In less than 1 month @base delivered : 1. @base Meme Summit ( for bringing the OG Meme communities in front door) 2. @gmgnai Global Championship ( Base Track ) 3. Trenchers Grant ( for those heroes & independent creators who always participated , pushed and revived trenches on @base ) So - It's never been late to start trenching, Don't fade @base 🟦

BM Trenchers 🟦🔥 Finally back from spending some times with family 💙🙌 Heard there's a lot to ape on @base ?👀

BM Chads 🟦🙌 Will be there, are you?

Hey @jessepollak Sir, I hope you'll take a moment to read this. 🫡🙏 [ I'm sharing it with respect for "you" and the mission that brought "me" to @base. ] I don't want to leave @base ,but after "111 days" of continious live discussion and years of exploring this ecosystem , I need a reason to keep going. You once said “farmers are people too.” You spoke about helping people move from farming a potential $BASE airdrop to becoming builders, creators, traders and onboarders who contribute real value in this ecosystem. Those words always stayed with me. That is why I chose to explore more the @base ecosystem instead of simply farming $BASE. I wanted to understand what was being built,how was it built, find early-stage protocols, study their products, and bring those discoveries to people through practical live discussions. For past 111 consecutive days, I hosted daily "X" Spaces around the @base ecosystem through my own observation - that's almost 4 month nonstop. 4–5 hours of daily work. Researching, preparing, hosting and writing detailed recaps. That's roughly 444–555 hours of effort across 111 days, "before counting the rest of my community work". I published 250+ pieces of content across X and 120+ on Reddit, covering projects, product mechanics, ecosystem developments and early-stage opportunities. I stayed at #1 in r/BASE for three consecutive months. I also contributed more than 1,000 messages across @base Discord. My goal was never to repeat announcements or post another generic bullish take. I wanted to discover protocols early, understand how they actually worked, and discuss them live in a practical way. My "Space Recaps" were detailed guides, not generic summaries, so people who missed a Space could still learn something useful from it. I kept showing up even when large parts of Crypto Twitter turned negative on @base after you acknowledged that the bet on the creator economy had been wrong. I didn't believe every decision was perfect. I believed the ecosystem was bigger than one failed bet, and that there were still things worth discovering and people worth supporting. So I continued. Then came the conversations that made me believe this effort might eventually lead somewhere. @AhaanRaizada , you once told me it was good to see us consistently contributing to help grow Base from the ground up. @saxenasaheb , when I said the effort felt one-sided, you told me: “Amazing work so far.” You advised me to keep sharing my work on Base Discord and X, and said: “Ecosystem recognition will find you.” I took those words seriously. I kept working. But encouragement in private messages and meaningful recognition of the work itself are two different things. Despite everything I have put out, I haven't seen consistent, meaningful engagement with my effort from the @base team or a clear path forward that would make this effort feel valued. I then applied for the Creator Grant. The programme's guidelines included creators running independent shows and hosting Spaces among the eligible formats. That was exactly the kind of work I had already been doing. I applied because I wanted to take the initiative further. But I never received the support or outcome I had hoped that opportunity might bring. And now, the Base Advocate Program has ended. I was never an Advocate but I was trying to earn that opportunity. Watching the programme close while still trying to find my place in this ecosystem has left me asking a difficult question : Where does someone like me go from here? I want to acknowledge @cb03c66 and @0xKacperrr0 here. When we started hosting these Spaces, they supported us and kept bringing energy along the way. That support mattered, especially on the days when continuing took more effort than people could see. I'm grateful to the people who stood beside us. specially @biewen_ @svmvn @SanjeebDas44977 @78Yashuweb3 @Yogendra00077 @gojo0204hm @henry58290 @janmd07 @gen69gg @Little_Dogx @liquidityXBT @zyrex2608 💙🙏 But I won't pretend this doesn't hurt. I know nobody owes me a role, a grant or special treatment simply because I worked hard. I'm not asking for a guaranteed reward. I'm asking whether the work of grassroots contributors actually has a place in the ecosystem they're helping to grow ? We all are human beings behind these usernames. We have limited time, with our own struggles and responsibilities, and we put real pieces of our lives into the communities we believe in. When people keep contributing for months, they shouldn't have to wonder indefinitely whether anybody sees the work - or whether the only way to be noticed is to stop doing it. I don't want to leave @base 😫😑. I still believe there is something worth building here. I still want to explore protocols, host meaningful discussions, publish useful research and help more people understand the ecosystem. But passion cannot be the only reason to keep giving 4–5 hours of every day, indefinitely, without a clear direction. @jessepollak , your words were one of the reasons I started this journey. And They're also one of the reasons I kept going when sentiment turned against @base. I'm not asking you to promise me anything. I'm asking you to give me a reason to keep contributing. Because I don't want these 111 days ( and everything behind them) - to just become a story about someone who believed in the mission, kept showing up, and eventually became too exhausted to continue. I still want to build around @base and already started building "Meralith" ( an agentic OS ). I just need to know whether people like me have a place in the future we're helping to build ? @jessepollak 🫡