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Homebase Workshops: Session 1
Recorded: April 7, 2025 Duration: 2:05:59Space Recording
Short Summary
The recent discussions around BASE and Farcaster highlight significant project launches, partnerships, and growth trends within the crypto ecosystem. With a focus on community engagement, innovative funding models, and the integration of culture into crypto, these developments signal a promising future for builders and creators in the space.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Nice.
It worked.
Amazing.
We are now live on Twitter.
Let's go.
I wish the Twitter comments would
automatically propagate to here. That would be really
cool. I know.
Oh yes, I can see it
now. I can see it on
Twitter. That's cool.
Now we have something to shill. Let's go.
I'm actually going to post that right now.
That's so great.
The coolest part is if Tom doesn't show up, I get to pretend I'm Tom.
Oh, well, your name on the screen is a bit of a giveaway.
Real quick.
Filling in, I'll just, I'll put in parentheses, filling in for Tom.
Yeah. I'm so glad that worked.
I was nervous about the Twitter space broadcast.
Yeah, it seems to be working well.
Yeah, I think it's a fairly easy way for people to jump into,
just straight from Twitter.
As much as I can't do it.
Yeah.
I think there's 36 views at the moment, 36 viewers, so hi.
Oh, nice.
We're already at 36 viewers.
Nice.
That's just as as many followers
our account has i'm the same almost the same amount of users of farcaster as well
yeah one off yo we need one more person yeah oh we're at 47 now we just jumped oh amazing um okay
so if we want to get more than 37 Farcaster users, how do we do it?
Well, I think the fact that Waka Flaka Flames just joined is like a pretty good way to get people to join.
That's pretty cool.
I think that's true.
I think if we can get, you know, a nice Waka Flaka collab, we'll be bringing every creator to base and every creator to Farcaster.
We will soar from 37 Farcaster users to 3,700.
Yes.
Maybe you should make a rap about base and Farcaster.
Yo, base Flocka.
I'm like, I'm like trying to like,
I'm trying to put the lyrics together in my head right now.
Yeah.
That, that would be good.
That would be a good show.
It would.
I could have a live show to be honest.
Yeah.
I could, you know,
I could try and convince him to do a show at Farcon.
Oh, that would be so cool.
Yeah.
Let me, I mean,
they said that they have a lot of shows this year.
So maybe I could be like, yo, we add one more in New York.
But yeah, let me just hit a Barclays real quick.
Like they said that they can do it.
Yeah, I love it.
All right, great, great. Looks to be going well uh i'm gonna do one little tweet cool
the thing is like i want to cast but i just feel like such an idiot casting twitter links but like
you have to sometimes and it actually works really well sometimes.
It's actually
meant to be.
Bringing Twitter to Farcaster
actually does work.
And not only Farcaster
on Twitter works, too.
It's true. That's one
thing I like, that with Farcaster, you can share
links, and it doesn't affect
the engagement very much. At all, actually. It just doesn't affect it so so nice nice to have like a real platform you know
yeah that's usable
all right just repost. 73 views, nice.
Wait, are they commenting here in the Twitter?
If that's propagating straight from Twitter, that will be incredible.
Wait, I missed that. Oh, yeah, it says, I see some comments.
Yeah, yeah.
GM statuette. Okay, okay that's cool that's really cool
yeah bm BM I feel like BM is so hard
Because it's like
BM is a tough one
It's a good double entendre
I'll say that
Yeah
GM Hikari that. Yeah.
GM Hikari. i think those are straight from the twitter. That is really cool.
Yep.
Hey,
look at that. Perfect timing.
Hey.
On time, Tom. How are we?
I'm doing well. I see you, Luciano.
Hey, Naomi. I don't know if we met in person. We may have met at Denver.
I think so, yes. Hi, Tom. Nice to meet you.
Incredible. Thank you guys for joining us. Thank you guys for being here.
Really appreciate both of you.
So just to give it a quick intro, these are the home-based workshops leading up
to the Bass Batches Build-A-Thon. Tom is going to give us a little intro to Bass here, and then
we're going to go into a little bit of a longer introductory session by Naomi. So Tom, if you'd
like to take it away, feel free to get started. Yeah, totally. I'd love to. I'm really excited
about everybody building on base and
by the way where is this being streamed so i can follow along being streamed on uh twitter
okay very cool yeah yeah i like to have it open so i can see uh nice feedback and other things
from folks it looks like the twitter comments are propagating directly to the stream yard as well
oh very cool yeah hey wow wow. Midnight. Cool.
Yeah. That's the best time for building.
Damn right. Really excited, happy to join and just share a little bit of the things that I'm
most excited about happening on base right now and would love to hear any like questions or
stuff from the audience. So yeah, my name's Tom. I'm head of product for base on the builder side,
really excited about, you know, all the work that we're doing on the chain with the smart wallet
and with our builder toolkit. So things like on chain kit, I'm sure many of you have seen mini
kit that recently went live in terms of like mini apps being an important way that you can get
distribution. And so, you know, excited to see more of what gets built and really the
thing that you know working with zen and and everybody around what we're trying to do with
base batches here is that a lot of our build-a-thons and other you know dev rel support has been around
going from idea to app and that's a very important piece of the equation right you know when we're
seeing with um things like vibe coding and the rise of generative AI, the idea that you can really go from idea to app or prototype quickly is important.
But there's another piece of this equation, and I'd say it's probably half the equation.
It's going from app to business.
So, you know, the things around your app that actually get you to be able to live and build and grow it sustainably is a big part of the idea here.
It's kind of like what happens on
the day after the build-a-thon or, you know, once you've been successful bringing something, getting
those first users, getting that early traction, how do you create a business around that? And
that's really the part of this that I'm so excited about seeing. It's things like, you know,
certainly distribution, and that's a big part of what many apps are for, but it's, you know,
getting connected with other teammates that can help help build it getting connected with funding getting you know and investors and these types of things
and you know getting connected with all the things that you need to know maybe if you don't know yet
around how to operate a business so things like payroll and taxes and you know withholdings and
all these types of other important elements and this idea of like bringing the world on chain
it's certainly a big technical effort with software that we're writing.
