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David Hoffmann

👤 Speaker
595 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Bankless
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I mean, wallet first approach rather than social approach, whereas previously they would have been reversed.

Bankless
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They were a social network with a wallet.

Bankless
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They had pretty big ambitions around this, and they've been doing it for five years, and they've built through multiple bear markets.

Bankless
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I don't think it's a good take to say that they haven't tried.

Bankless
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This is Dan.

Bankless
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He said, the goal has always been to build an ad-scale decentralized social networking protocol with one billion people using it every day.

Bankless
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They were trying to get to Twitter-level usage and saturation.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

How are they doing that?

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

Well, it's Twitter.

Bankless
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But it's decentralized was the take.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

You own, as a user, you own your own property.

Bankless
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Any client can build on top of it.

Bankless
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We're protocol first.

Bankless
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That was the pitch.

Bankless
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And it didn't take off.

Bankless
ROLLUP: Rate Cuts! | ZK Breakthroughs | Farcaster’s Pivot | SEC Onchain | NYT’s Stablecoin FUD

And I'm curious your thoughts on, like, why it didn't take off.

Bankless
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Because I do think they genuinely tried.

Bankless
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And they aren't the only team that has tried.

Bankless
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And there's been, like, Lens Protocol.

Bankless
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There's been a number of crypto social networks that tried.