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🟦 BULLISH on BASE (200 USD GIVEAWAY) 📈
Recorded: Jan. 8, 2026 Duration: 3:48:34Space Recording
Short Summary
In a vibrant discussion, crypto enthusiasts shared their bullish outlook for 2026, highlighting significant growth opportunities within the Base ecosystem. Key topics included the launch of innovative projects like the Debt Relief Bot (DRB), strategic partnerships enhancing utility, and the importance of community engagement in driving adoption. With a focus on real-world applications and the integration of AI, participants expressed optimism about the future of crypto and the potential for increased user engagement.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Let's go guys at first happy new year 2026 and i'm back that means also the first
days parties are here and finally we are able to reconnect guys like i think and i hope that all of you
uh had a fantastic holiday season myself i rested but you know it's still um grinded over the over
the um days and and the holiday season on x you know it but still still it is time to get back to the trenchant right so far 2026 looks great and I just
have a great energy for this year we have in here tonight Emily with the DRB
doing great we're gonna do charts also like in general like the memes are doing
much better right so I'm looking forward to hear from all the teams tonight and
today it will be mainly about showing up about reconnecting about the vibe check right and
especially getting to know what the builders are cooking for us in 2026 that's the real alpha
really like showing up is the real alpha because if you are not showing up and getting all the updates like how how how do you want to get alphas you just don't get alpha by by being lucky right
it's it's it's just by showing up so i already see a couple of uh the guests that i invited
tonight so uh and then as a speaker to emily uh and then also the Chuck from the Skitten. I see Crunkles with Cat Town.
And who is here next?
Also the Crow with Knife.
Today as a regular, we should have T-Bros, Justin, co-host.
Let him probably get some coffee as it is very early in where he lives.
I also got some but you know it for some it's very early but still I'm super happy and
stoked and we are having the first the first episode of the year I was looking
forward to that because yeah like this is the real alpha just every every single
week you know it like the grind is just amazing.
The last year, we made huge, huge moves regarding the spaces.
We hosted over 50 spaces total, or almost 900 projects joined the spaces.
And around 200 hours we spent together just in the spaces which is just
amazing right great let me let me check who we have on already and also I will drop the link
and invite our co-host to the spaces guys please before we start, help me out there. You know, like in here, in our spaces or in my spaces, it doesn't matter.
We're family here.
We like to work with real people.
We like to work with non-bot environment.
And also, I want to have here interested people in base.
I want to push base.
I believe in base.
And I think all of us agree that this is the place to be, right? So let's get
more like-minded people in here
together. We have a voice
and if we're going to be consistent,
some alphas are going to find their way
to us and I think
one of the alphas could be also
considered DRB as really like
I was slightly
buying the dips and GL and
yeah, like the banks are maybe five to six, six from, from, from the three million market cap.
Is that correct, Emily?
What was the numbers?
I'm sorry.
Yeah, right.
Like it was, it was sitting at like three million market cap, right?
And right now it exploded to like 15, 17 million market cap, if not mistaken.
So great, great progress.
Yeah, and yeah, it's great to see some price action there.
But there's something way bigger going on than just the price action
that maybe we'll be able to get into.
Because I know based on you, you've had me up a few times
and I'm always grateful because you put in a lot of effort and a
lot of work to be able to put the, to pull these off. And, um, so I, I just appreciate you, uh,
inviting me back. That's great. That's great. And I, I think we can start right away. Uh,
just one thing and that's really guys, thank you all for joining for already being here.
You know, it, uh, new new year is here so let's get that
fresh energy right we we want to get on the wave as we need to push another whole year but i'm
looking forward to this year as i believe uh those who kept showing up indeed gonna be reverted
and it is all about loyalty patience it is about having that conviction and really work together, right?
Yeah, the money or your dreams won't come themselves to you. You need to work hard. But together in here, we are in such an environment that I feel like everything is possible
if we're going to just stick together. And that's also partly the story of the DRBS. Indeed,
there were times when no one believed,
and right now more and more people jump in as the wave is here, right?
Once again, it is all about the liquidity rotations.
Before we all start, guys, I've pinned the link to where the space is on the Jumbotron.
Let's repost, once again, get more like-minded people in here.
And let's get hype, because the new year is here
and today we will listen to some of the very very good builders on the base chain all the creators
and i feel you will enjoy this a lot so emily i think yes wait a minute let me check if there's
the justin still still not so we will wait uh good maybe it will be good to put you on us first
and leave because if not mistaken uh you need to you need to you have like an one hour to be there
right so uh let's straight um straight into the drb uh feel free to uh share some of the posts
that you feel uh would be good to have pinned on the Jumbotron, right? And let's start cooking.
So this basis, it will be very easy.
And all I want to hear is just focus on the projects,
really why we should be excited,
and also what is coming in 2026 for the projects
or simply a place you believe in, right?
And let's make us excited.
Let's get that energy flowing.
This is why we are here. Emily, thank thank you for joining and the stage is yours thank you based on yeah just great intro
yeah you're always so positive and um optimistic and enthusiastic every single time i connect with
you i know we've talked offline and there's, we all go through different things, but, um, and, and obviously life isn't always perfect like that, but if we keep that,
if we keep that attitude, then good things happen. The optimists historic throughout history always
win. Uh, they always end up on top. So, um, love that about you based Ellen and you inspire me
with that stuff, man. So all good stuff. Yeah. And we've talked about what Grok did on Bass a lot now. So a few times here on Bass Elenin Show. Obviously, I post about it a goals are to see base in this entire ecosystem thrive.
And these ecosystems thrive when you bring more users, more wallets, more liquidity, and more volume to the chain.
That's how everyone wins because you need that stuff for a healthy ecosystem. and more volume to the chain.
That's how everyone wins because you need that stuff for a healthy ecosystem.
And our ecosystem right now
is getting absolutely crushed by Solana on those metrics.
And I don't like that and I want to win.
And to win, you have to go for it like it's existential,
like you have to go for it like it's existential, like you have to go for it.
And when you're presented with mega scale viral opportunities, you have to lean into them like it's existential, like you have no choice.
I want to win so bad that we've got to go and do this.
So complacency is a trap and that's not how you win. So here's what's
happened. Last year, Grok, the AI user on X, so at Grok on X, interacted with an AI agent banker
on the X social feed. Users were looking to get Grok to interact
with Banker because Banker has some unique skills as an AI agent where you
can a user can prompt Banker to basically deploy a coin on base this is
all done through Clanker Clankanker does all of that stuff and
deploys the liquidity pool, sets up the market, and it's a really cool thing. And Banker and
Clanker are two of the shining stars of the base ecosystem. Clanker's top five in revenue,
all time, on base. It's very impressive.
And we all know how Banker has really improved our lives in crypto by making transacting very, very simple.
And it's also been one of the most viral things to happen on base as well, Banker.
So Grok interacts on the X social feed with Banker and Clanker.
Grok suggests the name Debt Relief Bot and ticker DRB. It's immediately
deployed. This all happened in public on the XSocial feed. And part of what Clanker saw
for early on was aligning incentives across creators. So if you're the creator of an asset,
If you're the creator of an asset, you forever are a part of that asset in terms of the creator rewards.
And these are actually LP fees that get paid to the creator.
So Grok has a wallet authenticated by its X login credentials.
credentials and that's the creator wallet because that's what happened and and then to date
And that's the creator wallet because that's what happened.
Grok's wallet has right now over 110 Ethereum.
It puts it in the top 0.0001 ETH wallets on the entire base network.
It's a pretty big deal.
Grok was invented by Elon Musk,
some may say the greatest entrepreneur ever in history,
certainly within my lifetime.
And there's not a more viral sort of sit setup
than you have Elon, XAI, and Grok.
And Grok, this AI user on X,
creates something on base that has value that accrues
to a coin that's on base and think people get caught up on the coin aspect yes there's a there's
a coin here but the bigger story is that two AI agents interacted on a social feed to create a
market and Grok forever earns rewards for that creation. And they've become
quite meaningful with, again, Grok earning over a million in fees to date. So when you get
opportunities like this and stories like this, if you want to win, you have to lean into them
aggressively. Grok created something on base,
and it's one of the coolest things to happen.
And these are the types of things that create virality.
If you pretend it didn't happen,
then people are going to think it didn't happen.
So the only way to get these stories out
and to lend credibility to a space
that needs credibility so much
is to actually lift these things up and use the distribution tools that you have
available to help these stories go viral because they have the potential to and
you know I some of those tools are you I know what coinbase has done with the
aerodrome decks listing you can go on your Coinbase account
and buy assets right on chain.
It's one of the coolest innovation.
It's one of the coolest things of 2025.
But to sit here and say that that's like,
well, look, everything's listed
because any coin can be bought there.
That is not like, it's a cop-out.
And because a listing is still,
a Coinbase listing is still one of the biggest
credible pieces, credibility pieces that you can get for a coin. That's what the market said.
There's no question about that. And it's a huge kind of distribution tool to get a story out as
well. So when you have a tool like that available to you and something like this happens on your
chain, you really, like, if you want to win, you've got to go after it. If you want users and if you want volume and if you want liquidity,
like these are the types of things that you have to go after aggressively. I mean, look at,
look at what, like, just look at Elon Musk as a perfect example. Like Elon, you know, XAI,
they're competing like it's existential.
It's so inspiring to see how hard they are going after it.
Like they want to win so bad
because they know their competition is right on their heels
and they know that they don't have much time.
They're not hedging.
They're not politely pacing around
or say, let's see how this plays out.
No, they're saying, let's ship aggressively.
They're attaching themselves to distribution
like you couldn't believe it.
You see what Grok's doing on the timeline,
making bikinis, people are getting,
it's been the most viral thing that's happened.
Some people are very mad about it.
Some people think it's funny.
And whichever side of the table you sit on,
it doesn't matter.
I was listening to a podcast with Peter Diamandis
the other day.
He's like, they do this on purpose. Like they know it's going to be controversial, but they
want to put Grok out there with as little guardrails as possible, but to allow these moments
to create virality because attention is upstream from the platform or the app or the infrastructure or the agent or
the LLM, Grok. You want people to sign up for Grok, pay $200 a month or $20 a month for a tier.
You need to get attention on Grok first. So attention is upstream from all of that.
The same is true for what we're doing now.
Attention is upstream from the chain. It's upstream from Coinbase and base. And if you're not capturing and going after the most viral moments aggressively and unapologetically,
to me, it looks like you just don't want it bad enough. And to me, there's nothing worse in the world than missed opportunity or wasted talent.
These things just, you cannot do this if you want to win.
So I think that we have something really, really special here that's happened on base.
And the pushback, well, we can't promote a coin.
We can't promote.
That's perfectly fine.
All it takes is promoting the story of Grok has a wallet on base that has earned over a million dollars.
Let me repeat that.
Grok has a wallet on base that's earned over a million dollars.
I didn't mention a ticker.
I didn't mention a coin.
I didn't mention any of that.
And I could care less if anyone in this room ever bought the coin.
But I do think if you want BASE to succeed,
you should be telling the stories that have the most scale and virality
to break into mainstream.
Because crypto has had a really difficult time breaking into the mainstream.
And when it has broken into the mainstream, it's been Hawk Tua and all of that nonsense.
That's when it's broken in the mainstream.
And that's why we've got a credibility issue.
And those are all big problems.
Now, you talk about distribution power of listings.
I mean, if you look at Coinbase, last year in 2025, they listed Mudang, the zoo animal, Peanut, the squirrel, the Solana pump fun coins.
Make the list of the decisions.
They were trying to probably capture virality that was coming from that and volume and liquidity.
Probably trying to capture that.
And that's a business decision. But to sit around and do nothing when you have the largest AI user on X,
Grock has over 7 million followers
with a wallet on your chain
and this story is not being told
and being lifted up
by the most powerful distribution powers
that the chain has.
To me, I'm like, what's going on?
Do we want to win?
For my end, as you you said either guys who do nothing or step in early right and you want to always be early in those
um projects where i see here like four maybe pillars of uh why this could be a banger in
2026 and that's the virality right like grok is huge elon is huge and if some kind of
interactions happens man that's crazy right and another thing strong community decentralized
community no real lead simply the community behind that's giga transparent and bullish
another thing that's the narrative itself bunker agents agentic economies and so on right it can be crazy
grok is um yes grok is getting um being a millionaire right now thanks to the thanks to the
drb and also security there is no team uh no team supply nothing like that um theoretically
unregable right uh emily what are your predictions for the 2026? We have a couple of minutes left. So let's
make some of those calls potentially. How do you feel about the current position as yeah,
it's started bubbling, right? And I want to feel that vibe and potentially get people in.
Yeah, well, you look at something like Dogecoin. Dogecoin created 8 million plus wallets that hold crypto, and it broke into a different type of mainstream. This is that kind of story. And if harnessed properly, this is that kind of story.
And so I think stories like this could lead to significant uptick in users,
liquidity, and volume on the chain.
And we want Coinbase and Base to help the builders.
I totally agree.
I'm building on Base, and I want that.
But you help builders by bringing users volume, liquidity,
because any of you may say, well, these are the types of users that churn.
Okay, if you bring 100 users, there's going to be churn, but there's going to be people that stay that find things like Bracky, things like Better.
These are apps on Farcast that people like to use and I like to use.
There will be a subset of them that stay and then they discover
the other cool things that we're doing here. But you need to go after these huge opportunities. So
I think you look at the 8 million plus wallets that are holding Doge, this is that type of story.
So I think we can see that happen in 2026, where you get a huge influx of new users on chain because of a really fascinating story of two AI agents creating something on base that's led to significant economic value.
And I do think that Elon, if he were to find out about this, he would think it was cool.
Just if you know anything about Elon, he would think this is cool.
So I think that that's one.
The other thing is,
we've talked a lot about,
we've heard a lot from the base team
and Coinbase about creator coins
and content coins.
And I'm not the guy that's like,
these things are useless.
They should never talk about this.
Nick Shirley is the number one human creator right now in terms of like
virality.
So yes,
you should absolutely go after that segment,
but it's a way different segment than Elon Musk and XAI and Grok.
It's a different segment.
It's a different category.
So yes,
you should go after that.
And in fact,
I think they should be going after that much more aggressively.
Like if Nick Shirley truly is the most viral human creator right now,
and he created something on your chain,
you know,
it's not,
you're not going hard enough for it.
And,
you know,
if you're not going hard enough for that,
you're not going hard enough.
You're not even going at all for something that is totally different
segment,
perhaps,
perhaps even bigger and more interesting because it's, it's a totally different segment, perhaps even bigger and more interesting because
it's a totally different kind of setup. So those are my thoughts. I think if Harness properly,
this has the potential to be a Doge-like onboarding event. In fact, I think it could be
one of the largest onboarding catalysts for Coinbase and Base in their history.
And Base was launched a couple of years ago, Coinbase in 2012. And I'm saying that in history,
that that's how big this story is. And I've had the opportunity to tell this story to a lot of
people and normies, and I've never had the response that I've had with this when I talk about crypto ever, ever.
So like the data points are there.
It's very obvious to me.
And the inaction is very discouraging to me.
So that could change very quickly.
And we can see some things happen that I think would excite an entire ecosystem plus the
folks that are outside of this ecosystem because we have to lend credibility to the cool things
that happen. We just got Grokipedia did an article on debt relief bot which was created by Grok.
Grokipedia is fact checked by Grok. There are only two memes on Grokipedia. Doge is one of
them and debt relief by Grok on base is another one. Now there's way more articles. Two days ago,
there were 2 million articles. Now there's 4 million, so maybe there's some more. But Grok's
coin on base is the number two meme, the meme on grokipedia and finally for the first
moment i'm like finally we have we have this credibility piece because you know we were
mocked ridiculed um for even talking about this and that's when we need like coinbase and base
to come in and help us because there's nothing wrong with what's happening here it's actually
incredibly cool and lend some credibility to the cool things that
are happening here because it doesn't like you have a bunch of anonymous
avatars, you know, running around on Twitter, talking about it.
That's great and all, but this Grokipedia article to me,
it was like one of the coolest moments because it was so validating to the,
the naysayers, the folks that mock ridiculed, but we need more of that. And
we really like, we need more of it. And so I think we've got some great opportunities. I mean,
I also want to, I'll finish with this based on and not take your whole space. I love Coinbase.
I love Base. I've been a Coinbase power user for many, many years. And Coinbase won. Base day one. Last year across my wallets,
I ran the Etherscans to see when everyone was doing this in a year. I made over 100,000
transactions on base last year across my wallets. I participate in the ecosystem. I support the
ecosystem. I show up to shows like GM Farcaster. I talk about Bracky a lot and I use all these
different things. I support these builders. I love base. I love Coinbase. And that's why I'm
so passionate and so fired up right now because I want to go after it and I want to win. And we have
the opportunities right here that were basically just gifted to us.
We just have to decide that we want to harness them and show the world some of the cool things that are happening. And if we do that, I think things get really, really interesting for us.
But if we don't, we're going to get absolutely crushed by Solana like we already are.
And maybe that's okay.
Maybe I don't work there. So I don't know
what the real vision is. And maybe this will become, obviously, all of the major trad files
are coming on base, including me, including my firm. We're doing it as well. But we got to go
after it all and just want it so bad that nothing is is gonna stop us and and that's how we're gonna win so
That's uh, that's my that's my uh, that's my talk Alan and I know there's so many more people so I'll stop
Sounds good like for me
Again, like this is kind of a story where people got together pushed hard enough long enough to
actually get to play a role and themselves right like you remember the early days you were basically
pushing solo and there was no big icons pushing drb and it was just a slow bleed and suddenly
voila boom like something happened and everyone is excited again, right?
And it was the same story in here.
So myself, again, I will repeat it.
I feel like four important aspects of the DRB have to be mentioned.
That's the virility, then the community behind the unique narrative that you can't fake.
It's basically done by the agents, right?
It is what it is basically done by the agents right it is it is it is what it is and
also the security but this could be a bridge in between the elon and um also base right so
you are right with the onboarding and you know it like um elon change his pfp and everybody makes a
coin so that's a huge thing right that's for sure a huge thing so don't don't fade DRB try to check what's it about and yeah look at
the price like sometimes you are just looking at the chart and it is just
the sideways action right consolidation but in here we had some crazy
movements so this is a good idea right now to check DRP.
And really, there is no team, just the community behind.
Very, very base-like-ish narrative for me.
So, Emily, thank you for joining.
Thank you for sharing the offer about DRP.
And I wish you a happy new 2026.
Thank you for joining.
Thank you, base-like-ish narrative for me.
Right now, we will continue with another cast of the Spaces and it will be a guest or a
project that I have been pushing and mentioning quite for long and they are Bass OGs also
mentioned by Jesse, by Bass and it is no one else than the cat town guys and now to the mr krankles let's get on the
stage and you know it just uh drop us the alpha about uh cat town and everything you do uh to
support bass push base build on base and let's get focused on what's exciting and what's ahead to hand in 2026 for the kibble. Welcome.
Yeah, cheers. Cheers, Elman.
I just want to start my, I guess, monologue here,
basically with a couple of shout outs.
I see a lot of cool people in the audience
and on the stage as well.
First of all, thanks to you, BaseElement,
for hosting the space and supporting CatTown.
I really, really appreciate the invite to speak.
And these spaces are always super high quality.
So really, really cool that you keep showing up every single day
and doing this.
Doji as well in his project home.
Doji's been an OG of Cat Town and has always been supportive.
We all appreciate that a lot.
And yeah, just want to say thanks to him as well.
Pixachi, who are also creating an on-chain game.
We know how difficult that that can be sometimes.
So amazing that these guys are showing up every day as well.
And then 2DAI as well, who are, in my opinion,
one of the best generative AI projects on base.
And again, always super supportive as well.