But then there's also these soft skills or these, you know, they're still hard skills, but skills around going from app to business.
And that's really what I'm excited about is having everything you need all in one place and helping all the builders that are creating really do that holistically and be able to earn sustainably today and for the long term from what
they're building on this. It literally could not have been a better introduction for what we're
doing here, Tom. I love that it's become consensus for most people putting on hackathons to no longer
just say, hey, come to the hackathon, build something for a few dollars, and then never
build again. Everyone is really focused on driving these hackathon projects,
these winners, onto actually a real business eventually.
And this is how we create real products,
real services that real people actually use
and how we bring real users on chain.
So really glad to have you put it all in front of everyone
just like that.
And anyone who's interested in on-chain kit, et cetera,
about what Tom's been talking about,
stay tuned with us.
All week we'll be going over some of these tools and more infrastructure from base.
So this week, next, and then the week after,
we'll be going over plenty of tooling
and resources for developers.
So please bear with us,
and you'll get to learn all about the things that Tom had mentioned.
Heck yeah. Awesome.
Really, really good to hear and all these things fit together nicely into a one-stop shop for builders,
building on chain, building on base.
And I think these workshops are going to be really instrumental in that.
I couldn't agree more. And thank you so much for joining us.
If anyone has any questions for Tom, feel free to throw them into the chat real quick hopefully
he's got a few seconds to to answer them and and then we'll we'll move on to
Naomi session very cool nice definitely seen some base friends in the in the chat
here this is awesome lots of base friends actually a huge
shout out statuette she has been absolutely instrumental and and putting on these workshops
none of this would be possible without her so thank you statuette and she's uh the majority
of the reason that we're getting real distribution on this as well so she is the queen of queens
the queen of queens? Great. That's a good question. Nice to see you. When should a project incorporate?
I think this isn't legal advice. This isn't financial advice. And one of the things that
comes to mind with this is it kind of depends where people are located too. I can tell you
doing it at the right time in the right way. So in my past experience, I've done some things as an LLC, as a subchapter S corp, and then, you know, as a Delaware
corporation. And I think some of that probably depends on what your ultimate goals are for the
project, how far along it is and where in the world you are based or where the majority of the builder team is based.
And I think one of the things there that will be important through some of the base batches
materially and otherwise is what's the goal for this?
If you're needing a vehicle to go kind of, if your plan is to raise funds, then something
like a Delaware Corp is typically very standard, at least in the United States, as something
that can be a vehicle for taking on funds. If it's going to be something more like a, quote, lifestyle business, which I
never really got that term because a lifestyle business is great and they can be very wildly
successful and profitable, but maybe that just means that you're not intending to raise a lot
of outside capital. Maybe for that, again, this isn't legal advice, but maybe for that, something
like an LLC is more apropos. And that's really, you know, something that is being innovated on when you look at like what's happening in Wyoming. Like they have a very interesting LLC setup and then they even have the Dow LLC structure. There's Dowda. There's some different things out there. So I don't want to speak too much out of turn because I'm not up on the latest on-chain legal structures. But I think really around your goals goals where you're located um i think those would be important considerations to to think about yeah and then
there's all kinds of countries other also that of course you know different companies use for
different purposes so follow-up question tom if you were to uh incorporate and let's say this
business doesn't do anything physical in the u.S., would you incorporate in the U.S.? I really think that's a question that everybody is going to have to
answer for themselves. And hopefully through some of the programming that we're putting together
and bringing in the right experts that are up to date on the latest things, I think will be
important to help guide that thought but here's one
thing i can say maybe not definitively but i can say this let me not say definitively but if you
are going to launch a mini app i don't think you need to be thinking about how to incorporate
before you launch a mini app depending on what you're doing of course your situation might change
but you know i like this about going from idea to app and then from app to business and the incorporation piece is very very important so you don't want to do it too late
but you also don't want to not ship because you're kind of held back by some of these constraints so
use your best judgment and your best taste and kind of think through that
nevada too interesting yeah i haven't followed that up uh as as as much but i'll have to follow
that it's so great to see all the different countries
that people are tuning in from. This is awesome. All different times all around the world.
It's about sunset right here pretty soon where I'm at.
In our plan is to, when we do these in the future, hopefully we can do them either six
hours ahead or six hours behind. So as we do them, we'll choose different time zones so we
can make it more accessible to people around the world so we chose this this time zone just because uh it happened to
work in the past uh for some folks so we sent it around this time and it's been working pretty well
so far but we're gonna keep changing it uh throughout the future just to make it as accessible
as possible and also if you guys missed the live stream or you have to go,
don't worry about it. Everything will be recorded and we'll make sure that everything
isn't a very easy place for you to find it. A lot of people come calling in for midnight.
Looks like a good time. Nice. Nice. Yeah. So any, there's other questions too i'm happy to answer i know
there's some really uh good programming planned here i would think about really yeah go ahead
go ahead lucero i'm just gonna say if there if there's any last questions uh feel free
uh to to give them real quick tom if there's something else you wanted to say, feel free and then let's move on.
Yeah.
We're really excited.
And I know we're going to be talking about that more
later today, but like why on-chain, why base?
When I think about stuff
that I want to see built, it's what does
on-chain do uniquely
that other platforms
don't do. And when I think about just moving money around the
world, like your money should move at the speed of the internet. I think that's an ad from last
year from Coinbase, and that's a great way to put it, right? But it's like stable coins can just go
anywhere and pretty soon, 200 milliseconds with flash blocks coming soon to base mainnet coming
very soon. And that's just moves around and you don't have to be burdened by the
legacy financial rails which really weren't designed for this globally connected internet
and so that's one of the things i get excited about and what type of apps and mini apps and
experiences can uniquely use on chain and smart contracts to power their business logic i think
the we're really really at a good time for innovation here with all the tools coming together and the support through programs like this in the community that we have.
