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Will Farcaster Retain Crypto Natives and Reach Mainstream Adoption? | Analyst Round Table

Feb 7, 2024

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Quick takeaways

Being early and monetizing early is the current trend in crypto, but retaining and engaging the audience is the challenge.

Farcaster, built on optimism mainnet, offers a decentralized social network with smooth user experience, channels, and frames.

Stri aims to incentivize participation in its ecosystem through dropping native tokens, focusing on liquid staking and dominance within the atom ecosystem.

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Crypto native audience and early adoption

Many crypto native users are drawn to crypto because they feel like they're early to something, which is native to the crypto audience. Being early and monetizing early is the current trend. The challenge is to retain the audience and keep them engaged.

Introduction

3min

Transaction failures, Solana mobile, and future hardware products

9min

Market Dynamics, Layer 2 Dominance, and an Ongoing Vote

4min

Discussion on Transparency in Crypto Companies and Promising Protocol for Trading

2min

Clusters and On-Chain Names: Convenience and Partnerships

2min

Success of Incentives and Migration to DYDX Chain

2min

Combating Wash Trading in the Crypto Space

22min

Building on Fame and Liquid Staking Tokens

14min

Implications of Prediction Markets and the Future of Gaming and Crypto

3min

In today's analyst roundtable Sam, Ren, Westie, and Brick dive into the biggest news this week including the rise of farcaster, Jupiter's historic airdrop and much more. They unpack Solana mobile's 60k unit sales milestone and whether growing LST protocols are sustainable. Other topics covered include Apecoin DAO's vote on which L2 to launch on, Clusters' partnership with GoDaddy, and an in-depth discussion on Spark Protocol's growth in the MakerDAO ecosystem. Stick around for all of this and much more!

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(1:21) Jupiter Airdrop Review

(3:17) Solana Mobile 60k Units Sold

(7:07) LRT Expansion

(11:48) DAS London Ad

(12:55) Apecoin DAO Voting on L2 Launch

(16:41) Clusters Partners with GoDaddy

(18:09) dYdX Segment: Chaos Labs

(23:07) Spark Protocol Growth

(29:26) Farcaster's Rise

(43:56) Stride Airdrop for stTIA Holders

(51:27) Crypto the Game

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