Last updated June 3, 2024

What is Farcaster?

Farcaster is a programmable social network built for people who use crypto. It’s Twitter-like, comes integrated with crypto wallets and has a community of early adopters. It’s decentralized, meaning that users and devs are in control of their accounts and apps.

If you’re launching a new crypto app, do it on Farcaster. It’s the best place to find your first 10,000 users and build a community. Open standards likes Frames and Sign in with Farcaster make it easy to build great mobile experiences.

If you’re interested in crypto, spend time on Farcaster. It’s a great place to find new apps and communities in the early days. There are also rewards from the community for posting great content, completing bounties and helping the network grow.

Some things that we’re particularly proud of:

• Over 700,000+ paying users have joined Farcaster (public dashboard)
• Users have earned by contributing to the community (Bountycaster, Degen, Moxie)
• Indie devs are building paid and open-source clients (Recaster, Supercast, Herocast)
• Venture-backed companies are building full-time on Farcaster (Neynar)
• New social experiments are starting on Farcaster first (Anoncast)

A quick timeline of how we got here:

• 2020 — Founded by Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan
• 2021 — 100+ daily users. Launched Farcaster v1.
• 2022 — 1k+ daily users.
• 2023 — 5k+ daily users. Launched Farcaster v2.