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The blind spot of much of today’s SV-based and SV-adjacent tech leadership is that they were shaped by, and succeeded during, the 1990s—one of the rare moments in history when the world was converging toward homogenization and globalization. In computer terms: the US was the "standard". Countries, companies, and people that wanted to participate in global business aligned with US rules—legal, financial, trade, regulatory. Compatibility meant access. That world is gone. Today we live in a highly interconn...

Snapchain is a simple blockchain where Farcaster social activity takes place. Every cast, reaction and follow is stored as a Snapchain transaction. A snapchain transaction is a social action like making a new post. Alice says “Hello World” by making an add-post transaction, signing it with her app key and broadcasting it. Nodes verify that every transaction is correctly signed according to the specification. Common actions like deleting posts or following other users have their own transaction types. Sna...

Farcaster Pro is launching next week, and at some point it will introduce features like 10,000-character casts and up to four images per cast. These enhancements will require a protocol upgrade. While I believe in the core idea of a Pro subscription, for me, this reopens a (friendly!) long-standing debate I have with the Merkle Manufactory (MM) team: I believe new types of content should be stored outside the protocol. The Core Idea I believe that we should store as little content as possible on snapchai...