expanding beyond crypto
- @dwr: Neynar is acquiring Farcaster protocol, app, and Clanker
Neynar is acquiring the Farcaster protocol, the Farcaster app, and Clanker from Merkle, with ownership transfers planned over the next few weeks. Varun & Dan (Varun and Dan) announced the change, saying Neynar will run and maintain everything going forward and will take over leadership of Farcaster. According to the announcement, some Merkle team members, Varun, and Dan will step back from day-to-day Farcaster work, and the FAQ says the Clanker team is continuing with Neynar. The authors state that after five years, Farcaster needs a new approach and leadership, and that Neynar will share its builder-focused vision soon.
- @dwr.eth: Farcaster Pro sells out 10,000 units in under 6 hours
- Farcaster introducing Explore
- How decentralized is Farcaster today?
- Why can’t I request to join a channel?
- @dwr: Farcaster rolls out new brand with Primary Studio refresh
- Fediverse vs. Farcaster discussion
- @dwr.eth: Farcaster introduces optional Pro subscription model
- Warpcast Rewards
- @dwr.eth: Farcaster Pro's path to protocol sustainability
- New on Warpcast: Starter Packs
- introduction to latest version of Warpcast Channels
- @dwr.eth: Warpcast may rebrand to Farcaster to reduce user confusion
- Introducing Token Links
- @dwr: State of Farcaster, December 2025 – pivoting to wallet-first growth
Dan Romero (@dwr) and Varun say Farcaster is pivoting to wallet-first growth after more than five years of work toward a decentralized social network with 1 billion daily users. They say the earlier social-first strategy, over 4.5 years, shipped a sufficiently decentralized protocol but found no sustainable growth mechanic and no product-market fit. The company launched a wallet in its app earlier this year, which the article says has scaled quickly and is the closest it has come to product-market fit in five years. The article argues that every wallet user is also on the protocol, and that it is easier to add a wallet to a social network than the reverse. It adds that the protocol is an open collection of casts, follows, reactions, identities, and wallets, with other clients such as Uno, Recaster, Cura, Base, Zapper, and Firefly taking different approaches.
- @dwr.eth: Farcaster Pro subscribers get 0.25% swap fees, down from 1%
- dwr.eth: Why we're focused on video
- How Farcaster Hubs work
- @dwr.eth: why passkeys fall short of universal authentication
- dwr.eth: decentralized social network has been terrible framing for Farcaster
- Narrowcasts
- @dwr: Used AI to run Farcaster iOS client on simulator in 2h10m, 1.1M tokens
Dan Romero (@dwr) reports that he used Codex with GPT5.6 Sol and its goal feature to get the Farcaster client running on the iOS Simulator on his MacBook. The process took 2 hours and 10 minutes and 1,134,938 tokens. He then had the agent write a guide for other agents aimed at reducing setup time and token use. He notes that downloading Xcode may take a while, and says that before AI, setup would have been impossible for most people and very frustrating for experienced ones.
- @dwr.eth: lazyweb: how does Ethena generate above market yield?
- @dwr.eth: Grok 4 benchmarks
- @dwr.eth: Open sourcing Farcaster mobile and web clients under MIT license
- @dwr.eth: Stripe USDB, Ramp card, US Senate vote and who is going to make money
- @dwr.eth: Silicon Valley's anonymous deal flow insider reveals startup intel
- Farcaster protocol user stats
- What's on your mind re: Farcaster?
- fc channels update: public mode
- @dwr: Clanker joins Farcaster, protocol fees to buy $CLANKER, team burns
Clanker, a launchpad on Base, is joining Farcaster, with the Clanker team announcing that protocol fees will now be used to buy and hold $CLANKER. The announcement says Clanker is home to projects like Bankr, Noice and Bracky, and that the companies plan to integrate Clanker more deeply into the Farcaster app. The team also burned ecosystem tokens that Clanker v0 through v3.1 had collected in a fee vault, and permanently locked roughly 7% of the $CLANKER supply into a one-sided LP, both steps reducing circulating supply.
- @dwr.eth: Farcaster deprecating warp-paid invites in 7 days, new system coming
- @dwr.eth: consumers don't care about wallets, apps should create them for UX
- @dwr.eth: Farcaster Pro NFT airdrop, 10K character casts, and Base contract
- dwr.eth: Why migration tactics fail and network effects matter for Farcaster
- @dwr.eth: Average new users join Farcaster to be entertained or make money
- @dwr.eth: protocol-level features and consumer surplus in social networks
- @dwr on Proof of Human
- Dan Romero on why they built Warpcast wallet
- Warpcast muted words and users.
- Should you build a Farcaster Client?
- How to think about Farcaster protocol data
- @dwr: Clanker presale sold out in 30 seconds, allowlist planned for next one
Dan Romero (@dwr) reports that the Clanker presale sold out in less than 30 seconds and congratulates the @farhouse team. He says the primary goal was for the team to receive all the presale ETH, and that the token is now liquid, though presale participants are locked up for the next 7 days. He says an allowlist is planned for the next presale, along with future changes to the onchain presale mechanism, and that he is disappointed more people could not participate but optimistic about improvements.
- @dwr.eth: gm happy wwdc keynote day to those who celebrate
- another one
- Open thread about Warpcast by dwr.eth
- stop thinking of channels as canonical topics
- How are you feeling about the new channel changes?