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Decentralized social network Farcaster is trying to reach mass adoption through Web 2.0 techniques

More often than not, it’s rare for crypto native users to have an easy, quick onboarding experience. Farcaster wants to change that.

The biggest application on Farcaster is Warpcast, a platform with designs like X or Reddit’s, allowing users to write posts, or “casts,” and do other functions like mint NFTs, claim tokens and transact. And for those concerned about scams or malicious attacks, Romero said on X in late January that its authorization system that’s baked into the ecosystem eliminates security risks and is “not spooftable.” (Of course, hackers will test that claim more frequently as the network itself grows.) While Farcaster is enjoying quick growth today, we’ll need to see more data over a longer period of time before we can declare it a winner in its own right, let alone something that could change the trajectory of mainstream crypto adoption.

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