FarcasterFarcaster X Account Says Network School Has Acquired It
The official Farcaster account on X posted on Oct 15, 2026, that Network School has acquired Farcaster, linking to a follow-up post. Network School is the network-state education project founded by Balaji Srinivasan (author of "The Network State").
- The announcement is a brief post with no disclosed terms, timeline, or role details.
- It follows Farcaster's January 2026 acquisition by Neynar, which took over the protocol contracts, the Farcaster app, and Clanker from Merkle Manufactory.
No further confirmation or detail from either Farcaster or Network School was immediately available.
Farcaster
Farcaster is a protocol for building decentralized social apps. It is a sufficiently decentralized protocol where users control their data, and developers can build apps permissionlessly on the network.