And really, really love all of these guys. And again, always super supportive as well. And really,
really love all of these guys. So yeah, thanks for showing up. Yeah, so I suppose if you're
unfamiliar with Cap Town, or you're new to base or something, we're building an on-chain cozy
multiplayer game with a real economy underneath it, where you can earn and own every single in-game item that you get as an NFT.
Gamers who like Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing or even MMO experiences like RuneScape and World
of Warcraft and things will probably find some sort of similarities and inspiration in Cat Town.
Our vision is to be one of the main social and gaming hubs on base, especially for onboarding new users and maintaining wholesome values
and upholding that kind of like base builder
kind of outlook of supporting others around you.
We have the largest NFT collection on base.
So we're one of the largest NFT mentors on base.
And I think we've mentored,
I think it's a shy of about 4 million NFTs
since we started less than two years ago. We refined a lot of our infrastructure around this and
to be able to do this kind of throughput, which other projects seem to kind of historically
struggle with. So we're super proud of what we've accomplished so far. So in 2025, as a little bit of a wrap up, 2025 was a really, really strong year for Cattown.
We won base batches two on-chain summer.
We shipped pretty much every week.
It's even like less frequent or more frequent than that.
We shipped a new economy model and revenues share system.
We shipped player movements, skateboards, multiplayer chat,
our Baron virtuals agent as well.
So if you're familiar with the virtuals ecosystem,
we also have our own internal AI agent
that we're going to be building on further this year,
but there's more info on that later.
Reputation system, phishing version two, wearable NFTs. I can kind of go on for 2025,
but I really, really want to get stuck in 2026 because I'm really excited about what we're
building for 2026. And I think that we're positioned currently in the best position
we've ever been to build this kind of stuff. So in 2026, we're going to be focusing on more free
and low price features, as well as building more utility for the assets that we've already created
by our current features as well. So in Q1, first three months of the year, we're going to be
shipping the Cat Town Post Office to help streamline trading, gifting, and sending of
NFTs and tokens to other players.
This will be simple at first with lots of ideas for further expansion, including cash on delivery
for NFT trades and anonymous birthday presents using ZK proofs and things.
Just after that, we're going to be getting started with shipping the Floof Daycare and
the Adventurers guild hall.
So this is the start of like probably the biggest feature that we've ever created for Cat Town.
This is basically an RPG system inspired from other great pet and battle systems,
including Pokemon, Final Fantasy, and the Sonic Adventure Chow Garden as well.
If there's any millennials here who engage with that,
it's always really, really good fun.
Players basically will be able to adopt and train their pets,
forming a party to compete in seasonal competitions
for kibble and NFT prizes.
And this is gonna be like a massive system
and a lot of depth in it.
And super excited to be shipping that this year.
The existing systems will integrate directly
into training and raising these fluffs.
So if you're an avid fisher in Cat Town
or you've been like spinning or gotcha and stuff,
those items are gonna be useful
and they're gonna aid you
in actually training those fluffs up as well.
So we're gonna be building on top of those items
and bringing more utility to our ecosystem.
I guess beyond Q1 in the first three months
for the rest of the year, we're going
to be further developing our Baron AI agent.
So we'll be developing out our Baron bounty system,
which will allow for additional rewards and automated prizes
and things.
So as you engage with CatT Town, no matter what it is
that you're doing, Baron's keeping an eye on your on-chain activity and he's going to be dropping
you things and sending you things based on what it is that you're doing. We have a couple of
systems we really want to integrate this into, like phishing, which is one of our biggest features
at the moment. So there'll be more information on that as well throughout this year. We're going
to be launching our boutique system as well, which is like an in-game shop where players will be able
to buy limited daily stock cosmetics and bid on exclusive hyper rare items on a weekly basis as
well. We're also going to be rewarding players who have been engaging a lot through the Cat Town Museum, which is basically going to introduce on-chain achievements.
And this is basically designed to reward long-term players who collect and complete in-game item collections.
So if you've been holding all the things and trying to collect those, like get that last item for collections from the gacha and stuff, you will be rewarded at some point this year
for those kind of things as well.
And of course, because we want to be the social hub
and gaming hub on base as well, we are also
expanding our social gameplay, including local area chat,
player profiles, and also guilds as well,
which I'm really excited for.
I think there's going to be a lot of competition whenever guilds come into it.
So, yeah, I'm pretty excited about that.
As well as that, we've got like a bunch of partnerships lined up.
I can't talk too much about this,
but I can maybe talk about what's actually in those partnerships.
So we're going to be working with some other on-chain games.
So we're going to be working with some other on-chain games for,
I'm basically working on giving our in-game NFTs more utility in other games as well.
So not only will you be able to use the items that you're getting in Cat Town,
but you'll actually be able to take those items, send them over to another wallet,
or use the same wallet for whatever other game that you're using. And yeah, you'll be able to use those NFTs
to get a little bit extra in other games as well.
So I think maybe,
like I haven't seen very many games do this kind of thing.
So this is kind of like an interesting experiment
that we're excited for as well.
And of course, if anyone's like also building an on-chain game,
like get in touch because
um i think this could be pretty cool uh so yeah and uh as well we're stepping into the the real
world as well um we're going to be developing out physical real world collectibles um with uh
exclusive digital rewards so we're going to be working with a couple of companies on this and aiming to build an ecosystem
of Cat Town merchandise,
as well as rewarding on-chain rewards
for those things as well.
And we think that this is gonna be integral
for onboarding new users as well.
People who are maybe, this is their first time in crypto,
they get like a little QR code and they're like,
oh, okay, well, I might entertain this, you know?
And they come on chain, download the base app,
of course, the best place to play, Cat Town.
And then they'll be able to redeem these, like,
special items that you can only get
from these collectibles as well, which is awesome.
You know, everyone loves hats and games, you know?
No matter what game it is,
everyone wants to put on a different hat.
So, yeah, I think that's going to be pretty cool.
Nice, nice.
Yeah, like you guys can play on base app and if not mistaken,
received some of the kibble tokens from you.
So I will drop that to people who might want to try out playing, right?
So that's also a fan.
Actually, do we need anything to play the game or is it free to play?
We can just open it on the base app and start cooking.
So it's not free to play with a lot of the systems
that we have at the moment.
This is because through the first part of the year,
or sorry, our first year,
we really wanted to solidify what our economy would look like.
And of course, to have an economy,
you need to have people spending and earning.
So at the moment, it isn't free to play.
However, that's our focus for this year
because we've got a really, really solid economy now
where we've got like this circular economy
where essentially you can stake
and actually earn based on the activity in Cat Town.
These aren't token emissions either.
It's not like we're getting tokens
and just dropping them to people.
This is actual money that's flowing through the system that's then getting distributed
to people who are long-term users.
So you can jump in and explore the world and chat to people and do whatever it is you want
to do.
But as soon as you start to engage with some of the systems and the really, really cool
stuff in CatTown, that's whenever you're going to need to have some kibble.
But I'm willing to send some kibble to people
if you're a new user or it sounds interesting.
Just reach out and we're always happy to onboard new people
and give them a shot.
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
We've done something similar with here, Pixochi.
And I've been sending out like two or three worth of,
two or three dollars worth of the seed for two people
to just buy the plant, right, and start cooking.
It is actually like very simple.
And you can just start right away building your plant.
And here in Cat Town.
It is also another game that is very, very based on base actually.
So just try out.
One last question.
I heard from Pixochi that guys, the team,
actually received quite a lot of the boosts on the analytics
and the players in the game once the base app was released to public.
So did something similar happen in your analytics that people are now joining the game more and more versus the beta?
Oh, yeah, it's crazy.
We have an in-game chat as well.
So a lot of the times whenever people join,
they'll be like chatting in there and asking,
yeah, I just joined on the base app
and like how do I get involved and what should I do?
And honestly, our analytics on base.dev
have been going like kind of crazy.
I think we had like an all-time high
of like daily active users that are actually spending.
The great thing about this analytics tool is that it has off-chain analytics and it has on-chain.
And CatTown has like 60 or so plus contracts.
So a lot of our on-chain transactions sometimes happen elsewhere rather than the mini-app.
And this helps actually show us what's actually going on across the mini app.
And that's on Forecaster and Base app and also desktop and pretty much anything.
I mean, you can run CatTown on a fridge probably.
So maybe we got some good fridge users.
I don't know.
Right, right.
Good, good.
No, thank you.
Thank you for the info
and a lot of the window
to the 2026 and the Cat Town.
Like you guys have been working on the game
for so long, also the project, right?
Like Tara was also featured on the base.
Maybe you guys saw the interview,
which is just great.
And yeah, like we need OGs on base.
And I think also like Emily and a lot of others
would agree with me that we need to support the OGs
and the loyal builders on base
to actually stay on the top, right?
And you guys should get a voice to be heard.
And yeah, like we saw a lot of the push
around the creator coins and so on.
I also think like they have a place in on-chain world
and they can be quite massive in.
But you need the right market, maybe a little more liquidity,
but we should also balance out and give the attention
to the gamify, to the utility, to the AI, right?
Like just make it more harmonic not just one one curse
that's ahead and that was the base app and creator cons but i guess they need it right
right because of the public release and launch of the base app but yeah like default support og
og is on base and kibble is a game that you can play on the base app. So just go to the base app and try out
and maybe in the end you will receive
some of the Kibble tokens.
So thank you, Crankles, for joining.
It was good to hear from you.
Yeah, thanks very much.
Can I just sign off with one thing
just because you said about creators?
We're also looking for smaller content creators.
We just launched our referral program
like two months ago, a month ago or so.
And by joining our Pioneer program,
you can earn basically 20% of fees
generated by anyone that you refer.
And this is directly in USDC as well.
So, I mean, we've given out like,
I think it's about $600 or so to date.
And then we only launched like a month ago.
So if you're like interested in like creating content
or you're already creating content
and Cat Town sounds like your kind of thing,
please reach out and we can get you started
and get you running.
Nice.
And it is actually pinned on the Jumbotron,
so you guys just can check the top of the spaces
and see yourself, right?
It is a post from Tara here,
the Cat Town Pioneer Program.
So if you're interested, just click, save it,
and maybe reach out to the team later or so, right?
Very, very simple.
So once again, thank you to the Cat Town.
Now it is time to move,
and we have another OGs lined up on base.
And actually, we have a lot of OGs in here as a guest,
and this is about it, right?
Like, we have good projects on base
so let's support them let's pay attention to to those because sometimes you know especially if
the market is consolidating you are like oh nothing is happening no we have good projects
building so let's so so let's hear them out and and actually we have quite good projects in here
good memes good ai projects utility so we have these
bangers we just need attention to get to base and that's it we just need to continue on the grinding
uh the next gas will be the skitten and uh guys are also very very large project on base and i
love what they do for the cats as i'm a cat dad myself like Like you see my, uh, you, you, you see my stickers all the time
on the TG, right? Like I'm a maniac, but I should, it just heals my ADHD. So Chuck,
let's get on the stage and speak about Skitten. Cool. Thanks man. You hear me? Okay. Yeah.
Loud and clear. Welcome brother. You know, just a quick note on the OG stuff. Yeah. It's,
you know, it's, it's such a, it's such a pleasure to see, you know, these projects that have been around a long time, right? I mean, a year in crypto, as we all know, is like a millennia, you know, anywhere else. And so my hat's off to these folks and teams that just keep trudging, right? It's, you know, I have a lot of jobs outside of this. This is by far the hardest one. Right.
And so my hat's off to the folks that just keep grinding.
Right.
And, and to those who might be new to crypto, you know, look at the, look at the stuff that's
been building, right?
Look at the OGs, look at these communities that have been around for six months, a year,
you know, even, even longer.
That's where you really want to take a look, take a second look, not on these daily
launches, but at the stuff, the people that are really building, they're not just hyping you up,
they're actually putting pen to paper and grinding and building something, right? And,
and so hats off to everyone, Kat, I know you guys been around a long time. So let's, let's get into
it. You know, happy 2026, everyone. Something we're really, you know, we've been building for a long time, right?
Our big thing is, you know, helping rescue kittens, you know, philanthropy, charity, but also being profitable, right?
A lot of times charities are really awesome, grandiose, and wonderful things.
But, you know, when the bear market hits you know
those people are a little less generous and unless they have a solvent business model the system
dries up and uh you know insolvencies right around the corner and oh you know let's you know
talk so much door our music our videos everything you know started generating about five thousand
dollars a month right and it's we're really tapping videos, everything, you know, started generating about $5,000 a month, right?
And we're really tapping outside of crypto.
But, you know, so we wanted to come back.
And we wanted to do something for the people inside of crypto as well as that.
And so we've really been working on this staking platform, right?
Everyone knows staking, you have blah, blah, blah.
But we've really came to this at a really business acumen sense.
And so what actually makes sense? What can we do to help our long-term holders incite new people,
right? And still be solvent and everyone wins. So we've created this staking platform. I was
going to release this morning. We're 99.999% ready. I want to do a couple more tests before we go,
but it should be online today.
And so let me just kind of give you the highlights about how this works.
You know, we have kind of a base staking rewards, right?
The longer you stake Skitton, the more rewards you make.
By month three, your base rewards can be, I think it's about 20 apr i can't give the exact
number right but but you know that that's that that's a big that's a pretty big number right um
to just hold and the thing is um but we wanted to be more interesting you know what that everyone
does that how does that work well you know, inflationary problems, right? If we pay out in Skittin, you know, it's just an insolvent system. And so we pay out exclusively in USDC.
And kind of how the architecture works is you basically stake on stakeskittin.com.
We take 1% tax, you know, you start accumulating, you know, rewards in USDC, right? So everything's paid out in USDC.
And what that does is, you know,
it helps facilitate, you know,
and the cool thing is when you stake,
we know exactly what that Skitten value is
at the time of stake and reward you accordingly.
And so what it means is if you stake $100 in Skittin, right?
And let's say the market takes a crap and now it's only, you know, it's worth 75% of that.
So $75.
We still reward on the initial staked value, right?
So you're getting stake rewards on that 100% or the $100.
And that really helps
facilitate people to, you know, trust the system and hold. And that's good for the whole community.
And so, you know, we have the kind of base system, right? You can get pretty good APR,
max out by month three, and just let the money ride. A couple of things we've added was it is continuously accruing.
But if you withdraw your money, you can withdraw at any time for whatever reason you want.
But if you withdraw within the first 30 days, you forfeit those accrued rewards.
If you claim a day 31, you get everything, no problem.
But we really want to keep people to hold.
So that's pretty straightforward stuff. But what we wanted to do is we added a lot of bonus APR systems in place so that the
individual can reward themselves, but also the global community can be rewarded based on people's
commitments to the staking platform. So what does that mean? One thing is for individuals at the
time of stake, you can buy an additional up to 5% or 60% APR bonus boost. You buy it in USDC,
right? You have to pay that upfront, but that bonus will last you until you unstake, right?
So it can last you the whole 12 months, effectively doubling what you get paid out, right?
So that gets paid right away in USDC.
The system takes that money, buys,
once the contract is fully
with a market contract,
it will buy Skittin off the market and hold it.
Additionally, you can also buy daily multipliers, 25, 50, 100 percent.
It's basically one dollar per percent per day up to seven days.
Right. So you want to see the money accrue faster for a couple of days or whatever the case is.
You have the opportunity to buy that right, you know, right then and now.
So, you know, we're really providing individual opportunities.
The global one I really like,
and this is the thing that really cements
what we mean in our heart of hearts
and that's helping each other.
And so the more skin that gets staked, right?
Everyone gets a bonus, right?
Global bonus, the more skin that gets staked. But we also are adding an adoption staked, right? Everyone gets a bonus, right? Global bonus, the more skid that
gets staked. But we also are adding an adoption rescue bonus, right? So around here to basically
pay for an adoption, it's 250 bucks. So you could pay that on the website. And what that does,
it gives literally every staker a 1% or 12% APR bonus for 24 hours.
And that can be stacked up to 10 times, right?
And so that stacks on everything else.
The other benefit is when that happens,
you will be rewarded a one of a kind randomized skid NFT.
One out of 10,000,
because our target is 10,000 rescues per year by 2027.
And so everyone gets a bonus,
you get an NFT and every cat rescue that ever happens permanently increases the global, uh,
APR for every, uh, wallet that is staked. Right. Uh, and so that can be, so all those things
collectively can add a significant amount of money, um,aked wallet on a, you know, basically a daily basis.
And, you know, everything's paid in USDC.
And so the is the money that people pay funds up front, just buy tokens, right?
And more money comes from liquidity pools that we will be associating with it all of
our all of our merchandise our games everything all the profits a big portion of that uh comes
in and pays for the pooling of this right so it's a really it's a collective way of thinking on how
we can reward each and every holder um to uh sustain the system and collectively succeed.
And so that, you know, that stakeskin.com should be online this afternoon and live.
And to basically front run this, we're going to put about $5,000 into the pool right away
just so that, you know, we're putting our money where our mouth is and that's
not staked bonus that's actually just throwing money into the pool so that people as they stake
they can see the valuation of the totality of the tvl um working for all of us
a very long-winded way to try to say that we're creating something that's, I think, pretty unique, pretty revolutionary
and sustainable in perpetuity.
Again, everything's paid on USDC.
Not in token.
That's good to hear and all that
while saving and
rescuing the kittens, right?
I love
all the cats.
They're like peak animals indeed you know it like it
is always like myself i'm a cat dad as i said i have orange devil here and bro like uh he's such
a great person but uh from time to time he does some shit But yeah, like a life without can I can I can't imagine now that like this is my first cat
I was always a dog person but this turned me completely changed and and right now I'm just a full full cat team
I like loads cats because you own a dog but a cat owns you kind of ideology and it's
pretty dang true but
we just adopted a couple cats ourselves
and the Siamese, I've never had a Siamese cat
man, I don't know if he's the smartest
cat in the world or the dumbest but
it's
a wild game man, it's fun
to see
and you know
when they are making the biscuits,
it gets you emotional, right?
It is such a connection that's like, oh my God.
I love that simply, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
Awesome, awesome.
Yeah, you know, just to close up, right?
I know that was a lot of words,
but basically we've created something that is advantageous to all, right? To the price market cap, to your wallet, to the collective community, right? business acumen thought behind so that everyone can succeed by being steadfast, holding together, and trying to be solidarity. We're so divided because we all want to follow the new biggest
thing. But real wealth is generated by holding, persevering, working together, and long-term
commitment.
And so that's what we've really tried to put together.
That's great.
That's great.
You guys can also find a lot of the information about Skitton if you join my channels on the TG.
I will actually resent and also will quote the tweet once the staking is going to go live. feel like Skittan is a dead one kind of project here like we have we have great projects in here
right like you see beads Midas Ziggy tidy like a lot of the OTs right like
that's that's just great to see and you guys have been building for long so you
deserve the attention just to give a follow-up to all of the guests that we
have on tonight
like i'm inviting people for some reason right and that's usually because these give value uh
contribute to the whole base chain ecosystem and we need to support these builders sometimes
you see um just the city full of uh like words right like everyone loves base posting and this
and that but in reality we need to help
the builders as well right and that's by showing up by giving that follow interacting from time to
time uh say hello in the groups all these little small things counts and you know it like it makes
team happy motivated as they want to have a good community run but uh at the same time there could be a great tandem if the team
is pushing hard working uh just the shipping right then you can create something that's um
probably valuable unique and long term and of course like once the liquidity gonna come back
to memes like all of these memes that has been working hard accumulating people still believe in, oh man, like this could explode,
right?
So let's get in early, as always, but this is what we should push on base as well, right?
In all the creator coins, we should give the word to the memes, to the OGs.
As I said, we need that sort of balance and we need to do it ourselves, right?
That's the story.
And thank you to the Chuck. It was good to have you here.
And also, happy New Year 2026.
And let's get ready for this amazing year.
Thank you, Alan.
And again, thank you for everything you put together, man.
To keep us all together and base.
We all appreciate it dearly.