So very excited to see. Yeah, Mike, so thoughts on layer threes. Layer three app chains are an
important part of scaling block space throughput, really. And so the way that we're thinking about
app chains is, you know, we partnered with Coinbase developer platform to create the app chains
product. And also there's some great other providers out there like Conduit, Caldera,
Alchemy, Gelato, and others that are creating these layer three launchers in order to bring that
live. And so when I think about, might you be ready for an app chain? You know, it's if you're
using a lot of block space, if you're spending a lot of money on gas credits for your end users.
And so some of the one vertical that we see a lot of this happening is with gaming, because the level of transaction volume, so much of what happens is happening on chain.
And the builders are spending a lot of money subsidizing the block space costs for their users.
They might be ready for an app chain.
And so this is to say that an app chain does have a decent amount of operational needs that come
with it. You know, you don't get it for free. You really are operating your own chain now,
which as an L3 app chain, it plugs neatly into base and like will interop well. And then there's
different types of settings and configuration like custom gas token. That's an interesting one that we've heard
from a lot of people that are interested in an app chain.
But those are some of my high level thoughts.
And I do think, you know, over the coming years,
we're gonna see more and more layer three app chains
for apps that reach that scale
or have those unique customization needs.
And really it's kind of like a on-chain connected
EC2 instance or like a compute server
that can be connected to the broader chain
ecosystem is one way to think about it
and uh just a once again a quick follow-up from that tom if i i guess that pretty much sums up
why base for you as well personally but if you'd like to go a little bit deeper into like why you
think base is the right place for these things might be a good place to
end it all. Yeah, yeah, totally, totally. And maybe I can dovetail with Toki's question also.
I think, you know, why is base the place? Well, first off, I get excited about writing
smart contracts for the EVM. And so when I survey the landscape of different ways that you can write
your business logic for your app on chain, and that you can plug into it um you know most people
use solidity of course there's viper for a more pythonic element and there really is the sky is
the limit for what you can do with it and then you know building on that base is an ethereum layer
two and you know the reasons that i think that base is the place uh of course i might be somewhat
biased but you know really trying to make base bridge, not an island that connects to all parts of the
global on-chain economy. Our close relationship with Coinbase makes sure that we're doing things
with the utmost highest level of security, privacy, these important things, and decentralizing
progressively over time. We mindfully launched fault proofs at the end of last year, and very
soon we're mindfully stepping to the Security Council and going to have that stage one decentralization milestone. But really,
our goal is to bring many, many, many more people on chain than there currently are.
I'm sure you've heard us talk about 1 billion people on chain. I think it's all about distribution
when you're building an app, like how important is it to get people in front of your app? And this is something that I think we are uniquely positioned
to do with the simplicity and the clarity,
the strength of the team and the teammates that I work with.
And then most importantly, the amazing community that has,
you know, think about how old base,
base is like not even officially two years old yet
in terms of when the mainnet launched.
And we have the most ridiculous, most global,
most based community of people
that truly love to help each other and lift each other up.
And I think these home-based workshops can help,
not even help, will be what shapes the future of BASE
because it wouldn't be possible
with just the people that are like working on the core team.
There's so, so, so much more to that.
And we can do it this way.
It really will make it stand apart, I think from how other chains approach it. And so that would be some of my things that I think about with on-chain and with BASE in particular.
that can be the case, but hopefully we're just one of many, many communities, you know, within base
that, that helped shape its future. And, and that's why, you know, base has been super supportive
around supporting these decentralized communities. And this is really what does drive real value,
especially on chain is bottom up engagement and, you know, community driven initiatives. So I'm,
I'm really glad that, you know, you understand and everyone at base understands how important it is.
And this is this is why we're aligned.
You know, it really is important to lift each other up together.
And we're all fighting the same battle.
You know, that's why why on chain is first, you know, not why base.
It's really important that we understand why we're all here first and foremost.
And and base is just one of the one of the maybe best ways to get us there.
Base is just one of the maybe best ways to get us there.
And collectively, we're all making base the place,
which I get very excited about.
Making base the place.
I got to start using that.
That's good, yeah.
Totally.
Any other good questions in there?
Any last things you want to say, Tom?
I think that covers it.
Keep building, stay based, or start building and keep being based.
We're going to get into it now.
There's some really good programming up.
I know you're going to cover some good stuff, Naomi,
and then some folks from the DevRel team will get into some more technicals
and nuts and bolts, and it's going to be a good session tonight, morning, afternoon, wherever people are.
Can't wait to see what comes out of this first batch.
And Tom, if there's any extra resources or anything you want to send me or you want to put in front of people, just let me know and we'll make it happen.
Yeah, the one thing I would say is obviously the Twitter or X account build on base is great to follow.
If you're on Farcaster clients, the base account is good to follow.
But on the BuildOnBase one on X, we're getting all the latest happenings for all things builders and the same on Farcaster too.
So excited to see all there and have a great rest of the very true manual.
That's a great way to put it.
All right.
You heard it here first.
Go follow BuildOnBase on Twitter. Go follow build on base on Twitter.
Go follow base on far caster.
And,
and put your base ENS in the comments.
I will be asking you guys to put your ENS in the comments every 20 minutes or so.
So the sooner you do it,
the better.
Yeah.
I want to see that base name.
We got to all have base names.
Everyone's getting a base name.
Come on.
It's the whole purpose of these workshops. Let's go. Tom.base.eth. And I see some good base
names in here. Awesome. Well, thank you all for having me. I'm excited to see how this
goes and I'm excited. Looking forward to joining another one too in the future soon.
Amazing. Thanks so much again, Tom. Really appreciate you.
Cheers. Bye now.
All right. And that is our introduction from Tom. Thank you all so much for joining us and listening in.
Now we're going to move on to Naomi. So first, I want to start with saying welcome home and welcome to BASE. And now it's hers.
Thank you so much.
Oh, my gosh.
I'm already so excited.
Like just hearing from Tom.
That was super cool.
I always love hearing basically the people behind BASE talk about it because, I don't
know, it's just amazing what they've been able to do in such a short amount of time.
But today, I want to talk about why on chain, why on base?
And I really want to go through a creator's perspective. I know that there's a lot of
developers who are really excited to build on base, but I just want to add a little bit of
context as to why base matters for creators and also how builders can use base to help out creators
and how creators can use all the tools which already exist on BASE.
