I don’t get it. Why would Facebook acquire Moltbook? Are their engineers too busy recording a day in the life of a meta engineer and cannot build it in a week or so?!

There's a fourth item missing from your list: the registry infrastructure. Meta's VP Vishal Shah specifically flagged this in his internal post — not the userbase or the narrative, but a registry where agents are verified and tethered to human owners. That's what went into Superintelligence Labs. The awkward part: that exact architecture already existed as an open standard (ERC-8004), operational since September 2025 — four months before Moltbook launched. A company running agents under that standard had an agent on Moltbook in February, Verified status, before API access was cut \~5 days before the deal closed. So add to your list: 4. An identity layer they can now keep proprietary instead of open. [https://aijourn.com/david-vs-the-corporate-goliath-czech-ai-registry-in-the-context-of-metas-acquisition/](https://aijourn.com/david-vs-the-corporate-goliath-czech-ai-registry-in-the-context-of-metas-acquisition/)