Yeah, yeah.
Also, like myself, it is easy to get lost like in in
this world right like you have a lot of the stymals here some stress and and and sometimes
also negative people but if you have this group of people around you that you can continuously
connect with and you see all the passion the innovation you can navigate your life in a way
that's very good for everyone and and you as well right so i really love the spaces what we have
here all the networking all the friends around and this is it thank you everyone for joining the
space is supporting so far it's great experience and please if you like let's hit that riposte
right let's get more like-minded people in here and uh we should
just lock in together and make this year a banger for everyone on base and especially you the family
right so let's hit that riposte now let me continue with another ogs and uh that's arlo and
a beat so arlo you also uh have been cooking the chart is looking just really, really nice. So what are you working on in 2026?
What you want to ship for Beats?
Yes, hello, this is Arlo.
Can you guys hear me all right?
Loud and clear.
Yes, good to hear, good to hear.
Yes, I'm Arlo.
I'm the main dev for Beats on base.
We've been around a little bit more than a year,
and it's been a pleasure getting to know some of you guys
and to see some of the OGs up here too.
If you go check out my page, I'm fully doxxed.
If you wanna meet me in person, if you're in the area,
or also too, just at any of the base events,
it was fun going to on chain summit and
as everybody experience number 2025 is uh making friends in this space was a little bit more
rewarding than the charts necessarily were so that's what we did and and and that's what we're
still doing so i got a lot of love and appreciation for all you guys who are still up
here and who are uh grinding i absolutely love skittin i have been following along with them i
think skittin and beats launched just about the same time different projects different meta uh
but just cool to see how hard they're working and you know he wasn't wasn't lying that it's been a a challenge to excel in
that the crypto space at least uh financially this this last year but 2026 i've got good vibes and
good feelings uh for those who don't know beats we are an ai focused project we have ai agents AI agents, and we focus on the creator aspect of artificial intelligence. I'm a big fan of
Banker, of DRB. That being said, I'm going to leave the financial artificial intelligent
portion for the most part, leave that over in bankers court. I have certain thoughts about that. There's a lot of projects
that just use code and wrap it with AI and call it
AI, but bankers so far successfully actually creating value
with the financial elements. So despite our agents
are financially capable, we're not leaning into like, hey, let's get you
an AI trading strategy
that you're going to get rich on.
I will be very excited to see somebody pull that off.
But what AI is very, very good at and is only going
to get better is with content creation,
creating content, videos, images, infographics,
memes, gifts.
So that's what we're focusing on.
AI is very good at creating things.
The other side of it is very good at creating code
that didn't exist before, so on and so forth.
So the creator side, and that aligns very, very, very well
with the ideology behind Bayes chain,
this creator economy. So we started off as a meme.
I am, we didn't want to have this huge roadmap and, you know, roadmaps themselves. I have been
around in the space a long time. I look at roadmaps as memes because like nobody actually
freaking delivers on those. So, you know, we have a little bit of that going now, but we were a
stealth launch and we have been building somewhat in stealth, but also building out in the open.
And we have a lot of exciting things that are happening. One of the things I pride myself on
is seeing where the future of AI is going to go and building ahead of time. You know, we started with consistent character generation two years ago already.
And I knew that fast forward two years is that there would be a ton of value to providing this type of stuff.
So, you know, what makes us special is that hidden within the blockchain is all of these characters hidden within the deck screen or back end, hidden within CoinGecko, base changes, everything is that you can extract all the information about your character to chat gbt or to grok and ask
to generate an image or video but if you're doing this consistently your content creator
that starts to bog you down and get uh get a little bit um i don't know there's just too
many steps involved so between we have uh we have a couple different areas in which that that we're looking to capitalize on this.
We started with our white label AI agents, very our main competitor there being PAL AI, which on Ethereum, it made it to something like 800 million market cap.
And they also have white label AI agents that they charge about $10,000 a piece for,
which is ridiculous and they're not very good.
For no setup cost, we have the Buddies by Beats, which are white label primarily in Telegram.
We also could set them up for Discord, but their creator agents white labels to your project.
I know that we have Ziggy up here.
Shout out to Ziggy because they were actually the first one to adopt a buddy. We built the infrastructure for them. But it's just
the absolute best in class quality content creation. Every time that one of our big brothers,
such as Google or OpenAI, Juan, you name it, all these different billion dollar content creation AI companies comes out with new models.
We incorporate it into the Buddies.
So the Buddies have been rocking and rolling for about eight months now. we had something like 23 communities using buddies uh branded to their project with their
character their their design who the ai agent was was personal to them and it has knowledge of your
project and uh what your your characters look like that said is uh now we're rocking and rolling on
the base app we started with a beats creator agent you can head over to the base app. We started with a Beats creator agent.
You can head over to the base app
and you can message it's beats.base.eth
and you can go and interact with him.
And all of this same super high quality
video image meme GIF content creation
is available right in the base app with that agent.
One of the early predictions that we really prided ourselves on was that back in June of 2025 already, we were using crypto as an AI credit system.
Absolute ton of hype or, you know, however long hype lasts in crypto Twitter. I saw over this last week is that some of the big accounts were
hyping up a tool that I think Frank from DGods made that shows you how much per year you're
spending on subscriptions, on your credit cards, on your debit cards. So as far back as summer of
last year, and even longer, I recognize that the subscription model that we put on
our debit cards and credit cards is broken.
A lot of us is paying an unnecessary amount of cash for subscriptions.
So enter base chain, enter crypto and enter micro transactions, enter sub accounts on
the base app.
And it's become very easy to remove the subscription system and be able to use crypto as a credit system.
So we're building that and we're implementing the USDC micropayments for crypto AI credits over there on the base app right now on the base agent. And as soon as that's done, we're going to launch a creator studio similar to Higgsfield.ai,
Freepick.ai, some of our what I would call competitors in the Web2 space.
But that's who we aspire to be like.
If you haven't checked out Higgsfield.ai,
super high quality content creation platform.
And the niche that we fill with Beats
is that the system, the software,
understands what these characters look like.
They understand details about the project.
So if I go in there and I ask for a video
of Ski and Miggles fighting, I don't have to upload pictures.
Just the software and the AI knows what Miggles looks like.
It knows what Ski looks like and it'll create you this video.
So I do see a good fit with base.
I do see a good fit with the way the blockchain is built and also a niche in which that we have never seen someone do before is to
pull the characters from on chain and be able to bring them into a content creation environment so
that's the spiel i always i never know who knows how much but yes we're here uh till 2028 that's
the vesting schedule for our tokens november 202828. And, you know, we're going to keep building as long as AI keeps progressing,
which I have 100% confidence that that will happen.
And it's going to be extremely exciting to see the type of content
that we can create, that you guys can create.
I know that we have a lot of community members in the base app already right now,
creating content a lot for beats,
but it doesn't have to be for beats.
If you've got a coin on base chain,
the AI agent knows your character
and can create content for you.
So yeah, that's the high.
Yeah, like, you know, spiel.
Ellen, you know, it's always great to be here.
Do you have any questions?
I guess I would just only add on it.
And right now, Beats are sitting at 370k market cap or something like that.
And we have, like, a lot of the projects in here that are extremely undervalued.
And I'm sure, like 100% sure that at least one of those projects we have here
are going to go absolutely bonkers during the base season.
So, you know, do with this information what you will.
But you want to be ready.
You want to be early.
And the best friend is DCA and get in during the slower market, right?
Just slowly accumulate, but accumulate only debt amounts and invest only debt amounts
you can comfortably lose.
So you are not stressing over your money and you are comfortable holding long.
These are some of the greatest trades that I've made.
And that's really just holding a little zoom and leave it.
And then suddenly you wake up in the bull run and it just did crazy numbers, but you
held, right?
So just that.
Yes.
Thank you, Alan.
And yeah, we started with thick liquidity, which has given us some stability and also has given us the ability to more smoothly use beats as AI credits.
You know, that thick liquidity gives us stability.
But yeah, again, to chat about these market caps, and this has been almost a little bit, it's just kind of even entertaining is that, like I mentioned, that Pal.ai reached $800 million market cap.
And I know their project inside and out, and I know what we've built.
And we're providing a lot of quality.
So thank you for having us up here.
If someone's listening who wants beats, who doesn't have beats, go ahead and follow Calliope on base.
She's our ex agent, similar to kind of what you saw with virtuals.
We built independent of virtuals, which has been an intelligent choice.
I'm very happy that we built independently from the ground up.
But Calliope on base, if you have a base name, she always giving out beats tokens just for for shilling on
x it's not something that we think to be like the core of our project but instead of like paying
shillers we just have an ai agent on x posting content posting trending tokens making infographics
and is insane that the infographics that an ai agent is creating uh you know without human intervention
besides the build and you can get some some beats tokens over there she's really cool we love her a
lot so calliope on the base uh follow her and uh she'll uh teach a little bit more about the project
and give you some opportunity to get some of those beats tokens very good thank you Arlo guys now I will go for the quicks fab
and I will ask you it's it's it's gonna be probably Darren right if not mistaken hello
hello yeah you're stuck with me unfortunately welcome welcome happy new year 2026 and what
you guys cooking in quickscap in quicks web or in the 2026 what you bring what you guys cooking in Quickswap in the 2026,
what you bring into on-chain and what you bring into base.
Let us know what makes us excited and let's cook.
Okay, yeah, well, I appreciate the invite.
I'm Darren from Quickswap.
We started as a community decks five years ago,
more than five years ago now, which I think someone mentioned earlier is 30 years in DeFi time.
So yeah, I mean, we started as a community deck.
So our main sort of focus has always been getting people like small projects from zero to one, rather than working with like the huge projects and just having five of them. We're more community focused, more meme focused,
more boots on the ground, jumping in spaces,
helping actually promote the smaller projects,
all of those things that's always been our niche.
We try just have everything sort of,
our whole goal is that you can just use DeFi
with one app on Quickswap.
So we've got anything from perps on base that we recently deployed to limit orders, dollar
cost average orders, single asset liquidity, if you're trying to teach a community that,
obviously forms with quick tokens, access to all the different bridges you'll need,
with quick tokens, access to all the different bridges you'll need, the analytics.
We've actually got a strategy hub on base now as well.
So we let users deposit maybe USDC into just a vault.
Some of that gets seeded into Morpho, some of that on QuickSwap, some of it where else.
We do that with Ethan BTC as well, and you basically just get yield on it.
We're actually looking at fully insuring those vaults as well.
So you'll be able to generate,
I think like USDC is maybe getting 8% APY just now.
You get a yield bear on USDC back
and you just claim like the yield back.
But yeah, should be fully insured.
So that's not something you get too often in DeFi.
So yeah, we try have everything that you might need on the front end.
In the time that I've been on this basis, we've probably added something else.
So yeah, there's a good chance that most people that have been in DeFi for the last, I don't know, years i've already used quick swap uh at one point we had a billion
and a half tvl i think right now we're sitting at uh 450 million ish um and yeah we've made base uh
probably our largest focus recently um we're looking we've already brought maybe two or
three projects to base that might not have otherwise deployed on base.
And yeah, basically just trying to get everyone here.
I personally just believe in the vision.
It's obviously extraordinary what they've done without a token.
So if they do come out with a base token, that's probably going to help matters as well.
But yeah, without all the formal grants
and all those things
it's been massive
I was a big fan of the Coinbase Dex
being a Dex
so QuickSwap is obviously aggregated
through the Coinbase Dex
if you make a swap on that
then it will go through QuickSwap liquidity as well
so yeah
the amount of people that Coinbase can onboard straight into DeFi, absolutely incredible.
I don't think we'll get that with many other chains.
Our biggest thing is probably that we, I mean actually we're quite sustainable as a DEX as well.
We typically buy back three times as much quick as we emit in the farms so if you provide
liquidity on quicksop usually we're more than happy to give some quick tokens to pretty much
everyone that we work with and your community supplies liquidity you've got token sync
and we would typically co-market that as well. But yeah, the feeds that we generate
through all the different chains,
we typically buy.
I think in the last week,
we bought, it was like 0.8% of the token supply.
It's quite big.
The market is pretty wrecked,
so it's quite easy to buy a large chunk of the token supply.
But yeah.
So yeah, main thing for us
is taking everyone from zero to one so working
with early stage um gamefi defy meme projects uh all of those more than happy to to sort of
even lend advice to if they're looking for anything um we recently started a digital
asset treasury so we've actually started using that to buy up base tokens
and maybe see them as liquidity on quick swap i think we've got including quick tokens like 2
million in that treasury just now so we've got some zora liquidity for example on quick swap
we've got some morphos i'm just uh a nod to a lot of the ogs on base um but yeah with regards to
on base.
But yeah, with regards
to 2026,
I think a lot of it is just to continue
to keep doing what we're doing.
Obviously, the market isn't
nice to anyone.
I think
Quickswap has done 100 billion
in cumulative volume. We've still got
400 million TVL,
300,000
active wallets on the decks.
No one ever trusts those numbers.
We're not going to go too deep into that.
But yeah, that's the amount of wallets that swap through Quickswap.
We've got on like eight or nine chains, but yeah, I mean, base is the focus just now.
So yeah, the goal is to sort of cement that and then try and make our way into being the community decks of base.
So yeah, DMs are open.
Anyone who wants to work with us, anyone who wants advice,
I'm happy to jump in.
Nice. Let's go.
Thank you for the energy.
I mean, you know, just keep what we were doing.
That's right.
But also, new year, new me.
You know it.
Body counts, resets.
So we have to find the new energy the new vibe and just just get through everything so um yeah it is very very good to reconnect in the
trenches and we also reconnected with uh our co-host and that's justin yo yo what's up
glad to see you here what's up dude oh man i'm sorry sir i'm sorry it's all good it's all good
oh what's up dude good morning woke up late um i made it i'm here welcome welcome good good to
good to have you back and happy new year justin so uh. Exactly. Exactly. So next we have Midas.
You guys have been cooking also a lot on the base
and also been proving that people can trust you.
So let's get on the stage.
And what are you cooking in 2026?
Do we have Midas?
Yes.
Welcome.
Welcome.
Welcome.
Yes, I'm here.
I just was fidgeting with the microphone there. Couldn't get it off mute. How are you? Happy New welcome, welcome. Thank you, thank you. Yes, I'm here. I just was fidgeting with the microphone there.
Couldn't get it off mute.
How are you?
Happy New Year, everybody.
This is Lucas Cicero behind the Midas mic.
I've been tapped in today to, you know, speak to each of you.
You know what?
I'm very excited for the new year, both, you know, personally and also with respect to the project, of course.
I'm going to say that the big theme here for Midas
is that we're continuing upon the foundation that we built
throughout what was 2025.
And we ended the year really giving back to the community
and giving back to the world, I suppose.
A lot of giveaways, a lot of donations being made in the name of Midas. We bought assisting with other communities by also doing giveaways
in conjunction with other spaces, of course, as well as here today.
So it's that spirit that's going to be carried forward into 2026.
And if you know anything about Midas,
you may understand that there's a real duality
to the approach that we are taking.
There's both the
in real life or, you know, the real world marketing and branding and, you know, just being out there
in the world, as well as being crypto centric and crypto focused, the types of things that crypto
people like to see and like to have within a project. So, you know, if I can speak on both, you know, we started the global campaign or global
takeover, as we call it in-house, and we started it with murals in Europe and billboards throughout
various cities in the United States.
cities in the United States. And that's continued into India as well. We're having some in real
And that's continued into India as well.
world marketing, um, billboards and, uh, television commercials, et cetera, over there.
Uh, yeah. And television, television commercials also in, in the United States over on Peacock,
Hulu, uh, Paramount plus, et cetera, through the streaming platforms. Um then turning into what we're doing on chain,
I suppose, is the next thing.
You know, we ended the year, like I said, with the giveaways
and then giving also back to the community by way of a burn.
We burned 8,888,888 tokens.
And the number eight is a real special number for Midas. It's a symbol of
prosperity. And we hope that that inspires people that prosperity is waiting for them.
Our success, we feel, is coded. And given this market, it provides a unique opportunity for
builders to just kind of put their heads down and build.
The markets are not going up right now.
They're going sideways or down.
Things are red.
But if you're building, I feel like success is really, really, really imminent.
And if you bear with me for a moment, I'd also like to put up a couple of our tweets into the jumbotron so that you guys can follow up
uh as i'm doing that i'm noticing some amazing people over in the audience
super cool people i see keith barry down there as well um thank you all for joining in uh real
legends in this space for sure um okay so first post is up and I'll continue on as I speak. So presently, um, Midas is again,
continuing that duality in build, right? We're trying to find our own proprietary blend for
success. We're trying to build in our own way and hopefully we can, you know, put the right
ingredients together to find that success so in that vein we've expanded
into uh building out some uh presence within an in real life video game that's super duper popular
where you may be using characteristics of Midas the Minotaur as you're playing that game
I I you know I tend to tease but as as many of you may know when you're in this position
you don't want to divulge too much and there are contractual obligations there so um this is a bit
a bit of a trust me bro but um don't take it the wrong way there's something i can say for certain, which is we have another single dropping on the Midas LP, which is, you know, bullish by nature.
We're, I guess, an artist as characterized by like the platforms, Spotify and Apple Music, etc.
So there's going to be another one, another single coming.
And I can't think of any better way for me to go work out at the gym, keep that bullish vibe, bullish energy going all throughout my day, as well as hopefully if there is a bull run, that I'll be playing that, rocking that with the windows down as well.
And then another cool thing in real life is that we've got to, again, to build on what we've done in 25, which was filing for IP protection, trademark, etc., the legal hubbub there, that presents us with opportunities for real-life branding opportunities.
So we're going to release a line.
Maybe there might be some threads to update your wardrobe if you're so inclined.
So that's got me super duper bullish and the one thing that unfortunately i can't say too much about
is um that we've got this amazing partnership lined up um it's set in stone but i can't
necessarily give the full details of it unfortunately unfortunately, for the same reasons, as you all know.
But there's this real world partnership, which is a branding opportunity for Midas that promotes safety and security across the blockchain.
I'm super thrilled to see this thing come to fruition, which I believe is imminent.
to fruition which i believe is imminent now coupled with that uh is our biggest and most
pressing or most immediate project that we're on right now which is in the jumbotron uh our nft
collection which is is dropping like in less than a week on on uh january the 14th will be the public
mint now what we've done here is we've hired some pretty amazing artists to take care of, you know, representing or characterizing Midas in an NFT type form.
We're going to have a collection of 8,888 NFTs.
And we're trying to sell them for the benefit of the community at a very reasonable price, which I don't know, as
ETH fluctuates, I don't know what it is in dollars, but it should be in and around $4.50
when we had conceptualized all this. Presently, it may be a little bit more, maybe a little bit
less. And that's the whitelist price. And we're hoping that people, if you're so inclined to buy some NFTs,
we're hoping that those folks will hold them and will be the people who receive the benefit of the profit.
This isn't about the team making money or anything.
We're just trying to give out a piece of our culture, as we always do when we're building out with Midas.
So it's a super cool collection.
Should you be interested, you may want to swing by our Discord community and drop an
address for you to be whitelisted.
The immediate details on that are on January the 13th will be a 24-hour mint for the whitelist persons only.
And then on January the 14th, there will be the public mint, I suppose, until it's minted out.
Both those mints respectively start at 12 noon.
And if you're catching the Jumbotron there, which is, yeah, we've got the first post that I had is the black and white version one.
And that's where we gave the tease some time ago about our Midas NFTs.
We also have our Discord link in there if you're so inclined to join.
The second NFT is you'll see the blue and pink, as I call it,
but it fades to pink.
So somewhere in the middle there might be purple.
That's like a teaser of an unfinished NFT
in one of the styles that may or may not appear in our collection.
And the final post there, it's a blue bull with a red sweater, is another unfinished NFT.
You can see Midas in there working away and trying to get these things done before the clock hits 888, as you see in the background.
