FarCon Asia, Asia’s first large-scale Farcaster ecosystem offline event, will be held in Singapore on September 17

In the past few years, many development teams have been constantly exploring and trial-and-error in the field of Web3 social networking, striving to open up new paths. In this fierce competition, the decentralized social protocol Farcaster stood out and became the most eye-catching dark horse in 2024. In October 2023, Farcaster announced that it had achieved 1% permissionless use, officially opening a new era of Web3 social networking. In May 2024, Farcaster developer Merkle Manufactory successfully completed a new round of financing with a total financing amount of US$150 million. The company's valuation jumped to US$1 billion, officially joining the ranks of unicorn companies.

After ten months of development, there are already hundreds of projects in the Farcaster ecosystem, including mature clients, data analysis tools, decentralized applications (dApps), protocol frameworks (Frames), and API tools.

In May this year, FarCon2024 was successfully held in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, USA. The Farcaster team, major ecological projects, well-known developers and active high-quality users all attended the event. Decentralized ecological participants include Farcaster co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasa, Base creator and protocol director Jesse Pollak, Paragraph founder Colin, Degen founder Jacek, Moxie founder Jason, Tako Protocol co-founder TonyW, Talent Protocol co-founder Fillpe Macedo, Open Frames builder David, Story Protocol founder Jason Zhao; supporting project parties and VCs include Messari CEO Ryan Selkis, a16z partner Sriram Krishna, Paradigm's Matt Huang, 1confirmation's Mike, Multicoin Capital's Eliqian, Coinbase's Aneri, etc. Related event review: 《FarCon 2024 Los Angeles Highlights: Focus on Creator Economy》

The FarCon atmosphere on the other side of the ocean is strong, and the successful offline exchanges make us believe that decentralized social networking has a promising future. It is time for the world to join this innovation. Coinciding with the Token2049 being held in Singapore, Tako Protocol and BlockBeats sincerely invite all friends in the industry in Asia who are passionate about Web3 social networking and its future development to discuss, communicate and cooperate together to promote the way forward for decentralized social networking.

Farcaster Ecosystem Offline Event in Asia to be Held in Singapore

From September 16 to 17, Tako Protocol, BlockBeats and Jam will jointly host the first large-scale Farcaster Ecosystem offline event in Asia, which will be held at the famous The Art House in Singapore. The conference aims to deeply explore and showcase the innovative achievements of the Farcaster ecosystem and the future prospects of Web3 social networking, break the stereotype of one-way output in traditional financial encryption conferences, convey a new narrative perspective, and show the multifaceted possibilities of the encryption industry. Encryption is not limited to finance. In addition to the Farcaster ecosystem builders mentioned above, FarCon Asia also sincerely invites other projects focusing on the decentralized social track to participate, explore new social models together, and release the charm of decentralization.

This FarCon Asia conference is expected to attract more than 500 participants, Farcaster ecosystem builders, active users of the Farcaster ecosystem in Asia, VCs and well-known investors, senior researchers, etc. will attend the event. They include: Farcaster founder Dan Romero, community main contributor Ted, Base creator and protocol director Jesse Pollak, A16Z crypto investment partner Jane Lippencott, Mask founder Suji, Cyber founder Ryan, Degencast team member Liang, Farhouse founder Ramit Agarwal, Fartracker team, Eigen Labs developer relations director Nader Dabit, Degen head Jacek, senior Farcaster researcher 0xluo, etc. They will focus on bringing a new social experience to the market and sharing the most valuable and meaningful development and opportunities in the ecosystem.

There are also many well-known industry pioneers and VCs in the Web3 industry, including:

Andrei Grachev, Executive Partner of DWF Labs

Cheryl Chan, Partner of Dragonfly

David Toh, Managing Partner of Mirana Ventures

JIng, Head of Development of Monad Ecosystem

Rice, Head of Mantle Network SocialFi

PiPi, Head of Taiko Social and Gaming

Sarah, Head of BNB Chain Asia Pacific

Yawn, Co-founder of StepN

Terence Kwok, Founder of Humanity Protocol

Mac Budkowski, Co-founder of Kiwi News

Filipe Macedo, Co-founder of Talent Protocol

Deployer, Founder of Ham.Fun

Limone, Co-founder of Shift

In addition, members of well-known projects such as Berachain, Zee Prime Capital, DengenPad, PhiLand, Pudgy Penguins, and Base Global Community participated in the event or presented their project results and shared their recent progress on site.

In addition to the above-mentioned Web3 industry leaders, this event also had Gracie Hartie, a well-known Web2 KOL and OnlyFans creator representative, to share.

FarCon Asia Agenda

9.16 Welcome Party (Invitation Only)

Time: 19:00 - 23:00

Venue: Molly Malone’s Irish Pub, 56 Circular Road, Singapore 049411

Join Asia’s largest Farcaster gathering for sunset drinks, relaxed conversation and dialogue with founders, creators and investors.