So I'm going to do an introduction first about sort of my journey into BASE and why I got started
on Chain and in BASE. Then I'm going to talk about why creators are using BASE, how creators
are using BASE with a few case studies. I'm going to talk about Farcaster, which I'm just super
excited about. I'm currently sitting in top 10 in the Farcaster leaderboard,
so I'm very passionate about Farcaster at the moment.
And then I'll touch upon mini apps as well.
And then if you have any questions,
there'll be some time at the end
for you to ask away in the chat.
But if you have any questions as I'm talking,
please just ask away and I'll see
if I can answer it as well as we go.
So first I wanna start off with saying that the Web2 creator monetization model is broken.
Now, that's quite a bold statement to make, but that is the reason why I am building on-chain,
why I'm creating on-chain, and why I want to build and continue to create on-base.
So I'm a professional athlete. I do triple jump.
And if you don't know what that is, it's
when you hop, skip and jump into a sandpit. And I am the 11 times British triple jump champion.
So the problem with triple jump is that it's a really niche event. And there isn't much sort of
sponsorship within that event. So I often have to try and get brand deals, or I have to try and get
sponsorships, race a lot, basically reach out to companies for funding.
And it's really difficult for athletes within a niche event to get that type of funding.
But then I discovered BASE and it basically changed my life.
That sounds dramatic, but through BASE, different tools on BASE, being able to mint my training diaries, joining the Blueprint
program and also joining Farcaster, I was able to fund my whole year of athletics.
This is something that's completely unheard of.
So many athletes struggle, especially in the niche events, to be able to get funding.
But through base and all the amazing tools that developers have created, one athlete,
me, was able to
actually fund their athletics journey. And I want to keep documenting that journey as I aim for the
LA Olympics. Now, I want to share another case study. When I got an injury last year,
I wanted to make a bit of an art TikTok account. And I wanted to share some like fun little comics
because I really wanted to just cheer myself up because I was injured. So I posted these comics to TikTok and I was so excited because very quickly I gained 50,000
followers and I also was getting millions of views on each of my posts and I was like okay
this is amazing. So let me check out the creator monetization and see how much rewards I get. It was zero, literally zero dollars and zero cents. Even though my videos
had got over 10 million views, I didn't monetize that at all. So it was really frustrating as a
creator because I'm like, okay, so I'm making people stay on this app for what was that? 4,500,
wait, 4,500 hours. Yeah, I'm not being able to monetize this at all.
How is this good for creators?
You know, I'm putting a lot of time
into these little comics and my videos,
people are watching and engaging,
but TikTok are making money from this,
but I'm not making any of it.
And this is where OnChain and Base
really comes in and helps out.
So since going OnChain, I've been able to mint my NFTs, my videos, my
creativity on different platforms, which I'll get into a bit later. And just from one video, I'm
able to make see here, here, 0.1 ETH off one video, the weekly forecast reward $300. So just in like a
week of just sort of posting my life or one video that I post on chain,
I'm able to generate more than when I got a million views on TikTok.
So that's just one example of how building on base is so good for creators.
So let me get into a little bit of how creators are currently building on base.
So as I said, base solves problems for creators and here are some
ways why. So firstly, there is Zora. Now Zora is really amazing and I've seen so many incredible
builders use this tool. Basically with Zora, every post is an instantly tradable coin. So when you
make a video or post a photo, it literally becomes a coin that people can trade on Deck Screener. Not only
does the creator get a supply of that coin, they also are rewarded for every time people trade.
So this is an amazing way for creators to monetize their content. Now imagine if I posted that TikTok
thing that I made, which had a million views, imagine if that got like a million trades on Zora,
I'd be able to earn so much more than just leaving it on
TikTok where it didn't monetize at all. Also, it's really awesome how on Zora you can see the creator
earnings. And I think that's a really nice touch because it's transparent. And that's something
that I really love about building on chain. When people are on Instagram, you see influencers
posting something like, just got this deodorant, deodorant and it's like did they get paid
for that is this a paid deal is this a sponsorship there's no real way of knowing so then if this
brand approached you and was like hey can you make a post for us i wouldn't know
at all how much you know that creator had generated from from the post whereas on chain
everything is super transparent as everything is recorded on the blockchain.
And another thing that I love about Zara is being able to see all the people who collected your work and it's almost like they're following you on your journey as a creator.
Another tool which I absolutely love that's built on base is called rodeo.
Now, there's a few reasons why I love rodeo. But one of the reasons is you can collect people's artwork
content videos in one click there's no collect till you know connect your wallet and enter this
thing and so that thing is literally you log in you can log in by email so it's super easy and
then you're able to just tap to collect and that is a great way for artists the creators to get
paid for the things that they make.
Now, the reason why I'm sharing this, even if you're a developer watching this, is I want to kind of get your brain cogging with, like, ideas of ways that you can contribute to helping creators.
Because, as I said, if BASE has been able to help one athlete like me, like, imagine the amount of people you guys will be able to help with the tools,
the games, like, all the different things that you're doing to bring more people on chain.
So here I use an example of Fer, who is a really amazing photographer and artist. She has made
0.47 ETH, which at the moment is $700, just from sharing these posts. Now before, as I showed you,
I did a little screenshot of my Instagram page. I don't make anything from just sharing a post.
A like is cool. it makes me feel kind of
good, you get a nice little buzz when you get a notification, but it doesn't mean anything in
terms of, you know, nobody like owns it, nobody is getting any money for this. Whereas the amazing
thing with Rodeo is not only are people liking it, that gives the creator money, it's that they can
then sell it on to somebody else, so then they can monetize on something that they collected.
And the really awesome thing is that rodeo is only like
has a 24 hour window, so you need to be early.
So the people who are early are the people who are gonna,
A, support an artist and also be able to monetize as well.
So I think that's a really awesome way of why building
on chain and why creating on chain is just that bit more fun.
Another one is pods. Now, I absolutely love pods because I like to listen to my Spotify,
my podcast on Spotify, but it goes even further when you can directly support these podcast
creators. Now, of course, these huge podcasts can get monetized and do ads. But for smaller podcasts, it might be a bit more difficult for those creators to be able to monetize and to get people to really listen and engage with their podcasts.