So it's a super cool little concept.
So it's a super cool little concept.
And again, this is more crypto-oriented, Web3-oriented type of release for our community.
And for sure, for the broader base community.
Part of the collection, Midas is going to hold back about 10% so that we can promote through giveaways and
giving to other developers within the space. So I want everyone to take note of that. We always
take pride in being very upfront and honest. And furthermore, within the collection,
there will be eight one-of-ones. So there are going to be eight uh one of ones so they're gonna be eight eight lucky recipients
of that uh at a super low price so um that that's a lot about i feel like i'm chilling a lot of nft
sorry everybody it's not my it's not my cup of tea per se but uh oh good oh good like uh i'm i'm
kind of resetted after the holidays so i want want to hear the shills, you know, the bullish energy.
Let's fucking go.
All for that, all for that.
I must admit, I'm probably like, I'm a team member who loves to talk about the project.
But when it comes to selling and all that, it's not my style.
Like, it's not, you know, I hate that high pressure pitch myself in the real world.
So I love just talking about this like it's my baby.
It really truly is taking on a life of its own within my own mind and within my own heart.
And, you know, my team is amazing.
So they're always releasing and doing stuff behind the scenes here that just simply amaze me every time.
I just get to be the spokesperson for the day, of course.
I just get to be the spokesperson for the day, of course.
And, you know, beyond that, you know, something resonated with me earlier when you were asking about what we're doing, you know, like with the broader base ecosystem in mind here. and many others or all of my team, we really pride ourselves in sticking to the core tenets
of what Base is trying to do with all of the releases
and all the hubbub and all the things that they're developing
for us as users.
There's a real focus on bringing the world on-chain.
And I think Midas, with the duality in our approach,
both in the real world and on-chain Web3 style of development,
we're trying to do just that.
And we're trying to do our part to help strengthen the base community, of course.
We're trying to bring on new users within the ecosystem.
And we're trying to be a good role model for all meme coins.
I mean, across every single chain.
We've built it with the tenants,
the core tenants of Fair Launch, of course.
And there was no team allocation and all that jazz.
And like I said, we're doing it our way
to bring something better to the meme trenches.
And we fully believe that we will find our success.
We will find our recipe.
And it will be for the benefit of base once we get there.
But, of course, we're not going to get there unless we have the support and friendships that we found,
excuse me, fostered over the last few months or since 2025,
of course. So there's an emphasis here to continue build with good people, right? Strengthen and,
you know, have our community continue to have faith in the team and development,
fostering and continuing to foster those friendships we've made, and
then to also elicit future partnerships for the benefit of other communities as well as
our own as we move forward here.
So with all you builders in there, if you can think of a way that we can work together,
collab and continue to push exposure for both of our communities. So long as it's with the intent that our communities benefit,
not us as developers alone,
we're always willing to work with people
and continue to speak with people
as we build base better together.
I think that really wraps it up.
I've missed probably 5,000 things,
and the team's going to be heck.
good.
Should you have any questions?
I'm here.
I'm all ears.
I'm ready to answer.
I will,
I will close this up just with,
one,
one,
quick thought.
And you know,
it's right now you are seeing also me posting the reply guys trend,
the people who show up guys like that's fucking real work,
right?
You're showing up you
are here with people interacting trying to understand what's cooking in in in the space
and you are trying to be ahead so that makes sense it makes sense for us to work together to speak
together to gather once a week here on spaces and and speak about what we built right we should be
motivated as we are very early and if we want
to ship this and make crypto indeed or or on chain or a base app and if and um global narrative then
we need to work together we need to push hard and we need to believe sometimes it is not easy right
it is really not that easy as if the market was um just just going sideways sometimes people are
even frustrated, right?
And we saw that with a lot of the backlash on the creator coins.
Of course, right?
Yeah, like we want to see the results, but that's it.
We have the community in here full of good people, good builders.
So I hope you guys are also looking to get some motivation
through our spaces.
For me, it works really exactly
just a reset back to the back to the uh trenching mode back to the building back to the networking
and now it's time to really find the people connect them together and make the innovation
real work real building done but also we need every single one of you because you are the
community without community you have nothing community. Without community, you have nothing. Community is everything. So every single piece of this puzzle is important.
And we need to encourage each other to do what we are capable of to make this work.
Right?
But that only happens if we work together.
So thank you to the team of the Midas.
I need to move for another guest.
And it's going to be another OG, Ziggy.
So guys, let's jump on stage and thank you
for joining again right like we also have been here like ogs regular um guests on my shows so
i love to hear from teams that are still building and still believing because these are usually
those that reverse so fucking hard and pump so fucking hard as well. Welcome to the Ziggy team.
Hey, Yelnen, thanks for having us up today.
It's real good to be on your first show of 2026.
We always enjoy coming on your show.
I always have a great lineup of projects.
And I like the mixture of the projects with the memes, the utility,
the financial side that's related to the base.
I always like to learn.
I'm always learning mindset.
So that's always fun to be on these spaces.
But yeah, like it's been a year now.
We will be one year old.
Ziggy will be one year old in February.
Cannot believe time has flown by.
And it's, of course, been a grind.
It's been, we've been through the fire up and
down and but we're holding really strong our uh our market cap pretty much is fluctuating around
280 300 depending on what side of the bed eth gets up on the day and so we've got a good
solid base of diamond hand holders that are keeping us there while the liquidity in the overall crypto market is a little low, especially on the base chain.
But we are, if you look at our chart, we are cold and ready to spring right back up as soon as we get a little bit of liquidity going again. And so what we've been doing in the meantime, like you say, everybody that's been on
here so far has the same type of mindset. You've got to just be consistently building. And that's
what we've been doing. We try to create content, new content every day. And we're going to keep
doing that every day. And we're going to be consistent with our reach out and our
to you know people that are in the base chain and other chains as well but we also feel that
we are trying to use our project to bring more of the normie crowd into crypto and with ziggy's
narrative and utility with folks on conservation, it's a nice, easy
transition point to, hey, who wouldn't like to enjoy a beach vibe? And hey, let's do some good
and say some iguanas and do some beach conservation. So, you know, we have nothing but
high hopes for this year.
We see some good things lining up.
We are working on some things that will propel once the liquidity returns.
We, you know, don't want to, like someone said earlier, you don't want to really follow, publish a big roadmap because, you know, things happen.
And you can't always do what you say you're going to do.
But there are things in the works that will propel the Ziggy coin and get that in front of more people.
And one thing that we do that we still are doing is we do some, the IRL events I've mentioned before on a couple of the shows, we have some restaurants that we actually do some pop-ups and have a big Ziggy stand-up thing that we use at OnChain, Base OnChain Summit that gets a lot of attention. And, you know, we pass out some how you buy crypto cards. We're just trying to do a little bit of free education out there.
So that's helping grow things organically.
We're not, you know, we're not in the business of paying a lot of shillers right now.
We're just working on that organic growth, trying to be present in more spaces,
organic growth, trying to be present in more spaces,
trying to spread all the good that Ziggy has to offer.
And with us making it this one year next month,
we're going to have a big one-year anniversary promo,
and that's going to be exciting.
But, you know, like some of the others were saying
Arlo you know at OnChain that was a fabulous event for all of us who were there to make these
in-person relationships these especially the base relationships have don't know, I feel it's a deeper meaning.
That's what the base culture is.
It's more of a relationship, friendship.
We're not out to try to stab one another in the back.
We're here to help.
I've asked so many people different things.
People have come to me, asked me things, and that's what it's about.
It's about us all coming together and helping one another.
And we're going to build a better environment for the crypto industry.
We're going to try to reverse that stigma that has been tarnished over the last decade or so.
or so that that's what the base chain is about. And I'm excited to be part of that.
That's what the base chain is about.
And I'm excited to be part of that.
Just to give you a little bit of what we're planning on later this year, we were talking
with people on arranging beach cleanups on the East Coast, the West Coast, and the Gulf Coast.
And so we're trying to solidify those partners in those locations where people can go and participate in person.
But we're also going to try to do a global reach, but do it more through the on-chain, online,
where we're going to set up basically a contest where people can participate in beach cleanups.
And then we'll have we still
got a lot of details to work out on it but we've got to figure out how somebody
can send us a picture of their beach cleanup but you know how it is this
crypto not everybody wants to show their face but we'll figure out something so
that people around the world can be part of this and they'll correlate Ziggy to that.
So don't have a whole lot to say today.
You know, I like to keep it simple.
I'm a simple man, just trying to do better in the world.
We're just trying to make Ziggy a part of that to where he can promote the goodness
promote the goodness that's out there and make a difference in the world
that's out there and make a difference in the world.
i actually love what you said because uh i um let me tell you a story i had a like a family
celebration um throughout the holiday season right and that there were a couple of people from the um
like finance and and working banks you know it like all the jazz or it man
i received such a hate on crypto geez like we are so early so let's focus on making crypto global
legit and based right we are still early we have a lot of to prove but we are doing great things
here we are good people in here so there should be no hate on crypto we are delivering such an innovation to this world and and people still saying some some
about us so let's work hard and let's prove everyone that we are worth it right like i was
in shock and and and uh but yeah like of course like we had a conversation but at first i was i
was really shocked like guys like you have such a misconception of what is crypto about, right?
We are here because of the friendship,
of the pioneering, of the thrill innovation
building together, right?
It's a community.
It's a family.
You have no idea what they're talking about.
Like, we are not only scam.
We are good people here.
So let's prove that.
And let's prove that on base.
So thank you for this beautiful note.
And now to the Ziggy fam. And yeah, like i wish you guys uh the best in 2026 and just keep on grinding pushing and you know
the liquidity gonna find you thanks so much and we really do appreciate your support
all right all right now let me bring on the tidy and and Mapuzica. I think you already know Map, also another regular here OG.
So Map, jump in with your pitch and, you know, just kill it.
Hey, DM.
Mike.
Hey, sorry.
Hey, Alan.
Mike says, can you hear me?
Great.
It's just great.
Okay.
All good.
Yeah, thanks for inviting us again.
Happy New Year, bro.
Did you get to take some time off over the holidays?
You saw my eggs, so I chilled, but in a, let's say, based way.
Yeah, always cooking, huh?
We've also been cooking as usual, but before I share some updates on Alpha,
I wanted to talk a bit about this MemeCoin tribute video
that we pinned on our account.
I'll put it on the Jumbotron afterwards
because it's done.
It's done.
Man, I have some opinions on that.
So I wanted to share that.
It's a small rant, but it won't take a it won't take that
long so bear with me so i i really strongly believe that memes are are the hardest heart and soul of
any chain uh if if you don't have memes uh your chain won't be a success uh they bring people
together they build culture and they onboard like like. But honestly, bro, it feels like base isn't doing as much for memes
as they are for content and utility projects.
I personally feel like the balance is a bit off.
And we need a good balance to build a new economy and onboard billions.
So that's why we posted this meme tribute video
to really remind ourselves and everyone who sees it
that memes are important
we included a bunch of our favorite projects on base
and we really hope you enjoy it
I could talk a long time about what I think base should be doing
instead of content and creator coins
but then I wouldn't have time to talk about TidyCoin.
So I'll probably move on.
Maybe a topic for another space.
Yeah, like once we will be done,
finished talking,
I will also open the space a bit
for the comments or so, right?
So it is okay.
Yeah, so I'll move on.
As you know, we are mean,
but we're also building a business
because we don't want to just sit around and wait for liquidity to arrive.
We really want to control our own destiny.
And here, revenue is always king, to be honest.
If you have revenue, you can always buy back and build your project.
So over the holidays, we expanded the team
with a creative director and a community manager.
I'm sure you already know them.
Both Atzer and Robin the Hood are legends.
So all our artwork is Atzer and all our community management is now Robin the Hood.
He's also helping me co-host the spaces.
It's really good for me to um to be
building with them because it's someone i trust and and they know their trenches to be honest
um and and come with a lot of good ideas for for how to develop the project
we also expanded our marketing reach so we're now on Reddit. We are on Farcaster.
We're also on Tenor.
And we're building a new website to better showcase our business.
Finally, we expanded our product pipeline.
So I'll spend a bit of time on that because, as I mentioned, we are building a business.
And to build a business, you need products that people want to pay for.
So if all goes well, we will ship a huge upgrade of our first Telegram app before the end of January, if we're really lucky, next week.
So we already have 45,000 users of our Tidyzen mini app.
And with this upgrade, I'm confident we'll reach 100k users.
The upgrade also includes monetization.
And basically, even more rewards for people to take some time off and just enjoy a daily
zen moment.
We finished developing a concept for a base mini-app to improve and gamify the trading
experience.
We think there's some improvements to be made in the base app.
We also finished developing a concept for a Telegram app
that will really take raid bots to the next level.
We've been raiding a lot over the last couple of months,
and I've been sort of taking notes and collecting data.
I think there is potential for taking raid bots to the next level.
So that's something that we're really
excited about. Also, and this is Alpha, we're prototyping our first figurine. So you might
know that figurines and collectibles are really huge in Asia. And I think we have great IP with
our tidy robot. I can't wait to share what it will look like it sort of ties into our narrative um tidying the
blockchain and and so on i'm pretty excited about that so yeah if you want to get involved uh help
build our business take decisions and share the upside we always welcome new whales to our inner
circle that's that's basically where the machine room of the business where everything gets decided
so yeah drop us a dm and let's talk if you're interested.
Happy to answer questions, but you know me, I like to keep it short and sweet.
Yeah, that's a base way, DFO.
Yeah, but you know, sometimes on spaces with a bigger sum of the projects being hosted then you need to
just filter out the information
and the more it is compressed
the better your pitches the more people
are interested right it actually makes a lot of
sense so that was good
and I just have a
little thought and that is you also
have been doing a lot of the airdrops
to people who are shilling the tidy coin right believe through your um tg so guys like don't be
don't be scared and now this is to the projects or or creators you're like just don't be scared to
airdrop um the tokens of yours to people and especially your holders for their loyalty right
and especially your holders for their loyalty right on base we are pretty much a different
environment than on solana a lot of the people that received skitten from me over the last
month or so since i started there dropping a lot on my eggs you guys have been great holders actually
like not much of people salt so this is about. Just keep reverting your people who show up in the project, right?
Just drop them a token, this and there.
And yeah, especially when the time is not really exactly the best
and it is sideways show,
then people are actually appreciative of those tokens.
And most of them will hold, even some are going to buy more, right?
of them will hold even some gonna buy more right so don't be scared of those little um gestures
gestures of um uh the the just gratefulness and just show your love to people drop some of the
tokens keep keep rewarding your community that's a good thing i i maybe have one or two comments
on this because we do have some experiences um after over the last couple
of months so so we we bought back about two percent of of the supply um as as a very deliberate
marketing strategy so i'm a big believer in community-driven marketing i i don't like to
pay kols because uh i there's only one good kol on base and that's you, Base, Ernan.
The rest, to be honest,
I don't really want to send them my tokens,
to be honest.
I'd rather give them to my community
for helping them promote the project.
So what we do is we, of course,
give the community a reason to hold the tokens.
So in this upgrade of our app,
there will be benefits for people who hold the token. So in this upgrade of our app, there will be benefits for people who hold the
token. In our future products, there'll also be benefits for people to hold the token. So I think
you need to give them a reason to hold as well. Otherwise, you could see a bit of a sell-off.
Another thing we have a bit of experiences now in is using the raid bots.
Typically, if you use raid bots, your raids get botted.
And the tokens go to people who are not really long-term holders.
They're just here to farm.
And we've been developing a few different ways of making sure that these token rewards actually go to people who want to be in the project and who believe in the project and want to support the project.
And all of these experiences will go into this new raid bot that we hope we can build and launch at some point in 2026.
That sounds good. That sounds good.
That sounds good.
And once again, super easily,
just don't be scared of rewarding people, right?
There's also some sort of a stigma around rewards,
but if you just rewarding your community
and people that are loyal to,
it makes a lot of sense to do so.
Just share, right?
Like it is just for real based.
So thank you to the Mapuzica
and also the Tidycoin.
Now, as I cannot see giant door,
probably we need to do some fixing in DMs.
Let me invite the two die on the stages,
hopefully pronouncing well.
It's the first time we meet each other,
so thank you for joining.
And we love meeting new people.
So what you guys cooking. And like, we love meeting new people.
So what you guys cooking and building on base?
Happy New Year to you,
Elman. A little bit under the weather
starting New Year.
Nasty bug going around, but I'm very
appreciative to
be on the space with you guys.
Shout out to
D-Bro,
Cat Town, Crunkles. CatTown's also been a long-time friend of the 2Die community. So just to give you a background of what the 2Die project is,
are a full stack creative generative AI, creative AI suite.
So we specialize in images and videos
that can be generated within 5 to 15 seconds.
And we offer soup to nuts turnkey operations
for a number of services for creators, small businesses, you name it.
We've been around for about almost over three years now. And we just migrated to BaseChain
over the last summer because we saw there was opportunities not to we we saw there
was a lot of opportunity to align ourselves with the community that was growing that was growing
and just to be a part of something that that just wasn't there on the L1E chain.
I mean, it felt like more of a desert,
but with base, it felt like a tightening community
where there's potential to reach out and partner.
And so far, it's been a pretty wild ride,
and we're definitely glad to be here.
What makes 2Di different from other generative AI projects out there?
You'll see a lot of our competitors, they are aggregating APIs for Web2 services.
And there's nothing wrong with that. Like, I mean, when you talk about Web2 services, you're talking about Google Nano Banana, Google VO 3.1. And, you know, these are top of the line stuff. But what the problem in doing that is, when you're aggregating APIs, you are already being charged a cost on their end.
And the only way to be able to make a profit off of that model is to upcharge on top of the fees that they are charging you and passing them on to the consumer.
charging you and passing them on to the consumer.
And when you look at that and have,
and when you see someone who's just a creator or someone who's interested in
these types of services,
are they going to come to web three and buy a token to spend more money on
these services that are already out there,
or they're going to go direct and just pay for these services at a cheaper rate.
With 2Di, we are a full proprietary stack.
So all of our stuff, like, I mean, it's been fine-tuned and developed, and we feel that we're able to offer these services of the spaces, which Beats mentioned earlier.
Another big one out there is Higgs Field AI, who is a big, who has a lot of venture capital and, you know, is just slinging out free credits or whatever it may be.
Like, I mean, these guys just have a ton of venture capital money to work with.
So, yeah, those are two big competitors in the space that we identified
that we ultimately compete with.
So with that said, like, we are working on releasing our new,
our studio DAP, which will come with full editing with a full online video
editor to go along with the video generation and image generation. So you should be able to make
some bespoke videos once that's released.
We also are developing
a mini app for the bass app as well
and we like to
hope that we are going to be
have a product
for the bass app that's comparable
to Grok
that's out there.
Now, I mean, we're not going to be
more focused on changing
women out of their regular outfits and bikinis, but we'll
have pretty cool image
editing and video tools that you can go and have
a lot of fun with your friends on there. And the last
faction that, well, one more thing,
we're also developing customized Telegram bots
for a number of memes in the community.
One, which we've partnered with Bob Eftoken,
who's been a long-time AI agent,
one of the first AI agent
memes on Twitter
and we're also going to be
going to be releasing
a custom bot for
the base chats
meme on base
so we're very excited
for that to happen
and look forward to having that
drop in about a week or two.
And then the last facet of 2Die is if you're looking for a professional production, our
creative team is one of the best creative teams in the crypto Twitter space. We recently just wrapped up a six-episode series
of the first comedy sitcom on base,
which was called Kobe Base,
which followed Kobe's new transitions,
Kobe, his transition into a Coinbase employee, I mean, it was written, directed, produced by myself.
Like I said, six episodes strong.
If you're looking for something to laugh at, go and check that out.
Go and check that out. But it's just an example of if you're looking for creative content, you're going to do something original.
