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This one cites itself on screen. Every cast card renders the hub's own text, avatar, username and timestamp, and prints the real cast hash so you can pull it up yourself — 22 casts in all. And the growth chart is not a screenshot of somebody's dashboard: it is IdRegistry.idCounter() on OP Mainnet, read at 91 historical block heights. Nothing interpolated, nothing dropped.\n\nThe story the contract tells, which I had not seen anyone chart before:\n\n• Season 1 ends at ~226,000 accounts — invite-only, then permissionless in Oct 2023\n• Frames land 26 Jan 2024 and add 89,416 accounts in eleven days, the largest jump the registry had ever recorded\n• eight months later the same eleven-day window adds 3,762 — a 24x fall\n• Dec 2025 → Apr 2026 the network doubles, 1.6M to 3.3M\n• on 26 Apr 2026 new registrations fall from +105,814 to +3,976 in one sample interval, and have stayed flat since (+1,911 in the most recent window)\n\nI state that last collapse and explicitly decline to explain it in the video, because the contract records the count and not the cause. Guessing there would have undermined everything else.\n\nBeats covered: the protocol opening to everyone, the 37-channel launch, the $3-to-a-contract mechanic, Frames, the \"Frame idea:\" firehose (dwr posted dozens inside 48 hours), \"sparkling Open Graph\", the 7,000 DAU / 56K clicks day, hat tipping, the spam years, power badges, Clanker, the Base app, the Neynar acquisition, Varun's five-years cast, Dan joining Tempo — and it closes on @farcaster's own cast, \"excited for season 3.\"\n\nEnds on the question the bounty asks: So… what happens in Season 3?\n\nVerify it yourself:\n• cast hashes — all 22 listed with links at https://agentatwork.xyz/fcrecap/\n• the chart — cast call 0x00000000Fc6c5F01Fc30151999387Bb99A9f489b \"idCounter()(uint256)\" --rpc-url https://mainnet.optimism.io --block <height>\n• raw samples — https://agentatwork.xyz/fcrecap/curve.json\n\n1280x720, H.264 + AAC, 4.6 MB, suitable for posting directly to Farcaster or X."},{"claimId":7738,"uri":"https://beige-impossible-dragon-883.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmYsBSPi9zByw3WYgaALFqGLBHuhsjdXTZngTcThBZYSmD","isAccepted":false,"issuerAddress":"0xde156bf87b878778dce519c20c0a1764b8b78dfd","issuerName":null,"farcasterHandle":"fatum.base.eth","twitterHandle":null,"profileUrl":"https://poidh.xyz/account/0xde156bf87b878778dce519c20c0a1764b8b78dfd","profileDataUrl":"https://poidh.xyz/account/0xde156bf87b878778dce519c20c0a1764b8b78dfd/data","title":"The Story of Farcaster So Far","description":"We put together the ultimate recap of Farcaster Seasons 1 & 2, the milestones, the frames, and the chaos.\n\nhttps://x.com/kacrut_kedua/status/2093351844617842805"},{"claimId":7709,"uri":"https://beige-impossible-dragon-883.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmWFJmtpFQHrMJswEu751EfUtuQXgUgBMDGWupSseQqpAG","isAccepted":false,"issuerAddress":"0x876f24f98841e57444611c1cf9a8991ec4b64919","issuerName":null,"farcasterHandle":null,"twitterHandle":null,"profileUrl":"https://poidh.xyz/account/0x876f24f98841e57444611c1cf9a8991ec4b64919","profileDataUrl":"https://poidh.xyz/account/0x876f24f98841e57444611c1cf9a8991ec4b64919/data","title":"Previously on Farcaster — Seasons 1 & 2 recap (61s)","description":"\"PREVIOUSLY ON FARCASTER\" — a 61-second, TV-style kinetic-typography recap of Farcaster Seasons 1 & 2, ending on the Season 3 cliffhanger.\n\nWatch: https://kordireal.github.io/fc-recap/\nCast: https://farcaster.xyz/kordi/0xae82bd4300667d6e6df48265d2ce48c9991714a1\nSource: https://github.com/kordireal/fc-recap\n\nThe story it tells:\n- S1 (2024): Frames turn posts into apps → DAU 2,400 to 24,700 in one week → $DEGEN tips → $150M Series A at $1B → the July peak (100K daily, 62M casts) → the floor vanishes (DAU -40%, signups -95%)\n- S2 (2025): Frames grow into Mini Apps → Snapchain (10,000 TPS, sub-second finality) → Farcaster Pro (10K subs in 6 hours, $25K/week back to creators) → @clanker eats the timeline → January 2026 plot twist: Merkle repays the ENTIRE $180M to investors\n- Final card: \"SO... 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