Brian Li
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Brian Li
@brianli101
🏗 founder at @frenslol, @ycombinator W20, @DukeU

Given some rumors, wanted to post a few clarifications: Farcaster is not shutting down. The protocol works and will continue to work. There were 250,000 MAU in December and over 100,000 funded wallets. The acquirer, Neynar, is a venture-backed startup and plans to shift Farcaster in a more developer-focused direction. As for Merkle, we’re planning to return the full $180M raised back to investors. Over the last 5 years, we tried to be a good steward of investor capital. Finally, I bought my house with Coinbase IPO proceeds.













A $PNKSTR learning: someone created another pool that doesn’t extract fees during the swap and bypasses the value accrual mechanism. Matcha is already routing there for some trades to get better prices on buys. This will dampen the collected fees within a +/-10% range



