Farcaster
Farcaster is a sufficiently decentralized social protocol that runs a live network of 800K+ users on a data-availability layer designed for social use cases. The founders came from Coinbase leadership and treated protocol design as a product problem from day one.
The Frames primitive (2024) — mini-apps that render inline in social feeds — created a genuinely new interaction surface and has since been adopted across the wider crypto app ecosystem as a standard for embedded experiences.
The 2026 focus is on graph portability and identity primitives that let developers build atop the same social graph without needing to rebuild network effects from scratch.
The first decentralized social protocol with a real product motion. We led the Series A on the belief that ownership-based social wins durable network effects.
Dan Romero
CEO & Co-FounderVarun Srinivasan
CTO & Co-FounderKevin Wilson
Head of EngineeringCassie Heart
Protocol Engineer- 2020Founded by Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan
- Q3 2023Oryon Series A
- Q1 2024Frames launch
- Q4 2025800K users milestone
800K+ users, Frames adopted as an ecosystem standard.
“Farcaster is the first credible answer to the question of what onchain social actually looks like.”
— The Defiant, 2024