Farcaster with Dan Romero

Today I’m joined by Dan Romero. Dan is the co-founder of Farcaster and former VP of Operations at Coinbase.

Farcaster is a decentralized communication protocol that uses Ethereum as a username registration service. Farcaster promises users a direct and uncensorable relationship with their audience. It promises developers permissionless access to all content on the network, no API required.

In this conversation Dan walks me through the early days at Coinbase, and what he learned interfacing with global banks. We discuss the technical architecture of Farcaster, and how its security model maximizes decentralization while limiting risk for users’ Ethereum assets. Instacaster.xyz developer Zach Terrell joins the show to lend his perspective as a builder working with the Farcaster protocol.

Few things in this world are more challenging than launching a successful new communications network, but Dan’s design for Farcaster is an exciting attempt to recreate the open and permissionless access of Web1, with the trustless assumptions enabled by blockchain and the rest of the Web3 technology stack. I hope you enjoy the show.

If you would like to join Farcaster, sent Dan a DM on Twitter.