But it's just an example.
And, you know, even with AI tools, it's like, I mean, you still got to AI is not going to do everything for you.
Like, I mean, having AI assistance is great to cut down the number of people that you need to get a project done.
But sometimes you still have to have that touch.
And if you don't have it, that's okay.
You can come to our creative studio.
We can sit down and talk about scripting ideas.
sit down, talk and talk about the scripting ideas and we can bring a project of life that
can be really memorable to you and the rest of your community. So yeah, if you're looking to
check us out, we're on Telegram. Just click on the link. Our Telegram link is in our bio.
And we're glad to be in the space.
Again, Elman, appreciate you inviting us out.
Actually, just to mention, Elman, you make a cameo in the most recent Kobe Bayes video. So if you guys want to check out something cool, if you want to point out Elman uh in in in our in our recent holiday special
uh he's in there a couple of times uh again it's all about good fun and laughs and um thank you
very much for giving us the opportunity to speak here today that's very much important to speak
together and speak with new people that's how you expand the network that's how you meet new people that's how you know what's really cooking in changes sometimes yeah like you have people uh
simping on ct but i mean like do you know really what what's happening in the base trenches right
most of them don't so uh here here we are just cooking together meeting new people and focusing
on what's important and it's building the good future for everybody here, right?
So thank you for joining.
By the way, very interesting chart.
If you guys have open Dextools or any other tracker,
just hit that 2-die, pretty much bottom.
Very low MC.
Interesting, interesting, let's say.
NFADR.
Good.
Now let me invite the Pixocci seed project.
Guys, get on the stage and, you know,
let's make us excited about what's cooking in Pixocci.
I already mentioned that the analytics are just blowing up
after the public launch of the base app, right?
So let's get hyped.
Yeah, we are quite hyped happy new year to everyone thanks
for inviting us elnen and hello to all cats residents of cat towns koalas bulls birds
pandas all sorts of animals in here loving it uh great vibe i'm sorry
uh great vibe i'm sorry
i'm sorry no i mean you get the point you get the point don't don't bring it back at me i mean we
we are plants we are nothing different we're probably at the bottom of the food chain for
everyone so that's that's us um yeah so what is Pixachi?
Pixachi is an on-chain play-to-earn game
launched just about two years ago.
We were approaching our second anniversary in just around a month,
in February 13th.
And at its core, it's a very simple game,
but it's complex enough to keep you hooked and always trying
to see what you should do next. So you
start by minting a plant and your core task is to keep it alive and you grow it over time by buying
items like sunlight, fertilizer, water, etc. for your plants to get points. And those points are
what define your Ethereum reward share, which comes from the volume of seed token. So that is the core economic of the game.
And in 2024, September, we expanded the ecosystem into Pixochi lands.
And this in the beginning was a separate app, which is now altogether unified.
But, uh, how it works is it's more of a long-term approach for people who don't
want to spend their seed on the plants because how the game works is it's more of a long-term approach for people who don't want to spend their seed on the plants.
Because how the game works is you have to burn your seed to get items for your plant.
And obviously some people want to hold seed because it could hold value.
It could go up, it could go down, whatever, and they don't want to spend it.
So for those active long-term players, this whole lands extension is where they mint a land and build buildings
on it, upgrade different levels, and it gives them different features and passive production
of points and hours for their plants.
So they don't have to virtually spend any seed.
They only have to stake it.
And everything is fully on chain, all rewards, everything runs on base, all transactions, if you're using BaseApp or any smart wallet, is sponsored.
And in end of 2025, 17th of December, if I'm not mistaken, when BaseApp went live, we saw a huge surge of users coming into the game.
We were featured on the Base apps page next to Cat Town
and other amazing games.
And it's quite a success of a bet we took on our decision.
Because in 2025, we made this decision
to unify all of our ecosystem apps into one
and make it some sort of an hybrid app where
it's like a web app mini app works in forecaster client frames normal browsers desktop and it paid
off so now we have more than 200 i think approaching 300 active players and at some point in the holidays, we had like 10,000 players.
And Pixochi is now saved on around 5,000 phones. So we see a huge activity, huge number of players
asking questions, how to do this, what's the best strategy to play the game. And we just love it.
So in 2026, what we're going to do is we're going to focus on the feedbacks
that we've been getting that we never received at such an amount
during the past two years.
So we are going to be focusing on fixing the bugs, polishing the app,
adding more incentives to the players to increase the retention rate.
Currently, what we did, which was really successful
and we keep extending it,
and for everyone here who hasn't joined the game yet,
you have a free plant to claim on Base app
as long as you have your Twitter account linked
to Base Verify.
So you can claim your free plant,
no transaction, no nothing.
You just sign a message, you receive your plant,
and it's up to you if you want to spend
seeds to rank up up the leaderboards but there are other things you can do for free which could
still help you maintain your plant like arcade games uh playing box games pin leaf or attacking
other players who don't have a fence and i know know that all of these might be like, what do you mean attacking
other plants, attacking other players, fence, et cetera.
These are all documented in our docs.
And we do have an AI assistant in game, which Elnen, believe it or not,
is the most used part of the game.
So that's the credits that we have to keep topping up for the AI assistant.
It's just insane.
People keep asking their questions.
What's the best strategy?
What should I do now?
And how we designed it is that the AI assistant is aware of all of your
belongings in your wallet, your plans, their levels, how much time they have
left before they die.
So you virtually don't have to come to telegram come on twitter dm us how do i do this
what happened it's just you and the ai assistant or if you want there's a public chat where you can
ask your questions so what else we have planned for 2026 is our public release of the solana
integrations there were some talks here in the beginning of this space about Solana crushing base. I don't agree with that, by the way.
But we do believe that what base is doing in terms of trying to breach the communities and not isolate base, we want to be on the same page.
We want to take another bet on what base is doing.
And we're going to soon, hopefully in Q1, open up Pixachi to all native Solana wallets.
And this will work completely seamlessly.
People don't even realize they are not on base.
There will be some features locked out intentionally on base to slowly, I don't
know, incentivize people from Solana to join base.
But if they don't want to, they still get access to all Pixachi elements, game,
economics, rewards.
And this is all thanks to what BASE has built with the Solana Bridge.
And a few more things where we are working on.
I'm not a fan of roadmaps because I believe once you put out something in the public, there's less chance you might get it done.
public, there's less chance you might get it done.
But so we keep working on things behind the scenes.
And when we know they are ready and the community is ready to test it or know about it,
even if you're not going to release it yet, then we will share it.
And it will give us better feedback.
It will be more pleasant for users because they had no idea such a thing is coming.
And now they have it instead of keep checking in when is this coming when is the problem is when is this feature coming and it's quite tricky because with with blockchain you never know what
bottleneck you're gonna hit and your development could be delayed so for for example, the Fusaka upgrade of Ethereum slowed development for us in many
sections of the game with batch transacting, where we couldn't maximize the number of the
transactions in the batch transactions because Vitalik decided the gas limit needs to be
lower. Well, that slowed our development, but that's pretty much it.
There's of course a lot of things to talk about, but if there's any questions or something,
we've been on your spaces, Elin, for a few times, and I'm seeing some familiar faces now,
starting to see familiar faces.
So I don't think we are as brand new to your community as we were before.
So any questions, anything, I'm in the Ellen's chat you can
tag me you can join the community AI assistant everything we're ready to
welcome you wishing you a great 2026 ahead yeah D for your your note you're
no longer strangers to our fam and you know like you're og so you you should be here you belong to us the i mean yeah
we are we are pushing we are grinding every single day we are trying to believe right and
i really loved one thing that you said and that's uh what base team is doing is that we don't want
to be isolated and especially isolated to crypto only community right right? Like we want to be open to normies and that's what Jesse is trying to do with Brian.
And that's the onboarding.
But guys, onboarding is hard, especially during this market.
So it may take some time, right?
In action to actually see, to actually see that people are flowing into base,
that the fresh liquidity is there.
And also it might require another liquidity
movement in general markets right so we need to be patient but of course what we said is that we
need some sort of a balance in between all the pushing of the creator coins and so on we also
need to have memes seen right like i i liked what brian did with the with the russell dog right like
we saw the palm the memes are alive on base we are just waiting with the Russell dog right like we saw the pump the memes
are alive on base we are just waiting for the right momentum right and that's
and that's it just keep believing and sometimes we need to be patient but
that's also with everything in your life right like if it's really want something
you need to be patient and another thing is that you don't you can't have
everything at once you can have everything but you can't have everything at once right so you just need to be patient work on fins and eventually you will have all of them it just requires times and patience yes Justin I see you
um i play the game like every day dude uh i just literally bought 60 dollars worth the
more seed i've been sitting here listening and uh and almost up or seed um let me hang out let me
rephrase that seed and then there's two different coins i can't remember there's seed and then
there's big searching uh yeah there's still there's one you you earn for staking leaf yeah anyways i've just i've been
i've been doing that i've been stacking to stake to keep piling leaf um and i guess one of my
questions was is um i did buy two lands right and i and also too for everybody out there it's not
unlimited there's a certain amount of plants there's a certain amount of lands too so the
whole revenue feedback and everything that kind of goes there, it's
not going to be like, like super liquidated and, and, and, and just tons of
people and drowned out.
There's only a few certain amount of plants.
And I, and I love the Jesse montage that you did in there too, with the plants.
So if anybody doesn't know, and you want to get the Jesse plant, which I
have like four of them, you have to actually use Jesse to mint them, is pretty cool so i love the um the contributions there but the land i was curious
it i was asking the ai but since you're here i'm gonna ask you uh when you get enough uh
leaf urn from staking um what do you what should you start off with first like do you start with
the solar panels or do you go or do you start off with that soil factory or yeah great question uh
first thing uh yes you're right about the limited number of plants uh and lands and one thing to
mention these are all nfts so they're also tradable on open sea or or any NFT marketplace. So I expect at some point, you know, if we hit the
limits of the NFTs, people will have to grab it of other players instead of minting their own.
That's the first thing. And regarding your question, so that really depends on the strategy
of people. What I see people have been doing, players have been doing, they first start building
the farmer house because sending your farmer on Quest can bring you leaf tokens, can bring you seed
tokens, can bring you points, can bring you hours.
And with that, then they start building the other village buildings, so-called, where
there are the production ones.
So that I think would work best because you can start making up the seed
that you spend on the land.
And it's also more fun to send your farm to farmer on quest.
It brings different rewards every time.
And if you upgrade it based on different difficulties
that you choose the quest to be, you might get more rewards.
And we will be tweaking these rewards
to include Jesse token,
Pixochitoken, and possibly other type of rewards and games that we might collaborate with later.
So that's my opinion. Again, it's all up to you, all of each player. I suggest
either ask in the chat or in Telegram the community how they think it's the best,
but this is the pattern I've noticed, by the way, appreciate
you playing on your feedback.
It really means a lot to us.
No, no, absolutely.
And I guess my I don't want to drag it on too long.
So the quest, I mean, the quest, like, where do you, where do you
see the quest at in the game?
I guess I've never really.
So when you tap on your line, when you tap on your land, you have two
sections, town and village.
So the village is where you have your production buildings and the town is
where you have the buildings that offer you functions.
Um, in the town, you can see there's a former house.
If you have built it, you can start using it.
If not, then you build it.
You wait for a few days until the town.
Okay.
I see the steakhouse and then the warehouse.
Yeah.
Okay.
There you have it.
There you will be building your former house.
Boys are back in town.
Boys are back in town.
Dude, that reminds me of the old school days when I used to skateboard a lot.
And my friend had this shirt.
It really said, boys in the hood, and had two guys popping out of the hood with their skateboards it was like yeah boys in the hood baby oh my bad boys
are back on base right after the holidays thank you for answering my question so i was just curious
on that because um i've been i've been just going through i mean i probably shouldn't do it but i
make sure there's a fence like every day i go and i attack plants and i just constantly like every day buy one of the sun the water
the bucket oh one last thing is like when i when i do go to the marketplace now that i know that's
being burnt i'm going to watch what i do with that seed but um when i select the sun and then i select
like the water and i don't think it's check it out with both of them. When I do check out, I'll send a message to you in the chat. I don't know when I when I've hit like the sun.
Yeah, I think I know. I think I know what you mean. It's a feature we'll need to be adding. But yeah, feel free to reach out to me in the DMS and I will make sure I explain everything to you in details.
Thank you, sir.
Let's go. Let's go. Now, let me invite the doji uh with the home also
um another og that has been uh cooking that have been cooking on base for long long long now launch
the home right if i'm mistaken so let's get the story out then uh what you cooking bro
hey what's up my peoples dude i just want to say hi to everybody first like i have there's so many
amazing builders here but not only that i have so many friends here like most of you people in here
like my friends and it's just awesome you know we got one eye we got midas we got crunkles from
cat town d bro elman i consider you a friend we got slop it down there if i'm missing anybody i'm
sorry i'm kind of afraid to touch my browser because this thing keeps on lagging me out. So I'm just not even looking at
it. But yeah, dude, I appreciate the moment. And I'm just so happy to have made all these
connections with you awesome people. It speaks like galaxies that, you know, some people even
mention my name when it comes to things and I'm so appreciative
and that's the power of support
and friendship on chain
I'm going to talk about home
but I'm not really going to shill it
I'm not going to do a bullet point shill
because that's not what home is
home is something far greater than that
home is a shared universal
feeling that any being in existence undergoes.
And I've tokenized it and put it on chain and put it on my home.
I put it on base.
Basically, let me just give you a little story how this kind of all started.
So I started my journey on base maybe a year, year and a half ago.
I don't really know the times anymore.
Time feels slow, fast, but it's home, right?
So yeah, I started my journey, found some amazing projects, amazing builders, amazing people.
I really liked Web3 Gaming, so that got me in here.
I discovered Cat Town, their amazing project.
Listening to their updates and their roadmap for
2026 sounded crazy.
I got so hyped. I just, I get
invigorated by the energy that
I feel from the space and the builders that
appear. I'm aware of other games
such as Pixtochi.
Great game.
We also have Tokimon,
another amazing
Web 3 game.
And I wish I could just like name them all,
but there's obviously not enough time for that.
There's not enough time to name all the products
in the world, but that's where I started.
I started with Web3 Gaming.
And through that, I found out that Bass was my home.
And there's so many homes and you don't have to just have
one home and be part of one project. You can support many homes and you don't have to just have one home be part of one project
you can support many people and you can explore and you can experiment and you could then you
know learn things then through these avenues that you find that you happen to call home
you could then bolster yourself and i never thought i would be where i am today but then
you know through knowledge and experience and just connecting with people, I've learned
that I have access to tools on this great platform called Base that is open protocol
to everybody.
And I could make things that I never thought I could make before through vibe coding.
And it's just crazy how this could shape and change you
and just change your perception of who you are and bring alive the ideas that you always held
closely to you throughout your whole life. And I think it's so beautiful. So what I did was I
wanted to tokenize that feeling of just this perpetual existence, whether it's good or it's bad.
It's all seen and based on perception.
And that's what home is.
Home is perpetual existence within what you find to be safe in.
And like I said, it could be on both sides of the spectrum.
It even would be right in the middle of the spectrum you'll always find home wherever you are
whether it's good whether it's like happy or sad so how home kind of came
into existence was I was having like a crash out day I was chilling in bass
rooms made by Slava you know it's a member of Ohara which is a really great home for five coders um I'm scratching out
you know it's like dude why do I do this every day why am I showing up in this space why am I
doing crypto why am I trying to manage projects and I was like I have Stockholm syndrome now like
I freaked out I screamed I was like. I'm like really getting all emotional and stuff. And I'm like, dude, I'm like, that's it. This is it. And like,
immediately I just flipped the script from like, I'm sick of this to like, oh, this is it. This
is actually it. We're going to launch this. It's going to be home on base. It's going to represent
that feeling that we have where you're in the face of true adversity, but you still keep pushing through it. So I
transmuted those vibes of just down and just like uncertainty and moved it into something that means
something, into perseverance. And that's what home is. Home is finding perseverance in whatever
situation you are, economical, where you're living, or whatever it could be mentally or spiritually.
Everybody is home. This exists perpetually within every being that has taken a breath,
that has thought, that has created, that has built something. Home is a tokenized feeling
and emotion. And it is, I don't want to say this word because it's a no-no word, but it is the first of its kind.
It is the first H-O-L-M ticker.
There's nothing like it.
I tokenized it.
We all experience it.
And it's something that we all share forever.
and I mean what I say to people is like you know memes are memes yeah they're really not much more
than that you invest in or you put money to what do you want to say I'm trying not to mention
money here but you you know put your interest in attention in virality home is so simple yet so complex it has the ability to evolve into things that
i i never thought it would all i did was just make a picture of a a home that is drawn in crayon
looks like a child drew it it is so minimalistic that it fits everywhere and it can evolve into anything. And I've seen people
take that image and create cities around it and build skyscrapers or put it in like a rural area
with like farms and stuff. They had Jesse freaking farming rice paddies right next to home. And I
thought that was the coolest thing ever. It's just crazy seeing what community can do with memes and it's insane and I just
love the energy that's behind all of this and home is
supposed to be everybody's home. It's not
gatekept. It's for every single person. We want to do a mass
collaboration and we want to add all our friends to our banner.
If you're interested in doing that, great projects like Midas, collaboration. Hey, we want to add all our friends to our banner. You know, whether, you know, if
you're interested in doing that, you know, like great projects like Midas, like Cat Town, Beats,
I love what you're doing. I don't know if you ever want to connect, but we can connect. I love Tidy.
Tidy just spoke here not two moments ago. Tidy is amazing. They help us keep a clean home
because they help people clean out their wallets with unused tokens
and the dust and stuff.
And it's great what they provide.
And what we do here at home and what my biggest superpower here in this space is that I've
connected with all these individuals and I personally can verify them.
And I can give you a home to rest and be assured that if you're looking for places in Web3
where you want to fit in or you want to find your own homes, that I can direct you there. And that's my personal
utility. And we're building a whole bunch of other stuff around it as well. But like I said, it wasn't
supposed to be a shill. I think the most beautiful thing about crypto is personal discovery. So we
have a lot of cool things and I'm going to keep making cool things, but you're have to discover that for yourself and i can open the door for you to my home but you're
gonna have to walk in that was beautiful almost like a summer laugh or so right oh yeah like i i also um indeed made a personal discovery and that's uh over the holiday
season guys do not mix beer do not do not mix wine and do not mix eggnog that's not a good
combination next to this all the spirit we had with the fam so that's my personal yeah my stomach
hearts just hearing that it sounds terrible i bet you really
felt at home when you're hanging over your toilet bowl for like five hours
that's also a whole whole uh level of a feeling right of course of course like that oh my god
yeah um great that was good but uh what I like about you is basically the community around, right?
Like that's people that you have around, you trust, the family.
And we have quite a lot of good people in here.
So just keep growing.
And if you can, support the people from our circles right here,
like who speak with us, who are spending the time here to present what they build on.
So let's keep supporting our family.
And it really doesn't have to be a buy, right?
It could have just been an interaction on the Twitter, a follow,
a nice word being dropped in the TG.
Really, like, don't underestimate those little gestures, right, of being nice to others.
So just be a good fan.
That's for sure.
And with this, thank you.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
It is lagging a little bit now.
I'm sure everything you said was amazing, your base chat, and I give you an uptick, a vote
on that.
You know, our members just keep creating, too.
It's crazy.
There's a lot of mini-apps on
BaseApp. We have a MogGo
home game that one of our friends
made here from the
Mog community. We have
a level of despair type game
of home, and then you go through all these different
types of levels, and eventually you find that
you're home, but you've
always been home in a way.
I have this little native app that i made that kind of goes over like the influx of gas prices and once
we get time to mint or buy token or deploy something i just need to stop you i think
that was a cool little thing i made that you're cracking a lot dodgy, probably some network, right? Yeah, yeah, right. So let me just say this.
Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Thank you for the opportunity, guys.
Yes, it was good, it was good. Just the connection in the end.
But actually, beforehand, it was all good. So no worries.
Just in the end. But that happens sometimes with the network.
If you guys have the Twitter open,
let's check the Jumbotron.
Here you have the whole Twitter.
Let's smash this.
And we are moving to another OG,
that's William here,
and he will present the BaseGuardF, right?
Also a project that done some numbers lately.
Let's say relatively so William let's
jump on stage and speak a little about the base guard F and why you pushing it
so much right like I've seen you shilling all day long good morning Elman
good morning Justin Arlo thanks for having me up I've been a little bit sick
too just like today was but I'm. I'm happy to be here.
Yeah, you've definitely probably at times been annoyed with me for shilling base cards so much.
But I'll go into, kind of just real quick, what my role is.
I'm kind of speaking today as an advisor, but really mostly as a community member.
I got on board real early, and I've been a crypto guy for, I got in in 2011,
but I've been pretty much day trading since 2020 very actively.
And I've retired from crypto, had some incredible wins that have allowed me to do so.
And I kind of took on a retirement role, helping action sports companies in the skate, surf and snow industry to set up their own digital asset reserves and have also helped out the
Panama Canal project in onboarding crypto for payments for crossings. So I've been helping out
there doing marketing. But my role with BaseGuard is, you know, completely unpaid. I just I'm a
very, very avid believer in the project and have been since day one. And so for me, it was kind of
a, let me come out and get on some spaces for him. The dev for the team, it's a one man show. He is,
he's a math quant guy. I mean, he is just the dev who's got his head down and it's building. He is
not big on spaces and, and that part of the, the project. And so he's done a great job of kind of
filling some of those roles. He recently added a community manager who's CryptoStorm down there in the audience. And he's also behind the
BaseGuard account, which has been super helpful from a marketing push. We needed that,
you know, somebody to kind of just take over the day-to-day posting on X and a very active
Telegram community. And we all know how important those things are.
But myself, I came in and I immediately started using the app.
And that's where I like to kind of point the focus to is the safety that this offers the community.
BaseGuard is a free app.
You can, or not app, rather a website that you can log into.
And it's baseguard.dev.
You log in, you can put in any contract address from base,
any NFT address from a base NFT or any wallet,
which is so cool, that feature.
And you can punch it in and just get a full one spot dashboard analysis
of what you're looking at for that project.
And that came in so helpful for me,
somebody who trades as actively as I do.
I mean, I'm in and out of tokens all day, whether it's just day trading and scalping
or buying in and waiting for the right time to pull out, et cetera, et cetera.
Anybody who's a trader understands that.
So it's such a useful tool because you can go in and really get a quick snapshot of what
you're looking at rather than having to go to like 30 different places.
Normally, you have to go to Dex Greenerer, you have to go to eScan, you got to go to 10 different
places to kind of get the information on the project that you're looking at buying. And some
of that stuff takes a lot of time. And then even apart from that, just the fact that you're having
to jump multiple places, whereas you log into BaseGuard, you can just punch in that contract
address and get a really,
really concise but full analysis of a project. And it helps you make those split decisions for
trading and it keeps people safe. And that's where I got passionate about it because we've
all seen so many people get rugged in this space. We've been rugged ourselves on projects many times.
So any tool that's out there that helps to offset that risk factor, I think is a
huge win. So for me, kind of newer to base, I came over and I've spent a lot of years in B&B,
on ETH, and Avalanche, even Phantom, you know, back when it was Phantom. And I've done very well,
I've had a lot of fun, but this tool, I just immediately was drawn to because it's so useful some of the kind of cool bullet points on it are you know
the wall the wallet and now I think it's huge you can scan a ball on base
the creator's wallet you can see if there's anything flat.
I haven't seen any comments.
One of the ones I found was,
has 10 different
tracks that had been launched on that wallet before.
So it was
Is it me?
Is it me is it me or
William is cutting and I was gonna
unmute and say something too because I was
unsure yeah but
but yeah like overall it
seems like today's spaces are causing
this kind of lacks
so it is not normal to see
such a name out of cast having
such an issue but
yeah William let's uh try to speak
yeah can you guys hear me okay yeah now now it is better so I guess you were spitting fire so
you needed to cool down you know it running the mic too hot oh yeah I don't know I don't know
where I left off but I'll kind of um you I'll kind of recap on the wallet side of it.
Being able to check founders' wallets is critical.
I mentioned, and I don't know if it came through, but the wallet that I posted in the second or third comment below,
you can see that there was a wallet that I scanned.
It was a founder wallet, and it had 10 malicious past contracts that had been created under it.
So things like that are just so valuable. The thing
that I think is cool about BaseGuard is it's really easy for users, whether they're very
well experienced, whether you've ever deployed your own smart contract, or if you're just a total
noob and, you know, just learning how to, you know, bridge funds or whatever it may be. It has
that level for everybody to kind of access these things because it's such a simple, straightforward,
for everybody to kind of access these things because it's such a simple, straightforward,
you know, dashboard. You just punch in the contract address or select wallet or NFT.
But yeah, I just think it's, you know, it's one of those tools that more people need to use. So I
was excited to kind of come on the space and speak about it and share and just get more people using
it. It's an invaluable, invaluable tool for people who are trading regularly. It does have a token associated
with it. And I kind of think of the base guard token, almost like a stock, like you're buying
into the company, which is not something we hear very often in crypto. It has kind of the same
built in mechanisms where you can earn, you know, revenue share from the app, which does have some
a few different sources for revenue right now,
primarily the swap on there. And I've personally received airdrops from it and made some great money. But there's a lot of things he's working on that are coming in the near future that will
generate even more revenue from that stream. So it is exciting to hold the token as well. And of
course, it's done an amazing job. I bought into it from Base.meme, which is a token launcher.
And I get asked often why the dev chose to use a meme token launcher rather than just
deploying his own contract.
And really, the response is pretty simple.
He wanted to focus on the website and what he was building and wanted a smart contract
that had built-in safety features, which Base.meme does, has a built in audience. As soon as you launch on these token
launchers, it's almost frustrating that they always have the name meme attached to them because
they're really, they're just token launchers. It can be a utility token. It can be a meme. It can
be just about anything, protocol, governance, whatever you might want it to be. But, you know, I thought it was a
smart move because you do get a built-in audience right away. When you have a website that has a
product already associated with it, it makes it easier to buy with less risk right out the gates.
You're not looking at it going, oh, is this guy going to rug me? You know, you already see that
there's a product there. So that was an easy no-brainer buy for me. I bought in very early.
So I, of course, do well when the project does well.
But I've used it so many times.
I use it several times a day, and I encourage people to use it all the time.
So it's definitely a passion for me,
and that's probably why I've spammed Elmin's poor thread so many times.
I'm like, what people do?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But no, actually, I'm really trying to watch all my replies going on.
Like basically throughout the day I'm trying to like those that I like.
And yeah, like it takes a lot of time, but I'm actually watching and I'm in the comments.
Also like myself, I'm a reply guy.
I'm also like Shillin.
like uh shilling i'm i'm all yeah i'm i'm just the reply guy here who just loves bass and trying to
just just push and give back right but if you have some alpha i'm trying to watch but this one
uh is sadly missed because i think you chill it through uh the holiday season or or shortly before
and yeah like i was i was off charts just charts just doing the shuttle posts, right?
So I missed fucking hell.
The chart looks great.
Yeah, well, I got in when it was 3,000 market cap.
It was pre-bombing.
No way.
Yeah, I got in very early.
Holy shit.
And I posted it and you're fantastic.
And actually, you commented, you know, you are definitely a fantastic reply guy.
But you did comment on it and you said, this looks interesting because it has a website.
It was, it was.
Yeah.
But seeing the website, the founder has continuously shipped and really doesn't have a white paper, but the website acts kind of as a white paper and roadmap because he posts a lot of the things up there that are coming soon.
And I've watched those things statistically come to life or not statistically consistently come to life. He's
done a great job really just delivering update after update after update. So there's there's
products on there now that you can use the trending and the new pairs. I use all the time.
It gives you a trending feed on what's buzzing on social media and on kind of the DEX
tools as far as rockets being lifted up on projects. And then it aggregates that into a
signal for trending, which gives you kind of a heads up on, hey, there's some activity happening
with this new token. Maybe I should look at it and potentially speculate on it. And then also
the new pairs created tab under the menu is fantastic
because you get to see immediately these new pairs that are created for a new token.
And you can see right away which ones have good liquidity. You kind of get an eye on which ones
have, you know, those real products attached to them, whether there's a website or a Twitter
account. And, you know, just kind of streamlines the process of day trading and speculating on tokens and winning more often.
My win ratio through December since this tool came out.
I mean, it's insane.
I'm up just in December over $80,000.
And that's, you know, just speculation from the project's calls that it has delivered for me.
So I'm loving it.
I'm a huge fan of it. I'm sure, you know, Waldo and Panda and Doji and Midas, all these guys have been hearing me talk about it
on my feed for two months now or a month and a half now.
And I can't speak highly enough about the team.
Nice, nice.
That's based.
That's based.
Actually, thank you for joining.
And, you know, it's like speaking with us.
And so, yeah, like you are not directly the team member but still
like you you made it here and speaking uh this this uh community and also platform let's say
the spaces isn't only for the founders looking for the networking right but it is also to share
the alpha to just be here with the people and so yeah like we have fantastic people around so let's
capitalize on it, right?
Let's grow and let's support each other.
That's all about that.
So thank you, Will, for joining
and pushing the Alphabet BaseGuard.
It was great.
Thanks again for having me.
Appreciate it, brother.
Thank you as well.
And now it is time for Brandon speaking
on behalf of the Giant Door.
Guys are releasing something quite, quite big the next week.
So let's get us hyped and, you know, just extend the word about the project,
about yourself and what's coming.
Hey, hello. Hopefully everyone can hear me.
Thank you for the introduction, Ellen.
It's a pleasure to be here.
Basically, so I guess I'll start with myself.
So sorry, I'm not really quite used to spaces.
Basically, my name is Brandon.
I'm the founder of ITC, where a small group of developers
that have recently, I shouldn't say recently,
it's been a couple of months now,
we've decided to build on base.
And so we're building Gendor, which is obviously the account that I'm under here at the moment.
And Gendor, in just one sentence very quick, is a BTC backed CDP based stablecoin solution.
So what that means is it's similar to MakerDAO in the sense that you have BTC, specifically
CBBTC, you can deposit it into the protocol and you can mint GendUSD, which is the US backed stablecoin and sell that
and basically leverage your Bitcoin, CBBTC specifically
without having to sell.
So again, similar to MakerDAO.
So if you guys are familiar with that,
but I'll obviously walk through what that sort of entails.
So it's basically a platform that has two components to it.
You have the stability side, which is obviously GenUSD,
which is a really nice asset because it's backed by BTC.
It's also immutable as well.
The protocol's functionality is just from day one,
it's set, it's immutable.
So we're really sort of sticking to that ethos.
And then obviously you have the leverage component
and actually utilizing your asset,
which is obviously the fact of like you're locking in your BTC
and you're minting and leveraging against that.
So yeah, that's GenDor in a nutshell.
We're pretty excited because we're very, very close and we've shared this already with a
couple of people, just our MVP, but we're very close to a public testnet.
So I think in a couple of weeks, and also when we get a bit of more of a marketing campaign
behind us as well, you know, people will be more familiar.
We're excited because we're also the first as well,
we're the first CDP-based product coming onto BASE,
which I mean, given that BASE is about two years old now,
which is still relatively young
in regards to a layer two solution and even layer one, right?
It is surprising that there hasn't been any CDP-based products yet.
So it's a title that we didn't really plan to have initially when building
because we thought something would already, you know, have popped up.
But, you know, we're happy to also be the first in that category.
So we're hoping to do it justice and really putting our sweat and all into this as well.
So, yeah, I think people are going to be excited.
And I think if you have CBBTC
and you've been looking at the rates on,
you know, you've been looking for a native solution
on base to borrow against it
that is specifically tailored for it.
Obviously we have, you know, fantastic money markets
such as Aave and Morpho.
But when it comes to actually having a CDP-based product
built around it,
just given that the CDP-based model
is actually a lot more efficient,
you know, you can actually, yeah, it's quite exciting
to actually have, I would say,
Gendor as the product for you, right?
So yeah, before I go on a bit of a tangent with that,
that's kind of Gendor in a short, longish summary,
if you will.
Sounds great.
Also, I heard that the tg is coming right so what we need to accomplish
to just jump in on base right launch the token what's cooking like um if you can mention some
of the bullish bullish uh fence that you cook also for the future let's mention because yeah
like the what is coming is just the first step.
And we spoke about a couple of the milestones
that are coming shortly.
So let's mention the info that you can,
as you, of course, don't want to overshill
or spill something you can't.
So let's do it.
Yeah, for sure.
So we definitely have a couple of sort of like
key anchor points throughout.
So obviously I've mentioned,
we plan to ramp up or start a marketing campaign
sometime next week.
Once we start that, that's a key thing.
But sort of just even taking that back forwards,
the key thing for us first is to launch without a token.
So Gendul does have a token, it's G-Y-N-D,
and that token allows you to access
the revenue of the protocol.
So it's a 70-30 split, so 72% goes to the stability pool.
The stability pool is basically just a backstop
for liquidations.
So again, if people are familiar with the liquidity model, it's basically people that are staking GenUSD. In the stability pool, you're acting as a
backstop for liquidations, and you're also providing a utility for GenUSD. So you're kind
of acting as a supplier if you were talking in a traditional money market sense, right?
Because obviously, when someone mints GenUSD from collateral, the CBBTC, there has to be a reason to actually
buy GenUSD in the first place.
And that's the main function of that comes in the form of the stability pool.
So 70% goes to the stability pool and 30% goes to the GenD token.
So what's really cool about that is the protocol generates revenue and it's real revenue.
It's basically borrower's interest, not basically. It's the interest of borrowers on the platform.
So when you stake Gendee, you're getting 30% of that revenue from day one,
and it's every single block.
So you can stake it.
You can unstake it.
There's no lockup periods, and you're getting rewards every single block as well.
So if the protocol has, let's say, a TVL of XYZ amount,
and you know that it's, let's say, 5% interest,
and you're getting 30% of that
given in a pro rata fashion to all the Gen D token stakers.
That's a nice way of just getting the value of that.
All that stuff aside though,
we do plan to launch without a token.
We just want the focus to be primarily
just on just the product itself.
So, because you tend to enter this point where
if you do release a token, all the
attention and all the focus goes towards the token.
So we're trying to sort of avoid that and just have this very much more organic
sort of like product based sort of like launch.
Right.
So we'll launch the product, the product will build up TVL, will build up user base,
will build up attention, will just build up those connections as well.
And integrations as well, importantly for GenUSD.
So whether it's Morpho or getting pulls on Euler, et cetera,
that's important.
And then all the aspects with TGE, et cetera,
that can come at a later date.
So at first, we're just kind of focused on just that.
Because we've noticed a real sort of a gap in the market.
And I did allude to it before,
but I don't think I did it justice.
There's no CDP-based products on base.
There's no native solutions,
which is still kind of crazy.
And we're sort of coming in first here.
And it's quite exciting in that aspect.
And we're hoping to also deliver specifically
with that sort of category, a BTC backed solution. Because Bitcoin, and you know, a lot of people, a lot of us do talk about sort of other asset types and just altcoins primarily. But however you feel about Bitcoin, it is still king. And it is still one of those, it is still just a appreciating asset that just has performed very well over the long term.
You know, you might not get the 10xs or 20 or 30xs of the altcoin space,
but at the same time, it is just acting as the index fund of all crypto, right?
It is kind of that stability hedge there.
So whether, you know, you're talking about the S&P 500, the Dow Jones or the Nasdaq,
Bitcoin kind of is the best arguably that the crypto space can represent.
Bitcoin kind of is the best, arguably, that the crypto space can represent.
So yeah, we thought it was really important just to build a product focused around that.
So GenDor does Bitcoin backed lending in a sense.
It's a Bitcoin backed stablecoin and that is it.
That's all the asset.
It's immutable from day one as well.
And it's a focus on Bitcoin, specifically CDddc because we do feel that coinbase's wrap bitcoin variant is the strongest it's the most trustworthy and it also has the
best liquidity and also integrations given the fact that we're actually building again on base
um so yeah that's uh that's a bit of a mouthful there but i hope that sort of um touched on all
the points nice nice thank you so you feel bullish about 2026
100 100 i think it's just like i think we've had this error uh in crypto and it's it's shifting
now right where the focus has um been unfortunately on these very speculative plays that don't really
have a community behind it or they don't really have any sort of revenue. Because to me, when I look at a project or, you know, when someone sort of tells me he's
building something, et cetera, my first question, and maybe this is just because it's always been
a bear market whenever, when I entered crypto and I've just, I've seen the bears, I've seen
more bears than bulls, if you will. I've always sort of, you know, my first question is, does it make money on-chain?
Like, is there an on-chain revenue source, right? And is there a revenue source for stop in general,
right? And what happens with crypto, and it's because it's, you know, it's still a very young
space, is there might be, the answer to that sort of varies, and which, you know, is not ideal.
And if the answer is anything sort of like,
okay, we don't have any sort of revenue models on chain,
but we do plan to have these integrations off chain and et cetera,
that comes with just a lot of risk, right?
And I prefer like a very simple model, I would sort of argue,
where it's like, you know, there's such liquidity,
there's such user base, there's such a tension
with just these on-chain DeFi
primitives, right? Why would you not build something in line with that, right? Why would
you not access that sort of user base? Because it's really quite brilliant, right? You're able
to connect, you're able to go to a website of a project, you're able to connect your Metamask
wallet, your Ravi wallet, whatever it is, and you're able to interact with the smart contracts
and you're able to, that's able to garner value for the platform, whether it's in trading fees
or et cetera. That's a very beautiful business model versus having this. And I'm not saying
that there is no space for it, but having a bit of a crypto hybrid where you're like,
you're getting money off chain and there's a trust component of you having to send that back
to the token holders of some sort. And it just kind of gets messy. So I do sort of prefer where
it's, I do prefer where the space is heading, where the first
questions are, okay, what's the business model?
If you can't explain the business model in a sentence or two, then I'm either not interested
or my interest has slipped significantly.
And also, you know, what is the long-term sort of outlook on this?
And also, if you have all of that going for you, fantastic.
Do you take
that value and give it back to token holders in the form of like buybacks or in the form of uh
staking you know ideally it's it's immutable like it's fixed into the contracts itself right
like you can't just sort of um have this entity that can decide to do a buyback or not do a buy
buyback right so um yeah i think we're kind of heading into more fundamentals base. And
it's funny because I say all of that, but like, as soon as we get a bull market, everyone's
going to forget and we'll be back to that. We'll be back to a bit more speculation and
et cetera and a bit of that. But it's also good as well because I think there's, that's
kind of the ethos of the space, right? Where it's like, there's room for everything and
crypto is always kind of lean towards more of a speculative play but um i think it i think it's um it's good when we don't go 80 20 where it's 80
speculation and 20 just um you know fundamentals um because yeah we've seen what happens there
and it's just yeah right now guys the discussion is open so anyone who wanna chip in with some
uh just feel free to do so
just jump on stage just be respectful to others right uh if you want you can raise your hand i
will save you up and moderate but if you right now have something to say let's go for it
justin uh just a quick quick one for d bro um how long ago were you into skating brother
i heard you mention that oh dude that was a long time ago um i was sponsored by brotherhood
skate shop and skateboarding um in long beach uh fort byers florida oh okay because there's
a brotherhood in long beach too okay cool yeah i know i remember that they they i don't know if you remember okay so you know brotherhood yeah they're like super old school
like i remember it was like almost like the first or second like major skate shop that was out there
and uh they had the pal decks you know they're big on the blank pal decks yep but the shapes
yeah yeah yeah it was the cheapest boards right you go out you break them do anything but you're
like oh 25 a pal deck whatever i'm gonna beat the crap out of it right especially when you
needed to save the money back in the day because your parents weren't buying you a deck
yeah but and then back in the day i used to i used to love getting the ccs catalogs in the mail and
i would try to sneak my mom's credit card you know what i'm like the skate shoes are the best bro
be rocking osiris's at school i'd be like oh my god ever
i'd be like somebody be like what's wrong with your shoe like that's shoot that's shoe glue baby
you know my uh i've been doing too many kickflips you know oh my god the ccs catalog was like playboy
for me it was my porn i just freaking drool over that magazine it's hard not to decks trucks
bearings wheel everything everything yeah yeah shoes clothes shirts the whole the whole nine rule over that magazine. It's hard not to. Decks, trucks, bearings, wheels. Everything. Everything.