However, with pods, you're able to almost promote or sponsor the podcast with a coin.
So he can say, I have here $1,500 worth of a certain coin.
And if you mint this, you're going to be rewarded for minting that.
So what a way to reward people
who are supporting you. And the awesome thing about this is that as a creator, you can actually,
you can make your own coin really simply. You can message different, there's so many amazing
builders who you can basically just get in touch with through X, through Farcaster, and you can
ask for a collaboration. And this is a really actually effective way of a being able to
get that coin in lots of wallets, and just being able to support the people who support you. So
here you can see that Todi said, I just added $1,500 worth of Clanker tokens to the Mint,
Pods Mint via Boost. So anyone who wants to collect this episode can get a nice instant
bonus. And it works within the frame or the mini app in Firecaster.
And then you can see there's a collect button and then they can earn 81% back in Clanker.
So that's just a really awesome way that podcast hosts or people who create even videos and
YouTube videos can be put on there as well. That's a really great way for them to be able
to monetize that content. Now, we obviously have to talk about musicians. I'm not sure if Waka Flocka is
in this chat, but if he is, shout out to you. Waka Flocka is an awesome rapper who's just
joined Farkaster and is a super-based musician. But Koops Records is an example of an on-chain
record label. So how that works is that you can collect music that are part of Koops Records
and you can own it and
artists will receive a real-time payment every single time that it's owned now my husband is a
music producer and even though his songs get a lot of streams on youtube the monetization isn't
really there whereas on chain like for instance i've um put her jayden who is an amazing singer songwriter she is able to monetize every single person who
collects and listens to her song and she posted her that it's a literal dream country because
she was able to fund a trip to go and go to Hawaii to have her producer and co-worker
come with her so that she can write, create music
videos, all that type of thing. And none of that would have been able to happen without bass
and the on-chain tooling that is provided. So these are just like some examples of amazing ways
that creators, whether you're a podcast, a video creator, you're an artist, are all able to use
bass and on-chain tooling. I'm just seeing a comment here from
Gray saying that using, doing music on chain is a blast. I threw up a few fun songs and made and
scored about almost 20,000 paid mints. Shout out to sound xyz. That is just incredible. 20,000
paid mints. That's probably more than if you would have got millions of streams on Spotify
because the amount that actually trickles down to the creator isn't actually that much.
Whereas, as I said, when everything's on chain,
you can see exactly how much is going to the creator,
and it's a significantly higher amount.
Also, we have HyperSub.
HyperSub is a really awesome way for creators and even builders to create recurring
revenue with NFT subscriptions. So all this can be done on chain, but also with a normal credit
card as well. You're able to subscribe monthly or quarterly to get art directly into your wallet
to support what different builders are creating. It can be used as a subscription model. And the
person who I've shown here is a actual yoga instructor called Laurie. And she actually does
streams for people who have collected her NFT. So because everything is within on chain, you can
clearly see how does this person own my nft if so they have access to
come into my yoga stream on saturday and i think it's a really cool way to token gate and also just
to create an even more embedded community so i just had to shout out um hypersub and i've just
seen a message there from leo that says love hypersub shout out Johnny Mac yeah Johnny is awesome I
used Hypersub myself as well to create a track club so I basically shared workouts I made a
telegram chat and as I said it was just a way to be supported as a creator of a community and also
just create an even tighter um a tight relationship with my with my people who mint and was part of that community as well
sorry I'm trying to like read the comments at the same time so apologies if I like get a bit
distracted but Ant says been building on base for more than a year and then this is a great
collective summary for creators thank you so much so another one which I absolutely am so excited about, and this one isn't actually for just creators.
This one is really making a huge difference, and it's built on base actually through the Nouns community, and it's called Flows.
Now with Flows, you can basically apply for a grant.
If you're doing something that is good for public goods, the community, your local community, you can basically
apply to a grant and it's super easy because it uses AI so it's just very very streamlined
and this is all done on base and you kind of connect it through Firecaster and it basically
you can say okay so for instance I want to collect water bottles, which are on the beach in my local area. I apply to
flows, and then they pay you if they if you basically get accepted, they pay you every second.
So for instance, if you're getting 1000 pound for the year, every single second, a little bit of
USDC and on base is coming into your wallet wallet and then you can claim it at any time.
And how they see that you're actually doing this is actually all through Firecaster.
They have an AI bot which automatically reads the casts of updates that you've posted and that
basically shows the impact score and everything that you've built. So again, this is another
example of amazing developers tooling which is actually making a difference for you know the
greater the greater good. I use flows myself to actually help me fund my athletics and do little
challenges. So I do on-chain challenges where I tell people to you know do some press-ups, some
star jumps, post a video of it and then they'll be rewarded and I'm able to claim as you can see here I've earned $314.
I'm able to claim that and then just use that to fund my basically like training my on-chain
training camp. So I think that Flows is a really awesome an awesome way for not just creators but
you know people who want to make a difference on base to really yeah be able to do that.
And this example that I used here was just
nourishing bodies and minds through skateboarding.
And I just think, yeah, they're super, super awesome.
So yeah, shout out to flows.
Okay, so does anybody have any questions
or any other sort of tooling that you want me to talk about
that I haven't mentioned?
And if not, I can carry on. I think
we've seen catalog.radio is another great one for musicians, so thank you, Gray, for sharing that.
Some other ones is echo for minting. There's literally so many that it's actually hard to even,
you know, condense it down to a slides slideshow but this just shows how amazing these developers have been building and creating things for creators. Okay so I'm going
to move on to Farcaster now. I'm going to talk about the wallet, the leaderboard, tips, mini apps
and minting in feed. Let's start off with the Warpcast wallet. But before then, I'm just going to talk about what Farcaster is.
Farcaster is a decentralized social network.
It's kind of like a combination between X and Reddit.
It's a really awesome community feel.
People are really positive on there as well.
And it's just a way for people just to share what they've been up to.
