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Romero: Farcaster Sold 10,000 $120 Subscriptions in Under Six Hours

Dan Romero · Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows · May 31, 2025 · at 1:43:01

Dan Romero, co-founder of Farcaster, discusses the launch of Farcaster Pro and how protocol revenue is allocated to creator rewards.

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“We sold 10,120 dollar subscriptions with stable coins in a little less than six hours. The hundred percent of the revenue we're generating, so this is kind of like for the protocol, is going back into, to creator rewards. So effectively, we've doubled the amount of, like, weekly payouts we're gonna do for the next year.”

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The claim, plainly

Farcaster sold 10,000 $120 subscriptions in stablecoins in less than six hours, with 100% of the revenue allocated to creator rewards, doubling weekly creator payouts for the next year.

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Assessment

The claim bundles three specific assertions. Two of the three legs are fully verified by on-chain records and protocol reports: in late May 2025, Farcaster Pro sold out its initial batch of 10,000 subscriptions at $120 (in USDC/stablecoins) in under six hours ($1.2 million total), and 100% of this revenue was routed via a Tier Registry contract to creator reward pools. However, the third leg—that this doubled weekly creator payouts over the subsequent 12 months—failed to materialize. Pre-launch weekly creator reward payouts were approximately $25,000+ in USDC; independent tracking throughout late 2025 and 2026 indicated weekly distribution pools remained around $25,000+ (peaking slightly above $25,000) rather than doubling to the projected ~$50,000 weekly rate across the year ending May 31, 2026.

Farcaster Pro launched May 27–28, 2025 at $120 per year (120 USDC) and the initial batch of 10,000 subscriptions sold out in under 6 hours, generating $1.2M.
Protocol documentation and smart contract architecture confirmed 100% of subscription revenue was dedicated to funding weekly creator and developer reward pools.
Baseline weekly payouts prior to May 2025 were $25,000+ in USDC, and independent ecosystem tracking through May 2026 recorded that weekly payouts remained around $25,000+ at peak rather than doubling to $50,000/week.

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Dan Romero "creator rewards" Farcaster 2025 "Farcaster" "10,000" "$120" subscriptions stablecoins Farcaster 10000 120 subscriptions creator rewards "Farcaster Pro" Dune creator rewards weekly USDC

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