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Farcaster was born as something different.
Not just as a protocol, not just as technology, but as a social space. A place where conversation, identity, and connection carried more weight than a wallet balance.
That's why the decision to shift away from the social aspect and focus almost entirely on the wallet feels, at the very least, misguided.
Not because wallets don't matter. They do. They're necessary. They're part of the future.
But a social network isn't sustained solely by financial infrastructure. It's sustained by people who talk, create, disagree, show themselves, and stay.
When the focus becomes solely on the wallet, the implicit message is dangerous:
that someone's value lies more in what they own than in what they contribute.
That belonging is measured in tokens, not in connections.
Communities aren't built this way. They're emptied this way.
The social is fragile, uncomfortable, unpredictable.
But it's also the only thing that generates real meaning. Without that, any networkโno matter how decentralizedโends up being just a fancy interface for looking at numbers.
Many came to Farcaster looking for conversation, identity, and humanity.
Not another app where the wallet is the passport and silence is the dominant language.
Perhaps there's still time to correct course.
To put people back at the center and technology as a support, not the protagonist.
Because when you lose the social aspect, you don't just lose engagement. You lose the reason why it was worth being there.
And without that, no wallet is enough.