Welcome to Farcaster! Here are some common questions we get from new users:
“Farcaster” is a reference to the 1989 science fiction novel “Hyperion” by American author Dan Simmons. In the novel, a farcaster is a means of transportation which allows one to travel immense distances instantaneously, without any time delay. Farcaster’s logo is also inspired by this idea.
Farcaster was founded in 2021 by Dan Romero (@dwr) and Varun Srinivasan (@v)
The purple check mark indicates users who have set their profile photo (pfp) to an NFT in a connected Ethereum address. More information on how to do that can be found here.
Posting messages (casting / casts) to the Farcaster Protocol is completely free. All messages on Farcaster live off-chain, so there is no fee associated with writing to the protocol.