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aerodrome-finance:native looks good here. The only base native token that’s worth investing with upcoming upgrade in a month or so.

Aero is set for takeoff 🛫 Launch date and details here: aero.xyz/articles/aero-launc…

Ppl forget that @grok launched a coin on @base

aerodrome-finance:native looks good here. The only base native token that’s worth investing with upcoming upgrade in a month or so.

I decided rather than chilling to instead make my life incredibly stressful and busy so now i am responsible for trading products at Coinbase (CB app / Pro / Baseapp / etc). I cant explain why I did this except I like the opportunity to make something actually good more than I like playing Factorio. So ye maybe I’m an idiot, let’s find out

lots of conversations about base over the last week. wanted to share my candid take after a week of listening and a lot of reflection over the last 6 months. first off - in case it’s not obvious, the first quarter of 2026 was a punch in the face. I spent 2024 and 2025 making a two pronged bet to bring base to the world: (1) builders would unlock the next wave of crypto adoption; (2) adoption would be driven by new onchain-native social experiences - creators, content, messaging. imo we made the right bet on builders, but obviously the wrong bet on social. builders did drive the next wave of crypto adoption - prediction markets, perpetuals, stablecoins - but social was not at the center of it. in fact, the entire social side of the market that many of us had been building towards - farcaster, zora, miniapps, and yes, creator coins - disintegrated completely. I was wrong - whether it was timing wrong (is $ansem a creator coin?) or fully wrong, only time will tell, but regardless, i was definitively wrong. the collateral damage was pretty bad! and this year has been an exercise in eating shit. we realized how our focus on social had meant that base had fallen behind in key areas that were now increasingly critical - we had perps (shoutout avantis!) and prediction markets (shoutout limitless!), but both were well behind scaled competitors. and we had a lot of room to improve in unlocking base as a platform for tokenization and payments that really worked for enterprises. people lost confidence, and CT spectators reminded me weekly of all of my mistakes as often as they could. it felt bad man, still feels bad. but if there’s one thing i’ve learned from the last decade of building in this space, it’s that when things feel the worst, the best thing to do is just put your head down and build. so that’s what i’m doing. I refocused my time and attention back to the chain away from the app, started writing code again, shipped a bunch of stuff (azul, beryl, b20, privacy, ledgers) and questioned a bunch of my assumptions: does crypto need social to grow? does base need an app? can base be bigger than coinbase? I thought for a long time that social was the only thing that could drive the sort of viral growth to get crypto to a billion people. unsurprisingly, I now believe that’s wrong. It’s clear that better money is more than enough - we are seeing this live with stablecoins, predictions, perpetuals, tokenization and i only expect it to accelerate. I am now focused on bringing a billion people onchain just by making global finance actually work. on the app, my focus is on building base into the blockchain for global finance. to that end, i’ve handed the base app back to the coinbase mothership, where my now good friend @cobie will be taking it from here to make it the best damn app for onchain you’ve ever seen, including expanding beyond the base ecosystem in ways that tbh i won’t love as the leader of base. it’s incredibly hard to grow a decentralized network inside of a big public corporation. and i feel like much of the discourse on CT over the last week is downstream of this. the following things can be true: (1) base (and i) love memes and (2) brian probably won’t ever bullpost memes on the tl (this activity is illegal once you’re over 40 years of age). it’s weird and we’re working through it as we continue to decentralize base, which has been our commitment from the beginning. we’re going to build base into the blockchain for global finance and do everything we can to be the place that the world’s money settles over the next century. we will surely have formidable competitors (welcome robinhood and stripe!) and people may abandon our cause, but we welcome the competition and believe it’s our duty to win the respect and commitment of those who rally to our banner.  in 2026, this concretely means three things: winning trading, payments, and agents. [continued in the reply]

Ronin (RONIN) has announced their network migration to a new Ethereum L2. Coinbase will not execute the migration of these assets on behalf of customers and if you hold RONIN action is required. Coinbase will suspend trading of RONIN on March 30, 2026, on or after 2PM ET. What does this mean for you? Read more in the thread 👇

three learnings from me in 2025: 1. sometimes i can be too far in the future. coming into the year, I wanted to take a shot to bring more people onchain. and I saw the creator economy as a 100x opportunity to do exactly that. but in leaning all the way into creators with the base app, i jumped too far ahead. by overfocusing on this emerging segment, i think we overshadowed the core of builders and traders. i continue to believe deeply in bringing the creator economy onchain and the importance of non-financial use cases ... but i think the reality is that it’s going to take years to bring everyone onchain and we need to build there incrementally. and that means making the base app work really well for traders and builders first, and earning the right to expand the aperture. in parallel, the ecosystem will continue to cook on creators, social, and other non-financial use cases and we'll drive distribution to them. 2. trading is the chain’s biggest area for growth. base has established itself as the best place for builders — but one of the biggest opportunities is that our liquidity and trading economy is still maturing. as a builder platform, issuing new assets and enabling trading of them are the thing with the most product market fit and it's clear there's so much more growth we can drive there. i think some of this is downstream of the fact that i've never been a professional trader, so i've had less natural empathy for both traders themselves and what makes a great trading platform. but i'm learning fast and we're already seeing the positive results of this focus. we are going to make base the most trusted, liquid, powerful trading economy in the world. tons more upside ahead. 3. growing the decentralized bench of base leaders and the tools they have to lift up the ecosystem is absolutely critical. base started inside coinbase and we've been gradually decentralizing since day 1. in 2025, we made big strides like achieving stage 1 and decentralizing our security council, but we have a ton more work to do. and one of the biggest opportunities is continuing to decentralize culturally. the more voices and capital allocators we have that are rowing in the same direction — growing the base economy — the faster and better we will all grow together. this means giving people a platform (with distribution + capital) and the tools to measure and scale their impact. success means that what the base core team does matters less and what empowered individuals and teams do matters more. this is a major priority for me personally — and if you're reading this, I need your help making it happen. if raise your hand, lift up other builders, and deploy capital, i will do everything i can to help you win. we'll be sharing more on the base mission, vision, and strategy next week and i thought this would be a helpful backdrop. one of my favorite values of coinbase’s has always been continuous learning. and 2025 was a year filled with big learnings for me — and i’m fired up to apply them as we grow base in 2026 and beyond. open to more feedback and ideas. day one.

all roads lead to BMX

the @baseapp is now open to everyone now the real work begins base.app

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