But it goes further than that, because
people, every single user on Firecaster has their own wallet. So embedded right into the app is a
wallet. And you might think, okay, well, why is this relevant? Imagine you're a developer who
wants to build an app, you've just found a literal jackpot. It's a social media, social network,
where every single user has a wallet
with maybe a little bit of ETH, a bit of USD,
already in there, ready to use and test your app.
And I already think that's a major win.
What I absolutely love about Firecaster
is the seamless in-app wallet
and being able to send swap tokens.
And as you can see here in the little diagram that I've used,
you can actually just type in different people's
Farcast usernames.
So for instance, say I wanted to send Coco Codes,
who's speaking right now in the chat, 10 USD.
I can literally just type in Coco Codes 10 usd press send and it goes straight
to his walk as wallet and he can then um you know do what he wants to do with that but i think
that's really really awesome um and i've also been using that for the workout so when people
complete the workout i can easily just go into there um don't get excited now coco i'm not going
to send you 10 well maybe maybe i will no no no i might not if you carry on like being hyped like this then maybe i will but you can um you can send um
people you know you know um usd eth super super easily and it's great for airdrops as well um
which i'm sure other people will get into in the other talks. Don't cry.
I need to talk about Warpcast rewards.
Warpcast reward over 2,000 users every single week.
It's just actually mind-blowing.
Remember when I said I posted on TikTok and got zero,
absolutely zero dollars for for a million views on warpcast I can post every week
and actually get paid just for posting I don't need to get a million views I don't need to get
a million comments I just need to get good engagement and I've onboarded a few people
from X um shout out to Raina shout out to there a few, there's been quite a few who are brand new and have
able to earn on Farcaster as well. So how it works is that based on the amount of engagement you get
and also the amount of followers you have, you can get prizes each week. So actually the lower
the followers you have, the higher on the leaderboard you can go. At the moment on this
leaderboard, a lot of those people in the top five have less than 500 followers so it's not that you need to be a huge influencer,
you can actually make quite a decent amount of money on Warpcast without actually having
to get those crazy numbers that you need on say X or YouTube to monetize.
on say x or youtube to monetize
farcaster has also recently introduced tips as well which again is really cool it's just a prompt
that comes up within farcaster i think it's now going to be every tuesday where you can send your
friends and it automatically gives people who you've interacted with the most um it gives you
those people and you can basically just tick them all off and send them
a one USD as a tip. And I think it's just a really nice way of showing that sort of community
feeling of Farcaster as even though people are getting these rewards, like it also encourages
you to share it out. And I think that's such a based mindset as well. As well as the inbuilt
tips on Farcaster, there's also different coins which are also on base which you
can also tip to people just through a comment which is pretty cool. I'm just reading here that
Coco is also passionate about onboarding folks to Farcaster. That is so true. I've seen Coco
Codes, the Base Africa community absolutely doing amazing on Firecaster and on X, super based.
So now I want to talk about mini apps. Mini apps are apps which are inside Firecaster's social feed
and they support on-chain transactions. One of my favorite mini apps at the moment is called eggs
which I'm basically, it's like a little tamagotchi and I'm looking after a little chicken and each
day it's laying eggs but those eggs are a coin on base and I'm basically getting paid to look after a fake
chicken and it sounds crazy but this is what I mean, these mini apps can be anything and I think
the thing about Farkaster is that if you could come up with a way to make it kind of stand out,
be a little bit quirky, make it shareable, you're actually onto a winner, because the more people who share your frames, you know, that's, that's pretty, that's actually
pretty amazing. Imagine as a developer, if you're trying to, you've built something, you're on X,
like, hey, guys, please leave this really fun scroll that you're doing on X, and leave, and
then go on Safari, and then log in, and then connect to your wallet, so you can test out my app, like,
people probably aren't going to do that. Whereas if it's already inbuilt into
Farcaster, you can just press one button and then they're in. So I think this is something
that developers should definitely be excited about. There's also Farcade. There's a Balloon
Pop game. Like this literally from the most simplest games, that's kind of where it can start. And then there's also amazing,
almost businesses being built in mini apps as well. But I'm sure, as I said, you're going
to learn a lot more about it in the workshops. The amazing thing, as I said, about Farkaster
is you're able to experience, mint, and just play within feed. People do not need to leave the app to be able to interact with the things that you posted.
So here I've used an example of Matt Lee sharing a song that he collected.
And you can just play that without leaving the app.
The song can play.
You can then kind of swipe it down, and the song can continue to play as you scroll through Farcaster.
And I think
that's a really awesome touch. Same with collecting or sharing NFTs, you can post your frame of the NFT,
it can have a little buy, it might say collect and then people can just click collect. Also
with Farcaster, links are not, they don't affect your engagement like X. You can post a link to
something that you've built
over on YouTube or a completely different website and it's not going to sort of punish you in the
algorithm for that as well. Aura is a really great frame that's made by one of my friends Robin and
this is an example of a frame which I think is good because of the shareability of it. I do think
when you're making your mini apps, sorry if I say frame by the way,
it's because mini apps used to be called frames.
So apologies if I kind of mix the two together.
But yeah, with Aura,
I think it's a really good example of a mini app
because it's shareable.
I think if you make one where it has a potential to go viral, definitely do so.
You can do that by already like sort of adding a prompt within the mini app to tell people to share it, to tag their friends.
And I think the awesome thing about Farcaster having that portable social graph is that you can just lift all the names of people on Farcaster, put it in and make something really fun with that.
My aura was Topaz as
well um I think Coco saying his he was a Topaz. Statuette what was your aura? I really want to
know oh and the really funny thing about aura as well is that it used that so um that Farcaster
social graph to tell you people that you need to avoid on Farcaster which I thought was hilarious
and it did this based on your casts as well so it
basically got all your different casts found out who you are and gave you an aura and a color and
all this is done within the mini app on base so that's pretty cool. And I need to talk about
Stream. Stream is one of my favorite mini apps and you're basically able to stream sorry statue is making me laugh because
um she's saying that her aura said to avoid jesse pollock stream is a great mini app which allows
you to live stream directly onto um the warpcast mini app um and as i said because what cast now
has that sort of minimize swipe down feature you You can scroll the Warpcast feed whilst watching
your favorite streamers. And not only that, you're able to tip the person you're watching,
and the person you're watching can tip you as well. So if I was on stream right now,
I'd be able to send Statuette a USD, send Coco his USD without even leaving the platform all on
base. So here I'm hopefully just getting those clocks working
of all these different examples of mini apps,
of platforms that creators have made and are using
to just, yeah, basically make the most out of base.