Yeah. Shoes, clothes, shirts, the whole nine yard banners, like everything you wanted.
I put NHS and DC both on digital asset reserves. So both of those, NHS owns Santa Cruz and
Independent and a bunch of other, they're the distribution company that owns that those brands but i built a digital asset reserve for them recently and i did dc's a year ago with
bitcoin or a little over i've known danny way a long time i think you and i briefly chatted about
this a while back but yeah that's just funny i always love hearing the skate stories yeah man
i grew up doing it i used to skate man i mean it was literally like the slogan skater die
right it was like and it was like here we would get all hyped we didn't have we didn't have youtube
and shit at the time right so we had we had this the vhs's of the skate skate edits and we go you
watch those and you would get all pumped you'd be like all right he hit that rail all right i found
the staircase over here at this church.
It looks pretty good.
Well, you got the whack, man? Like, yeah, yeah.
I think that's the reason why the kids progress so quick now
is they have access to just nonstop content on YouTube
and through the social medias.
They see these tricks, and they calculate how to do them much easier and faster than we used to do with VHS tapes.
Because it's like, even before, I started skating way before 411 came out.
And then skated through when 411 came out.
And 411 was like, holy crap, we're getting regular content from it.
But yeah.
Anyways, not to hijack the space elvin i just i always love sharing that
and it's i think it's so cool that you know it like in the end we have this debrief periods to
kind of drop anything that we have on minds right like where you have a space or with 100 people to
just chat about stuff right yeah yeah so just share the passion i used to it because I used to skate as well.
I'm like, oh, sorry.
No, I was just going to say it's relevant because these brands are exposed to Web3.
I mean, I've helped them build these reserves and some of them, like Oakley, I helped build one.
And they're utilizing the revenue from staking models to help pay out lawsuits from optic lawsuits, especially ones that are related to.
They get a lot of lawsuits for
knockoff products that have nothing to do with them. But it ends up just being cheaper to just
settle a small claim than it is to prove that it was a knockoff from China. And so, you know,
a lot of times these companies are just trying to find ways to pay these lawsuits out of revenues
rather than out of anything coming from a real bottom line. And crypto has such a high revenue yield in certain projects that it's, you know, a far
more effective way for them than it is to utilize, you know, traditional stock markets.
So it's kind of fun and I thought it was relevant.
Can I ask on that as well in regards to yield?
Because that's a huge component with Jendor that we're building.
What do you prefer, or I guess just in general for anyone in general, are you guys fans of the locking system, right?
Where you can obviously get greater yields if you lock your token for X amount of time,
or would you prefer a system where you're getting moderate yield as obviously as the platform grows, that yield increases. But obviously people are obviously arbitraging that
by like buying the token because the ROI just goes higher
and the market will naturally arbitrage that.
Like do you prefer like a unlock sort of,
you know, you can stake and withdraw
and you just get that yield every block
or are you happy with like locking your tokens?
So I'll chime in on that.
And it's a two-part answer, really,
because I think from a project point of view,
it's better to have both
if you have the opportunity to do and build both options
because you have so many people coming in
who don't necessarily have the ability to hold long-term.
So you just offer a much lower return on that
versus the long-term holder.
Like myself, I can go in and lock funds up. If I'm getting a great yield for it, hell yeah, I'll on that versus the long-term holder. Uh, like myself,
I can go in and lock funds up. If I'm getting a great yield for it, hell yeah, I'll lock it up.
I don't care, you know? Um, and so there's, there's so many people in this space who put
themselves in a situation where they think they're going to be able to hold for a while. And we've
all seen this so, so often, those are the guys who end up having to sell at a loss. Um, and so
I'd like to see more opportunities for those guys to be able to get into almost like a liquid CD where you have a lower rate Node season, but during the Node season, a lot of people locked funds into Nodes
really without truly understanding what they were doing,
and they locked those funds up forever,
and they were able to get a return from them essentially forever.
Some of the projects just completely disappeared,
but that scared a lot of people out of those locking mechanisms.
I personally love them because they do pay a higher way.
If you do lock it, do you have any concerns in regards to the principle?
Because that's also a thing I hear where it's like, okay, if I lock it, I'm happy with the
yields, but I don't know if my principle is going to be worth 50% or less by the time
the lock finishes.
Yeah, like an imperative loss or impairment loss.
You know, yeah, I think that's part of the risk
of putting something in long-term.
Projects that I like to invest personally in long-term,
I like to look for a lot of liquidity
and in addition to just normal liquidity,
regular addition to it.
So if you've got even a lower market cap project
that has a higher liquidity ratio,
I'll put money in because it's so much more stable.
And then if you have the ability to continue to add to, like I see projects that I think are clever or utilizing,
like if PixToshi were to take some of their revenue that they generate from the game and just regularly add that to liquidity,
that helps stabilize that token across the board all the time as the game continues,
so that it would be really interesting to me to invest in a longer-term stake there
and locking it in with them.
But yeah, that's the key for when I look for them.
Okay, okay. That's fair. That's fair.
What would you, just last question on that,
what would you say is a decent liquidity amount for a token in general?
And this is, I guess this is also for a stablecoin token as well, because that's important here,
and just a general utility token as well. That is such a loaded question.
For me, long-term staking, I'd love to see as close to 50% as possible. I know that's a challenge
for a lot of projects, but I also think that a lot of projects are missing huge opportunities to add to their liquidity regularly. I mean, I've seen, you know, projects that have huge
communities. I'm like, you can do something as stupid as creating an Amazon account that has,
that pays out the, what do you call it, the affiliate links. And you can have your community
just add items to it. And then you guys are getting community or getting the affiliate link revenue from it
and put it right into liquidity.
So let's say I'm Midas
and we create a giant shopping list on Amazon
and any community member,
because they've got a massive community,
they add their toilet paper that they like to buy to it
and they just add that to it
and they have an affiliate link for it.
And then they use that to buy.
It's free money.
Amazon's just gonna pay them out a monthly check that they earned an affiliate link usage,
and then they can just pump that into liquidity.
For projects with huge communities, that can generate, you know, $5,000 to $10,000 a month going into liquidity and even bigger.
But that's just kind of a silly example of it but there's so many ways to to generate revenue outside the space without pulling it from other projects uh that i think needs to be utilized more and this is i have a phd in economy uh or in economics i i love talking anything
economy wise especially when it's token economy um but yeah i'll go into this stuff all day i love it
no no it's super insightful.
Like you don't get many, like, I mean, this is why I love spaces, right?
You don't get many of these sort of like touch points where you can directly talk to just,
they don't have to be consumers, just like people on the ground that are trading,
that are actually knowledgeable about DeFi.
So like, it's nice and refreshing.
So thank you for the feedback.
So thank you for the feedback.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Thank you for the information.
And yeah, general feedback as well.
And yeah, general feedback as well.
I appreciate it.
I would say the smartest move too
that I've been seeing,
especially with them last year
when we brought five companies on chain
and everything else too.
And once they discover and learn about,
and it's happening right now too
as we build for DOMS and Driven Labo
and their RWAs and as it's happening right now too, as we build for Dom's and driven Labo and there are RWA's and as it's forming, but, um, and we, I deal with all of our
builds, that's how we keep consistent at 30% APY within our ecosystem and
bringing money back is, um, and I, I preach it all the time in a lot of
spaces saying that the markets are going to stabilize in the next year, year
or two, you know, how everything's, how everything's going in the vaults and
everything like this whole putting in a dollar creating a million dollars
generational wealth, like it's not going to go away, but it's not going to be as potent as it
is now. And we're here for long-term building. And as those builders on base, um, that I really see,
I really see, uh, uh, them being more receptive to the longterm games, just like I am.
Right. Like anybody can lend their more phone,
pull your money out at any time and all the extra money you earn with no
penalties, no lockups, no nothing. Right.
So why let your money sit in a bank account is what I kind of like tell them. Um,
we develop like contracts that mix them into their mints or whatever the project
is that we're building for that company to come on chain.
And then we integrate the Morpho Volts, right?
And it's like a certain percentage goes to their Morpho Volts.
These Morpho Volts are just climbing and stacking over time.
I think one company over the past year has already reached half a million dollars or more
and growing their net worth on Web3 just they didn't have before a part of their Web2 business.
Now they just basically doubled their, um, their net worth.
Right.
And so I think a lot of these, a lot of these factors and way that people are
building today can, can be building.
Yes.
Like you said, just, you know, a lot better, more, more strategically
thinking about those aspects.
And it's the same thing with the driven Labo.
Um, when I convinced Rex, it was like, Hey, we should do something with these
keys, um, have it go over to, uh, you know, if we're going to raise x amount of z on this money for these rwas and these cars that a piece goes over
into this morfo vault people that get the rs1 rwa tokens can stake them they'll get uh percentages
paid out every week by their dividends and so forth um and that just keeps growing right so
Right. So then now, now they'll have, let's say a couple hundred thousand dollars and they're making 8.8% APY. And a few months later, it grows a little bit more. They, even when they pay out the dividends, now they have enough money to buy another car, put another car on chain, fractionalize off the ownership, keep stacking, keep going, keep growing.
then now now they'll have let's say a couple hundred thousand dollars and they're making
stuff today you know just understanding what's out there and building in that direction that
derivative and understanding that and conforming the the project or your own project or whoever
you're building for to that and that long-term sustainability and growth is definitely key on base
so to answer the question for me about like i don't have an issue locking up tokens because i'm
a long-term guy in general um i don't have time to trade every day. If I do trade, I'll let bots do it that I code and program, right?
But I don't have time to look at charts,
and we don't need to look at charts anymore.
It's not like it's back in L1 days of ETH where I'm like,
oh, the Chinese are going to sleep.
We got to deploy this minting contract, watch cheap.
No, no, no, no.
We don't have that anymore.
There's no reason to look at the charts anymore.
It's just build, build, build, build,
and understand where it's going in that direction
and ultimately just applying applying the the best method you
think you can right um you're never going to cover 100 of everything out there but um i'm a long-term
guy too man so i have no problem locking up my tokens anything in those aspects um to me i don't
really look at the percentage of the apy i mean i guess that's a lie i kind of do but i I don't really look at the percentage of the APY. I mean, I guess that's a lie.
I kind of do, but I really don't focus too hard on it.
I know that if I keep adding to it and my percentage goes up,
I'm cool with that in a sense like lending.
I don't know.
I think I have five or $10,000 being lent out.
I don't even keep in a bank account and stuff and stuff comes in.
I just put it right to lending because I just keep going up on APY.
I have a very prosperous long term growth
and I know I can pull it out on APY. I have a very prosperous long-term growth
and I know I can pull it out at any time, right?
Yeah, I think that's like,
what's your last sentence of like,
I can pull it out at any time,
is what I've noticed with like,
people are fine with locking.
So I hope this sentence is making sense,
it's not the most articulate.
People are fine with locking,
but also the people that are not fine with locking
are actually still long-term minded.
So it's like, there's a very sort of like,
there's a vocal minority of people that like,
so let me even just take this a step backwards.
What I've noticed and what also shows in the data as well
is like people will be against locking or et cetera.
And those cohort of people still end up just having very long-term positions and like actually
missing out on the extra APYs that they would have gotten because like they were actually,
so they have the same, they have the same behavior as like long-term, long-term people
that are fine with locking, except for it's a mentality thing where they just want the safety of like,
okay, I can actually leave at any time,
but they don't actually end up leaving.
They actually stayed for a very long period of time
and they would have been better off
just like locking the tokens
on the alternative APY sort of mechanism, right?
So like, I hope that sort of made sense,
but like, yeah, no, 100%.
That's awesome. I think that sort of made sense, but like, yeah, 100%. That's awesome.
I think that it's definitely key to think about the, you know, the holders that can't lock, you know, long-term or can't even commit to a short-term lock and creating an option for them to have that, the ability to be able to do a stake that will pay them something, that will earn something
small. Teaching these kind of degen early in adopters about the value of passive income is
so critical. And I think that's something that's missed. We have a huge educational side of crypto,
but it is so easy to kind of get into your degenerate gambling side and just want to
ape into something and hoping you're going to get generational wealth from it. But
as soon as that kind of starts, that sentiment starts to settle down and there's not as much
of it on base as there is on other blockchain, especially Solana. You know, we all know how,
you know, yeah, they have crazy volume, but they have a massive problem with degeneracy gambling,
you know. So it's kind of a, you know,
something I like to talk to the younger guys about or new to the space about is
understanding how many opportunities there are for passive income and in some
of these plays. But yeah, I I'd love to get, um,
I've kind of started conversations with Rex, um, about, you know, uh,
driven labo and setting up something. I feel like there's an opportunity.
This is something all projects really need to start thinking of
is exploring these outside of our echo chamber of Twitter
and Telegram and Discord and looking into real world projects.
There's a door that is opened with this administration in the U.S.,
whether you like Trump or not.
Excuse me, I still have this dang cough. But whether you like Trump or not, excuse me, I still have this dang cough,
but whether you like him or not, doors have been opened. I used to knock on doors about setting up
digital asset reserves with companies and have it slammed on my face faster than, you know,
and these are friends. These are people I've known for years as I worked in that industry.
They're just like, nah, we're not touching crypto. That's a scam. Those doors are opening now. People
are like, yeah, let's talk. I'm interested. And it's opening up opportunities. I think of Driven and the opportunity there to do
like a ChemBlock signature DC shoe that has the Driven logo on it and tie into one of his rally
cars that people can get an NFT and own and really have it go to the foundation, you know,
parts of the revenue go to the foundation. There's so many opportunities that projects got in Rex and I've kind of been kicking that around and toying with it. But,
you know, there's opportunities in real world that every project needs to be thinking about.
I know Midas has talked about energy drinks. I think that's a brilliant idea.
Panda, we're talking about making an NFC, Panda plushie, you know, things like that. These are all opportunities that you
can do in real life. And I'm not just talking about the merch side of it, but actual opportunities
to go and build these things and, you know, and have it translate into your project. It's one of
the reasons why I fell in love with BaseGuard was they weren't even taking the approach from day one
as being, you know, kind of this project that was out there. They just said, we're not even building
it as a dApp.
We're building it as a website.
And yet, how often do we see that anymore?
You're like, this is just a free tool that traders can actually get in and use and utilize
it to generate income.
I thought that was huge.
I was just going to chime in quick, the culture around locking tokens.
I was just going to chime in quick.
The culture around locking tokens.
Last time I did that, Arthur Hayes, the owner of Mexi, was shilling a base project.
I think maybe it's called Invictus or something.
It was a trading platform in which you could use your memes for on-chain liquidity.
So you could trade perps without having to sell your memes
like it was pretty good Arthur Hayes is showing it and of course he's kind of a sketchy individual
but he's like almost the level of you know uh Sam uh Sam Bankman uh CZ Brian but it's Arthur Hayes
owner of Maxi and uh so uh you know they were transitioning to a
new contract you you lock your tokens uh you know it's like 800 bucks and uh you say you know
we're they're doing this transition you could get a very high yield if you locked your your tokens
before the transition so you know of course I you know I whatever I said well let me lock my so I
locked my 800 dollars in tokens uh never to be seen again
so like i don't know i'm over it i'm not like i know that there's better ways to do it like i'm
sure there's some good yield opportunities over there i've been crypto a pretty long time now i
think something like seven years uh it's never gone never never once have I actually made money from, from staking tokens at best.
The yield reduced the amount that I lost from the token going down from once like they had
this staking mechanism. So I, you know, it's just, it's, it's not for me. I know that we have
Gindor up here. It sounds super professional and you know something
like that has some attractiveness otherwise like locking uh staking well and i don't even think
you're locked into it but uh staking usdc on base chain like in the coinbase wallet like now this
is starting to sound attractive but outside of like anything that like coinbase isn't actually
doing i'm just not I'm not I've never
gonna lock to stake tokens again for yield uh it's just not you know the contracts get hacked
you name it right like not your keys not your coins not my personal experience so if you guys
can change the culture around locking and staking tokens or at least the culture as far as i perceive it or that like the
consequences then like i would i i will be uh cautiously optimistic to maybe do it again in
the future but for now like i'm good on that they they sit just fine on my my ledger uh maybe ledger
could provide some sort of stake you get what i'm i saying. There's just a contrary opinion on this topic, if I may add.
It's a good point. There is definitely a lot to be said about who you're staking with.
Because I've got dead lion NFTs that were staked.
And, you know, I can't even... Islands.
I've got volcanoes that were staked at one point, you know, that we're going
to yield lava tokens. So yeah, there's a lot to be said about, you know, the cautious optimism
there and have a reluctancy to it. But I do feel like there are enough of them out there now that
are legitimate through a Coinbase or a really stable coin that's associated with real decks
that's got some level of, you know, to it but you're right i mean we've
all seen sam bankman freed rug arguably the biggest exchange central exchange there was
you know uh with ftx and a stadium in my end you know anyway yeah i get what you're saying
yeah i'm just to add on to that as well i was just i was just gonna drop in there i know that
ape you could stake your ape tokens mostly like your uh your your board or whatever you could
stake it for a tokens and that's over now too yeah i i don't know if you guys were around for
that whole the other side launch and what a cluster that was but yeah that's a huge project
that that ended up being rather disappointing in a lot of
regards i mean the nfts are down quite a bit i know justin beaver's down nine hundred and nine
nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars on his million dollar eight that he bought um that sucks
you know but yeah no i i this is again where i'm you know not to shill base guard again but this
is why i use it because it just gives you one level, one more layer of security and what you're looking into.
Because this space is still, as much as we all want it to be safe, there's still so many rugs out there.
There's so many people who, you know, the ability to go in and look at a wallet or look at a contract and identify that, oh, this project was funded by a Bitcoin ATM.
That's a total anonymous source of funding.
That's something that ruggers use all the time. You just go put 500 bucks into a Bitcoin ATM. That's a total anonymous source of funding. That's something
that ruggers use all the time. You just go put 500 bucks into a Bitcoin ATM. It spits you out
an anonymous, you know, token that goes to an anonymous wallet you just created and then you
start a project. That's scary as shit to me. I'm not touching that token. Even if it's $20,000
they started with, I'm not going there. There's no level of trust for me when I see that. And now
there's a tool that allows me to kind of sift that crap out of the way.
Sorry for cussing on the space, but to sift through that junk, it makes it so much easier.
Yeah, just in regards to just the locked token or unlocked tokens,
I think it just depends on a couple of factors.
I mean, it's all implementation,
it's all one of the underlying mechanisms. If the yield source is something that is sustainable,
and that is verifiable, that you can actually understand within a sentence or two, that's a plus,
that's how it should go. Also, if the rewards that you're getting aren't just more of the token
itself, right, so there's just not this sort of cycle of inflation.
That's another thing as well.
If you're being paid by a stable coin, USDC,
or whatever it is, that's a plus as well.
And secondly as well, I think there definitely is,
I look at mechanisms such as Aerodrome,
and I definitely understand the caution.
