Farcaster Announces Major Leadership Change. On January 22, founder Dan Romero announced that Neynar is acquiring Farcaster, and the existing team will gradually transfer protocol agreements, code repositories, the Farcaster app, and all ownership of Clanker to the other party. Neynar will then take over all operational work and introduce a new vision centered around builders.

In the statement, Dan Romero admitted that this was not an easy decision. "Farcaster and everything built on it are very important to us as the founding team. We are proud of what we have created and the成果 built together with the community. But after five years of development, it’s clear that a new direction and new leadership are needed to unlock the full potential of this protocol."

According to the information, some members of the Merkle team (Farcaster’s parent company), co-founder Varun Srinivasan, and Dan Romero himself will gradually step back from daily operations and shift to new projects. As the most critical third-party infrastructure developer in the Farcaster ecosystem, this move signifies that control of the ecosystem is officially tilting toward the core infrastructure provider. The handover is expected to be completed within the next few weeks.