So that is everything.
I really hope that that was okay.
I hope that you've learned something today.
And if you have any questions,
then please feel free to ask them now.
And yeah.
I'll just say really quick,
that was absolutely incredible, Naomi.
I literally couldn't have done
even half as good of a job if I wanted to.
Absolutely incredible coverage
of the current landscape of Farcaster
and a lot of great builds on base.
You really did almost cover everything.
That comment was really poignant.
And I do want to say,
I first saw Naomi when she was doing,
I believe, a live video for Coinbase specifically.
And then maybe a week or two later,
I had people that I was meeting on
Farcaster who were new saying that they had found Farcaster because of Naomi. And then I had met her
maybe a month later at Base House. So I mean, literally, I can't even believe your journey and
how intense it's all been, how fast it's all been, and how high quality it all has been. It's been
such an incredible experience to see your journey and to see you here giving a workshop after
just grabbing the space by the hand and taking it for yours and making it your bitch. So really glad
that you took control in that way because this is what what we want to see this is what crypto is for and i'm i'm glad you're you're showcasing how others can do the same
um and then and the last thing i'll say is i'm really upset that naomi joined warpcast specifically
because she beats me on the warpcast leaderboards every week so and and i was like one of the first
like 800 people on the app so i'm uh pretty upset about it oh my gosh that is so funny but i know you guys all have questions i mean i literally was laughing
that entire time i i almost came on and and chatted and commented like four or five times
thank you for keeping it fun and interactive no of course thank you all for keeping the vibes
going this is why i love bass and i think just on what you said about you met me and yeah, we didn't even know each other. And now look, we're like doing this and it just feels like I've known you forever. And that's kind of what it's like to get everybody on BASE. And what I love is that it's permissionless. Like nobody has to tell you like, okay, do this. And here's a big contract that you need to sign. If you're gonna, like you can build anything on BASE and B base is really there to support you with whatever you want to do so yeah shout out to base i think
they're they're really awesome with what they're doing to empower and builders and creators
and that's why we're here right like we're here to empower more bills and creators so like to
to have an org like base just be as supportive or be as value aligned i should say is really
impressive and and that's why we're doing this you you know. It's not like we work for base, you know.
So we're just part of the community who really enjoy having a place
to have our on-tate activities.
Yes, for sure.
A few people asking me for my socials.
So on X, it's AfroChicksNFT.
And on Warpcast, it's just afro chicks so afro as in hair chicks as in the little chicks chicken things it's late here it's almost midnight please
thank you and let me guess you heard about eggs because of the airdrop right like the
that's really interesting linda would love to hear that i wish he was here right now for that i know
no it's true i um i i got the airdrop and i was like what is this like eggs like what and then i
just went on the frame and then it was like oh just 250
more eggs to get another chicken and then before i knew it i'm like buying chickens and i'm like
what am i doing and then now i've got more eggs than the initial airdrop so i'm like obsessed
and yeah so these are great as i said it's a great way to get people who never would have heard of
the mini app to suddenly be obsessed with it so So I'm checking my eggs and my chickens every day.
I love that.
You're like, now I'm raising chickens.
I mean, everyone in crypto is a farmer eventually.
You know, you either start as a DeFi farmer
and as an airdrop farmer.
I mean, everyone's somewhere in between.
That's so great.
Yeah, I mean, actually the a game was pretty confusing so i think you just explained it in the most uh simple way for for everyone to go to go farm
oh yeah and if you're not farming on farville that's the other one and the other the best part
about your presentation is like half of the things half of the apps and builds that you talked about
like we'll be hosting on panels throughout this week and next so it'll be really uh cool to uh for
people to see your perspective and then to hear from the people actually building the thing as
well later on so absolutely fantastic awesome and yeah there's literally so many mini apps i don't
know what the number is but i could have just spent another like four hours talking about all
the different ones there's so many so i do encourage everyone to go on warpcast and explore those
because yeah there's there's lots of fun ones but i like the third mini app i was like oh shit how
many is she gonna go over i was like we're going through the whole leaderboard aren't we
i'm sure dan would appreciate it you know
and just said just reminded me to collect my eggs
and minted my aura.
Yep.
See, these things become a routine.
They become a ritual.
So yeah.
What other frames do you use daily?
Daily, well, obviously the leaderboard.
I have to check my position.
I'm an athlete, so I have an athlete mindset.
It's like a competition for me.
There's also Amp.StopFun, which is a really cool one,
which I didn't mention,
which basically allows people to boost their content.
So say that they made an app
and they wanted more people to get their eyes on it,
they can use Amp.StopFun.
And then permissionlessly, people,
like, I can't explain how it works, but I can use amps.fun and then permissionlessly people like i can't explain
how it works but i can be sleeping i check my um coinbase wallet and i've just made three dollars
fifty and i've also recasted and liked something and that's because as i said that filecaster is
that um it's decentralized and they're able to just use my account like it retweet it obviously
i've gave permission but i've just got paid for liking and retweeting without any friction so yeah i think amps is pretty cool it's funny you said
that because i was actually about to show amps and uh i i said that to somebody the other day
they're like how did naomi come up so fast and i was like look it's that it's that athlete mindset
like you got to be disciplined you got to stay on the grind you got to do it daily like this is
this is how it goes like you got to practice yeah and i see i see um statuette also has an athlete mindset um as uh she's the balloon
champion congratulations um also arcade how can i not mention farcade i mean there's like countless
games within farcade um which are super cool and i love tower blocks as well i'm pretty good at that
speaking of farcade anyone here currently play
farcade and what are your favorite games if you do i'm actually really really curious like how
much people play farcade and what their favorite games are i think the one i play is called eclipse
i actually can't remember the name but it's like the the like bungee one uh i don't know yeah but
it's so fun yeah i know i know and i'm glad that they they don't even know. But it's so fun. I know. And I'm glad that
they don't have the ticket system anymore, so
you're just able to play.