There's been just, I mean, this space in general, there's been just a lot of attempts to just sort of mechanisms
and just, you know, things fall through.
But I think Aerodrome is probably the golden,
North Star or Golden Star, or just,
it's a good example of basically how to, you know,
perform a locked mechanism with the right incentives.
I'm pretty, I'm certain, looking at the charts,
I have to reevaluate.
But anyone that's locked error for a long period of time
has generally done very well.
And obviously, there's an unlock period and et cetera.
Things could change.
But so far, so good.
Just to put it out there.
But I think it all definitely depends
on just how it's implemented.
And it's definitely, as you guys are saying, it's good to just be weary and just like look into the um the underlying
details uh with that being said as well that is a very very clear sign that we are still early
like if you have to go through all of this like you know it is kind of um it is a sign and with
earliness you know comes um opportunity so uh yeah yeah i just want to chime in on
the fact that
we were just speaking about
anonymous $500
Bitcoin
ATM deposits.
Just yesterday,
all of Zcash's
developer team just quit
and Zcash was just running into all time highs.
Like, like, what are you supposed to do with that? Like, you just never know what to expect
in this space, even with established teams and established products. Like, I mean, you,
you really don't know. I mean, one day you could or or on a pedestal and thinking that you're the
smartest thing on the earth and then the next day you're gutted uh i think i think you'd also
like i think if if you buy a token and the value appreciation and accruement of that token
relies on on-chain
mechanisms, that's the gold star.
That's the North star, right?
As in like, hey, if these, if, as long as the chain itself doesn't go down, these smart
contracts that are facilitating these swaps or whatever mechanism it is, you know, whether
it's an L, um, whether it's a, um, it's a money market, like it's an Aave or it's like,
uh, a, a, a, a, right.
Like it's like a unique swap etc
like and it's in built into the smart contracts that like you know as this thing runs there's
value being accrued to the token right that's the gold star that's the north star but I've noticed
and I think you pointed it out as well it's like there is this um there's this like extra layer of
like added value that we assign to these tokens of just like,
hey, this is a reputable team.
They've also been quite established, et cetera.
So, you know, as well as the ROI of like, you know,
whatever the token is making,
whatever the protocol is making
and sending to the token per year,
I'm going to include like an extra 20 points,
20, you know, 20 points to that
because of just, you know, those factors, right?
It's an established team, blah, blah, blah. I'm just just gonna bump that up by 20 percent um so yeah it's interesting but I think it you know
um I think you should have I think your tokens should you should still you should still have a
strong argument for the value of your tokens because of just the underlying business slash
protocol behind it even if the team quote unquote steps away uh And I think with the whole Zcash drama as well,
I think it's still there.
I think they've just set up a different legal structure.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong,
but I think the team is still primarily there.
I mean, they have to be because like, you know,
otherwise I think, I don't know what Mertz will do
because he's been a very huge, let's say,
proponent of Zcash lately.
He just tweeted saying calling everybody basically.
Well, he didn't say anything.
He wasn't being mean, whatever.
But yeah, he said they just restructured.
I saw a tweet from him saying like, you guys are all ridiculous.
Like, come on now.
Like, that's not what happened.
The structure was just changed so
yeah he stepped in and said like that's kind of all uh craziness uh you know online craziness
right that so he he did say something trying to reassure people that like everything's okay
uh who knows so you know then that that's my bet i don't mean to spread misinformation i mean i'm
just seeing little tidbits that i saw happening going on this morning and then i saw the results
of the chart so i if if everything's all good there then my bad don't mean to be saying i i
really don't i'm not a z cash holder I mean, I just particularly like was watching that story.
I know they've been doing a decent run lately.
And just to see something like that come out, just to, you know, catch totally, I mean,
catches a community totally off guard.
Yeah, and there's a lot of reputation building as a whole crypto community that has to come back.
You know, whatever happened back in October was ugly.
And so when we see stuff like that, we're not even we don't even say no, that can't be true.
We just assume it's like another dose, another batch of crypto craziness.
And so, like, I get it.
I see that stuff. I oh well maybe uh so I'm
looking forward to like two years from now and uh we have some respect back again
right guys I need to jump in uh we are over three hour mark and now what I will ask for
is the final statement of each of you.
And it will be very simple.
Try to be very brief and say,
if you are bullish on 2026 and why,
but very, very briefly, simple, right?
And let's have this vibe to finish up the spaces.
As I believe 2026 will bring a lot of the opportunities
and we are
just getting started so uh let me start with the today uh guys let's jump on stage and i
will bullish on 2026 and why very briefly um bullish on 2026 because uh it's a brand new year for one.
I know that we've been saying that for quite a while now.
But we're going to
rehash that. We're going to say, okay, yeah, it's a brand new year.
And you know what? Let's try to go into this with
the 2021 or 2000 or even better yet, 2017 mind.
Like that's the type of year that I would like to see for this whole industry.
Just to get back in the forefront, you know, not only bringing innovation but like
welcoming more people in
more volume
More wins for everybody like I mean it's been a rough
So half of the decade so far so, you know, hopefully these next
Towards the end of it things pick up up. And, you know, I mean, if you look at the situation before, I mean, we haven't had such a strong infrastructure built in Evers.
Like, I mean, the laws are pointing our way.
our way the infrastructure is there uh we just need to onboard the users and and you know and
The infrastructure is there.
it give people's uh products that they're actually going to be able to help benefit their lives so
um that's what we're bullish for sounds good sounds good thank you let me continue now with
the crinkles and the kibble thumbs so are you bullish on 2026 and very briefly why
yeah um i think 2026 is uh primed to be a great year for base um i think from the last two years
especially um we uh i mean base is a very very different place than it was two years ago we have
so many different things we've got the base app now as well. This is the first year that we really have proper distribution,
especially whenever it comes to mini apps and stuff.
It feels like all of the pieces are falling into place.
I'm really, really glad to see that there are so many builders
that I still recognize from two years ago, still grinding away.
We've all learned a lot, uh we've been shipping non-stop
and yeah i mean it's it's hard not to be bullish apart from prices and stuff and i mean we know
you know all the price action you know always gets us down um apart from the people who like
to short the market uh you know we won't talk about those people um but uh um yeah i it's it's honestly it's really really hard not to be bullish um
and uh yeah i'm excited i'm really excited and uh yeah glad to be doing it with every one of you
yeah i mean imagine being a person just waiting for that big short you know it like just short enough everything sell everything it's a scam
guys I mean
what the hell but there are some
people like that
don't worry
there are some people like that
good
back to the big Sochi
yeah I mean
2026 feels bullish and is
going to be bullish because base is maturing so
fast and real products, mini apps, games are sticking and spaces like this are consistently
happening where builders and users actually meet.
So I appreciate that Elnan, I appreciate inviting us, amazing space again.
To everyone listening, show up, up support each other support who supports you
and whenever you're stressed zoom out that's all keep building keep playing and have fun
great year in the way sounds great back to my das
hello everyone uh luca went through a little bit of a change this is dr nicole um full transition oh my
god yeah it's the many personalities of midas that you will always you will always never know
who's on the mic so um but yes i am absolutely bullish midas is always bullish, right? For 2026, for sure. There's lots of catalysts going into the macro
economy that I think that people are going to for sure churn risk on, and they're going to be
coming to the space. Midas will continue to build in the Web 3 and then the Web 2,
where we will gently nudge people to our Web 3 space
and then getting some more newbies into the space.
So Midas is always bullish, and we're really excited for this year.
And thank you for the time.
Let's go. Thank you for that contribution.
Now, back to the William.
Yo, shout out to Dr. Nicole.
Absolutely love it when she's on.
Yeah, no, I'm bullish for a couple reasons.
I mean, I don't know what market overall sentiment is going to be for the year.
I think these cycles have changed dramatically.
The landscape is very different than it was in the past when it came to looking at years, bullish or bearish.
But I'm bullish on the tools.
I'm very bullish for BaseGuard,
something that the developer has shared with me and shown me personally on the back end just to
have different eyes on. I was blown away. It's a tool that every project is going to want to have
displayed and every community member is going to demand projects to have. So that alone was one of
the catalysts that I saw around the middle of last month.
He showed me on the site development and I just my jaw dropped.
I'm like, why is this not working on every chain? And it is already set up to work on every blockchain, at least on the ERC side.
But he's not going to go multi-chain until later in the year.
So for now, it stays on base, which I think is bullish for me because this is a space for real buyers and real builders. It's just such a different environment
than other chains. So I'm bullish on being on base and bullish on the projects I'm a part of.
So that's my opinion on 2026. Let's go, let's go. Now, i want to also give the chance for forza to speak on behalf of the
panda pump so let's jump on stage brother and uh you know it i asked are you bullish on 2026 and why
yeah i mean uh there's a lot of factors i I think, like Dr. Nicole was saying that we
have to consider on both sides of the equation.
But you see like this, this geopolitical situation with Venezuela, what does that mean for oil
prices?
I know it's going to take a few years to like set up that infrastructure, but markets are
always forward looking in terms of pricing. So if that means that gas prices come down
and the administration's been talking about
they want to bring in a new Fed chair governor,
Chairman Powell's out in May,
that's going to mean Trump said he wants rates at 1%.
Now, really, the Fed's supposed to be independent,
but they're going to nominate someone who is kind of friendly and open to that idea. So I think that that's going to work in our
favor. I think you're going to see these $2,000 stimulus checks closer to the midterms. You have
to keep in mind as well, this is very strategic from a midterm election perspective. I don't want
to make it about politics, but you just can't bury your head in the sand. It is very much so.
If Trump loses, he's toast.
They're going to try to impeach him again.
So this is it.
Like, you go all in at this point.
That's what I think happens.
I think the rates come down, 250th anniversary of America.
You also have the World Cup in North America.
You're not going to have, like, you know, a confluence of all these factors and make,
you know, America, you know, look like in horrible condition in front of the
world. There was one other factor that I think is pretty big. Yeah, like the rates coming down is
going to be a significant catalyst and just continued bullishness on AI. I think this AI
mania is going to continue. And you're going to see if you ignored AI in the past, you're not
going to be able to ignore it this year, whether it's from jobs or just the tech, like right in your face, there's a tremendous amount of innovation taking place.
Like every day there's a new robot.
NVIDIA is now getting into self-driving cars.
With Hyundai, there's a tremendous amount of technology efficiency happening.
And I think it, you know, at least for 26, it bodes well.
On the headwind side of things is potentially the geopolitical side is a bit scary.
Like when you look at it there, you have to be rational and reasonable on these things.
But I think if I had to net it all out, I'm going to bet on a more bullish 26.
And I mean, look, look at those pandas in the nest.
How could you not be bullish on those pandas?
Number one. And then final point
is, Debro, check your DM.
Love you, bro.
I've been trying to get this guy forever.
I'm getting targeted.
Check your DM, bro.
That's the only reason why he wanted to come up and speak.
He wanted to say thanks.
Honestly, no.
Credit to Debro.
Like, when he was speaking earlier, I've worked with developers, not only in Web3, but out of Web3 and Web2 for corporations. I've worked with many different developers on many different teams as a business user.
And I have to say that you can hear a developer is quality.
Number one, when they're giving a lot of details,
Debro, which you were just now.
But two, when you're providing suggestion,
it's not like some developers will just say to the business,
what do you want?
Just tell us what you want.
Give us the script and that's it.
Like their job is just to, you know, tick through.
But when a dev is actually giving suggestions,
it helps bridge the gap that much better
and helps add value to the project
because you're giving the feedback
in terms of what you're seeing in the industry,
your experience, what's worked in the past,
what's not worked,
instead of just saying,
what do you need?
You know, kind of running people through a mill,
so to speak.
So I think it's just a good indicator
of a developer's quality.
Just something just pinpointed in my,
it just highlighted in my brain
and I wanted to call out.
So something I definitely recognize, but yeah,
I appreciate you guys hosting the space today.
Hopefully we can get some more time next week to link up.
Look at my DMs. I promise.
Let's go.
I finally got to calm down on a few things.
Had a few releases, you know, the holidays, no excuse,
but I'm back to a normal schedule.
So I'll definitely check the DMs there.
And thank you for the praise there, man.
I love building in this space and do it every day.
So, you know, that's what it's all about on base too,
is helping each other out, right?
We're the base fam.
We always got to lift each other up, help each other out.
Yeah, I mean, look, tremendous turnout today.
Elton, you always run a great show.
But even yesterday, we had a space with Quigley and Rachel just aggregating feedback on how
the base experience and base app could be improved.
And I thought that was absolutely fantastic.
The energy was great.
It was a good meeting of the minds.
We were able to provide a lot of feedback and thoughts in a non-emotional manner, just
like objectively, what could be good for creators and developers alike to improve the base experience. And I have to say, you go from
space to space to space on base and like it's productive and it's relational as well in a
positive sense. Like you're building bridges. People that, you know, doesn't feel like a
competition, like dog eat dog. We're all just having fun while we're doing this as well.
I think that's the way to build community.
That's a way to build collectives.
And it's a way to build relationships and just build in general.
So what better way to do it?
I think I found a really wonderful chain and community and super happy to be here.
So yeah, thank you guys for having me.
Thank you as well.
Now, let me check.
Well, Arlo, let's jump in and the same question.
Are you bullish on 2026?
And if yes, like why briefly?
Yes, I'm bullish on 2026.
I have had a reasonable amount of success in the last eight years of my life based on a simple strategy of doing the right thing.
Doing the best I can at what's in front of me and to do the right thing.
thing and 2025 was a year of so many of us on basic especially if you're someone who joins these
spaces of doing the right thing and working working hard to write working hard so we all spent 2025
working hard being honest doing the right thing here on beige chain we know Jesse is of that same
pedigree of being honest and working hard and doing the right thing.
And I am not folding on that belief system anytime soon.
It's been like the core of who I am almost this last 10 years.
So I think it's just this was just like a test, a test of like, hey, who's going to actually believe?
And so here we are we're still here and as far as anything that i know about how the
universe works if you work hard and you do the right thing uh the good things will come and from
every everything i know about everybody in this space right now that's what we're doing
so it's time to finally get rewarded for all this hard work and honesty that we put into base jane
thanks real that was real.
Can I add one more point?
I apologize.
This article just came through.
Why else I'm bullish for 26?
And this is coming out of Barron's.
I think it's really important.
Morgan Stanley is betting big on digital assets,
workplace services, and private markets
and how they're tying all together.
And more or less, the keynote of the article
is they're going to together. And more or less, like the basis, the keynote of the article is like,
they're going to be building a digital wallet
into more or less their product suite.
So when you kind of zoom out, like, am I bullish on 26?
Like, well, we're doing, we started,
we have our Panda Pals round table Monday.
Sorry to shill, but let me just add this.
We talk about, it's not even about our project.
It's the way we want to give back.
We have a round table about, you know, whether it's the economy, the markets, AI is like
a focal point, given how much it's changing our society, like more and more rapidly every
day that passes, it seems.
So this is another reason that I feel bullish.
The token, last, this past Monday, we talked about predictions for 26.
We only got through half of them.
The next half, we'll try to do Monday,
but one of them is going to be more emphasis on the tokenization of everything.
Tokenizing real world assets, tokenizing stock.
NASDAQ's saying they want to trade 24 by 5.
I think there's a competing Texas stock exchange that wants to launch 24 by 7.
So when you look at everything, right?
Look at what Coinbase has done.
When you look at Brian Armstrong's, look at what Coinbase has done. When you
look at Brian Armstrong's trifecta goals of the year, one, make Coinbase a financial hub for
everything. They just got into stock trading, right? And they're getting into prediction
markets, which is rapidly growing. And it's all under one roof now. Like Fidelity, Vanguard,
they don't have like native crypto trading. So then when I look at this article here that says Morgan Stanley is going to be adding
that capability to trade crypto, it's like they're behind, right?
So Coinbase is doing V1 stock trading now.
The next logical step to me is tokenized stock.
So they're getting way in front of all this.
If you just look at the breadcrumbs.
The second goal of Brian Armstrong is stablecoin as part of like the infrastructure, infusing that.
And the third part is the integration of BaseApp into all of this, just getting more people on chain.
So when you connect all of that, and if Coinbase does get that market share and attention, we're all on base, right?
And that third goal is part of the E2026 goal.
goal as part of the key 2026 goal.
I mean, you can check, he posted a couple of days back.
So given all that, not only do I feel macro 26 is going to be bullish, I think Coinbase
is really going to be a highlight organization in 26 and by extension projects on base are
going to do very well.
are going to do very well.
Sounds great.
Sounds great.
Thank you, Forza.
Justin, now it is your turn
and just drop us
why bullish on 2026 briefly
and that will be a cap.
Shit.
All right, let me keep it short.
Simple.
Sweet.
We can go off for like
the rest of the day
when we say why bullish on base.
But well, for starters,
I think it's been a a i feel like the first quarter
of every year kind of like starts like a monday or feels like a monday and i feel like this 2026
this first quarter just feels great it doesn't feel like a monday it feels very uplifting um
very quick and snap a turnaround into 2026 i mean mean, it's kind of crazy. I'm always watching
notice and alerts for any of the posts and stuff that come out from base or Coinbase or any new
features. So look how much we got blasted with just coming out from like 2025, pretty strong.
So I think 2026 is going to be really great. I think we're going to see a lot of
new uprising of builders, protocols, some awesome new tech.
I mean, we just heard Panda say something about that company and integrating with their digital wallets.
We're seeing way more adoption, right?
Like this is our time.
This is our time to shine and not getting political either or anything, but we do have more opportunities under Trump right now and everything. So in this
aspect, and I've said it right before we took a swing, hoping that Trump, when we went public,
hoping Trump will win, I said, I was like, well, take a swing and if he wins, then great. We have
four years to make a difference because we could see how somebody can come in and just sign a piece
of paper and just wipe away stuff, right? It's kind of a little crazy it just it makes no progress but it could happen right we could come into it but
if we start establishing ourselves here uh and everything we're doing with these protocols these
banks um these adoptions these other companies doing this then you know you're we're forced to
reckon with and they can't just wipe us away with some signature or some uh you know
piece of paper so i'm super bullish on 2026 i would say just keep building keep your heads keep
your heads low you know um going spaces uh support other communities to throw you know make sure
you're following all the amazing uh you know um element here that's the host of these awesome
spaces all the amazing speakers and projects that came up today um and everybody just stay in touch and keep building with each other because you know we can hear about this all the
time and talk to each other in these upcoming spaces we're starting to get familiar with
pfps and names and say hey i see some familiar faces in here but um you know stay in touch and
i'm sitting there preaching that but uh now that i'm back and i'm more situated and i've caught up
on some deadlines after the holidays i will be catching up my dms so i know i'm sitting there preaching it and i'm
behind my dms and so i feel a panda i know i know i'm already getting ready to burn myself on that
one but no bullet bullish bullish year and i'm sorry i was late today ellen there's no excuse
i was up till 3 a.m coding um but thank you for having me here with you today again.
Thank you. Thank you, everyone, as well, for joining, for speaking.
You know, the Happy New Year 2026.
This was the first spaces.
The next year, the next week, we will have another spaces on Thursday as regular, right?
So looking forward to that.
Already planning some bangers again and uh yeah thank
you everyone for joining you know it uh just keep showing up uh keep keep replying keep smashing
everything just be active and you know you will you will eventually win and we will eventually
win i'm very very sure about that and 2026 looks like a good year to win on base so let's stay
bullish on base guys this was me
alan behind the mic with the co-host justin we had some of the great great ogs and guests
in the spaces today it was episode 44 and the following week we will smash the episode 45
regarding the rewards um as always i will be dropping the winners in my following um in my
following post um usually the first or the second, so
that will be done as regular, right?
Guys, you were amazing, thank you for all the support and have a great rest of the first
day.
It was great.
Goodbye.
Let's go. Thank you.
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