Kimmo Siren says Farcaster should move beyond reliance on a single long-term operator

Kimmo Siren, head of product at Lens and co-founder of Orb, said Farcaster’s more important issue is not who might take over, but how the protocol can reach a stage where it no longer depends on a single long-term operator. In his view, a fully decentralized social protocol should let any client read, write, replay, and verify the full historical record without having to trust one team that runs storage infrastructure or controls validator keys. Siren said improving infrastructure such as Ethereum blobs and EIP-4844 could make it possible to write social data in low-cost batches, let anyone re-host that data, and verify it through on-chain commitments. He said the goal is to build a social state on-chain that is reproducible and verifiable, so the network itself can keep existing even if the management team changes.