9.17 FarCon Asia officially opens

Time: 12:00

Location: The Art House

Opening speech by organizer Tako & Jam

Farcaster founder Dan Romero AMA (dialogue with TED)

Base core developer Jesse Pollak (fireside chat)

Wonderful roundtable discussion

13:00-14:00

Panel 1 Building Decentralized Social Networks: Challenges and Opportunities

Roundtable Moderator and Guests

Jane Lippencott -A16Z

Nader Dabit - Eigen Labs

Suji - Mask Network

Tony- Tako

David Toh - Mirana Ventures

Rapolas - Zee Prime

14:15-15:15

Panel 2 Building on Farcaster for tomorrow: What's next?

Roundtable host and guests

Undefined- Farcards / Mintlub

Nine- Symmetry

Ramit-Farhouse

Liang-Degencast

Degenwtf.eth-DegenPad

Yuki-Checkin

15:30-16:30

Panel 3 Online Social Discussion on Strategies and Inspiration

Foray into Onchain Social: Strategies and Insight

Roundtable host and guests

Pigi - Taiko

Sarah- BNB Chain

Yawn- StepN

Terence Kwok- Humanity Protocol

Sean Lee - Mantle Network

Cheryl Chen- Dragonfly Capital

16:45-17:45

Panel 4 Meme and NFT also have dreams

Memes & NFT: What Dreams Will They Fulfill

Roundtable host and guests

Jingyi - Monad

Giulio - Mon Protocol

Clement Chia - Imaginary Ones

Alice Chen - Story Protocol

Andrei Grachev- DWF Labs

Juliet Su- New Tribe

17:45 - 18:45

Panel 5 Let's Jam Together: Building the Creator Economy

Let's Jam Together: Building the Creator Economy

Roundtable Hosts & Guests

Gregarious - Snickerdoodle

Jack - BlockBeats

Gracie -Content Creator

Luo - Creator

Cyber Shakti - Poster.fun

El - Jam

9.18 After Party

After a day of intense discussion, Farcaster creators, Web3 developers and crypto enthusiasts from around the world will have a free and creative interactive dialogue. On the evening of September 18, get ready for an exciting night at Token2049 Nightopia in Singapore, where crypto and music collide and are sponsored by Rave Dao. The world's top DJs and cutting-edge Web3 technology come together to bring an unforgettable experience. Click here for event details: Singapore Token2049 Nightopia

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About Tako Protocol

The Tako protocol layer is a decentralized and scalable social network protocol that integrates data from different social platforms, such as Farcaster, Lens, Twitter, etc., to provide developers with a unified and convenient development experience, just like building Lego blocks. We call it the "social Lego" module. Flexible APIs, SDKs, and diverse application development cases enable developers to build decentralized social networks and empower the creator economy in a low-threshold and efficient manner. Tako provides permissionless access to its technology, allowing developers to build and publish their own social dApps using different modular "Lego blocks". It aggregates and unifies social graphs while providing basic functions such as SAA login, social asset publishing and trading, content distribution, content dissemination, and peer-to-peer recommendation modules.

TakoCast is a native client based on the Tako protocol and Farcaster. It was initially targeted at the Asia-Pacific market, developing local language clients based on different local needs and user experience, and localizing operations for local communities. By integrating Tako's social abstract accounts with mainstream decentralized social networks, we have achieved cross-network data sharing. This means that once users log in to any Tako client, they can seamlessly interact with users on Farcaster, Lens, and other social networks.

Contact Tako Protocol

https://tako.so/

https://x.com/TakoProtocol

https://t.me/TakoProtocol

https://takocast.xyz/

About BlockBeats

BlockBeats was founded in 2018 and is a research institute and information platform focusing on the Web3 field. We have an independent content creation team covering websites and APP platforms, providing the latest global crypto industry trends. BlockBeats is committed to spreading cutting-edge technology trends, advocating the concept of value investment for a long time, and was the first to introduce the concepts of "Fat Protocol" and "Web3.0" to the Chinese Internet. It is known as the media platform with the most value discovery capabilities in the Chinese Internet. So far, BlockBeats has accumulated millions of loyal users, and about 500,000 global users obtain industry information through its multi-language version App every week.

Contact BlockBeats

https://www.theblockbeats.info

https://x.com/BlockBeatsAsia

https://t.me/BlockBeats_App

https://takocast.xyz/channel/blockbeats/main

About Jam

Jam is an open community of creators. Our mission is to champion creative freedom and unite the creator economy. We created the Jam ACF movement to break down barriers and build bridges so members can come together to innovate and create better content and products. Our app will experiment with creator tools because we want to inspire others to build, create, and contribute to the creator economy.

Contact Jam

https://jam.so/

https://x.com/Jamfrens

https://t.me/Jamfrens

https://takocast.xyz/channel/jamfrens/main

About FarCon Asia

FarCon Asia 2024 is an offline event led by Tako Protocol and co-organized by BlockBeats and Jam, focusing on the Farcast ecosystem. In May this year, the first offline ecological meeting was successfully held in Los Angeles, USA, with more than 100 people attending and enthusiastic response. This event aims to build a platform for communication and dialogue for the Farcaster community in Asia, promote the collision of ideas and share the latest industry innovations.

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