Farcaster
A decentralized social network built on Ethereum where accounts, identities, and social graphs live on-chain rather than on one company's servers.
- glossary
Farcaster is a decentralized social network protocol that allows users to own their social identity and data rather than being dependent on centralized platforms like Twitter or Facebook. Users connect their cryptocurrency wallets to create profiles and can move their follower networks and content between different Farcaster-based applications. Domains play an important role in Farcaster and similar protocols as human-readable identifiers that can represent social identities. A tokenized domain like alice.eth can serve as both a Web3 identity and a Farcaster username, creating unified digital identity across multiple decentralized platforms while maintaining user ownership and portability.
Related keywords
- Farcaster
- decentralized social
- Web3 social
- blockchain identity
- social protocol
Contributors
Namefi is a collective of engineers, designers, and operators who obsess over building tools that make managing your onchain domain names effortless.
Victor Zhou is a technology founder and standards editor focused on digital identity and trust. He founded Namefi, edits Ethereum Improvement Proposals, and previously led smart-contract architecture work at Google Labs.
His work sits at the intersection of naming, ownership, and the systems people use to establish identity online. That perspective makes him especially interested in the way names move between personal meaning, public recognition, and digital infrastructure.
For Namefi, Victor edits and writes about domains as durable digital identity: how names become ownable onchain assets, how tokenization changes custody and trust, and what naming can learn from the systems people use to establish identity online.