Every time you run out of tickets, I'm like, no!
I mean, we're
getting to a place where we're
figuring out what models work.
Yeah.
Just got to keep iterating.
Yeah, definitely.
Higher Jump is good. Oh, yeah yeah and waka bird is coming i guess they're building a waka
flock a flappy bird oh that would be cool yeah i'll play that oh yes hunt on hunt on is great
i literally did make a slide and i was like, okay, I think this is too many slides. But yes, I think Hunt Town is an awesome way for basically people to scout amazing builders. So if somebody just launches something, you're able to tip them using the hunt token or even just a little applause emoji. And the person who has the most, the highest score that day gets a mini building NFT and then they can burn that and get about $30 per mini building.
So it's an awesome way for creators to be rewarded for things that,
or builders to be rewarded just by anybody, you know,
without, you know, having to grind on the leaderboard.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
So if you are a builder in the space on Farcaster and Base, etc.,
now you have a pretty good idea of what people are using,
what consumers are interested in, what gets people excited.
So I hope that's really good context,
whether you're using or whether you're building on Farcaster.
What is app.stokefire.xyz?
I actually haven't played Stokefire, but that one that people seem locked in with that
game i'm surprised i haven't heard of this yeah it's still after home screen whoa logging with
farcaster all right good start good start yeah like a village on chain i know that they have
there's a fire token involved oh this is yeah people are
locked in with this one oh that's super fun games are really starting to get big i love it i mean
back in the day like i'd say like four or five years ago when people were trying to build on
chain games it was all about monetization before even building the game and now like people are
just building games without even figuring out monetization. And you've got to start there.
You have to start from zero.
Can't start at 100.
Yeah, and I think just having that amount of feedback
is probably even more important at the beginning
than even the monetization
because you're able to make your game even better,
see where all the bugs are.
People are like, hey, that bit doesn't work.
And you're getting that instant feedback.
And I think that's really great
for game developers as well. Right right and actually the gaming community on
base is is thriving like absolutely thriving if you're building a game on on base please reach
out to zach prater he is like the guy to talk to he's been organizing a lot of base game nights and
base founder sessions etc um he'll be on on the panel for the base games tomorrow.
So if you're building a base game,
make sure you reach out to Zach. Absolutely.
The person to know. And we'll connect you with all the
other builders. Like Naomi said,
it's super helpful to be in a
group of people who are also building something similar.
Get that feedback and
iterate together. There are so
many people who have gone through the rodeo before,
you know, don't need to make the same mistakes.
Yeah.
And in fact, would love to make the same successes.
Yeah.
Naomi, is there any last things you'd like to go over?
I just want to just encourage people that they should definitely,
don't be afraid to build and
as I said Farcaster is a really friendly and positive environment of course people are going
to give you feedback but it doesn't have that sometimes scariness that I sometimes find with
with other social medias I feel like people are there to really support you and as I said in this
base community there's so many people who you can just reach out to and send a message to and
you'll become like friends you become like family so yeah I definitely would recommend
building on base and if you need a hand you feel free to reach out to me I'm sure you can reach out
to Luciano as well like yeah we're here and we're all like collaborating and helping each other and
I think that's how we grow so 100% and and just follow that up home base is a completely decentralized community. We're just
a group of base builders and creators. So home base is for everyone. Base is for everyone. We
want you here. We want you to be here. If you don't want to be here, that's also cool. But
feel free to ask us for anything that you need. We will always be here to help you guys.
that you need we will always be here to help you guys all right thank you so much naomi that was
absolutely incredible um and can't wait to do it again yes definitely it's four minutes to midnight
now i'll do anything for bass that's what that's what um you guys have learned i will do anything
for bass but yeah um i'm gonna head to bed now but it's been a blast thanks so much for having
me thank you everyone in the chat he's just been like the best vibes um yeah it's been a
lot of fun and i hope you've learned something as i said so we need to get a bumper we need to get a
bumper sticker that says that we'll do anything for bass yeah oh i like that d-a-f-b oh my gosh
thank you everyone bye P-A-F-B. Oh, my gosh. Thank you, everyone.
Bye.
All right, everyone.
We'll be starting off our next session here within the next two minutes.
Just give me a second while I add in our next host. Welcome, welcome. Eric and Dylan, how are we today?
Doing well. How are you?
Doing fantastic. Super glad you could both join us i'm sure pat will
be on in a second um so we can give it a few seconds we can kind of just shoot the shit and
until he shows up and if he doesn't then we'll we'll just get to it so he also might be joining
as well i know it's a little late for her so we'll see if she ends up joining us or not
yeah talk about doing anything for babe i think it's also a little bit past midnight where Sohi is, so who knows? Who might get her last minute? What's funny is
she said about two hours ago that she was doing a minikit session, and I was like, okay, if you
happen to be up and ready for another session right after that, let me know, but do not prioritize
it. Sleep is more important, so hopefully she gets not, you know, do not prioritize it. You know, sleep is more important.
So hopefully she gets her sleep.
Yeah, definitely.
A lot of exciting things going on with Minikit right now too.
So excited to chat a little bit about that.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm super excited to get your and Patrick's perspective on it
and then hear a little bit from maybe Dylan
and maybe even some comments from people in the session
who are using Minikit
and some of the other 20A. So we should be prepared for a really interesting session.
And I think Naomi did a really good job of sort of framing what currently exists
in the space that people are using to kind of preface to developers, you know,
what should they think be thinking about building?
And what are people currently building?
Eric, I don't know if we've gotten the chance. It's great to get to virtually meet you finally.
Yeah, yeah, likewise. So much is happening. I feel like all the time there's new people that are in the arena, as they say. So, yeah, excited to meet virtually as well.
Awesome. Yeah, a lot of arena-ing going on right now everywhere.
Were you at East Denver, Dylan?
I was, yeah. I was at the base house with Luciano. I didn't go to all the events, but yeah, I was there
which was awesome at the base house
start of home base, technically
Yeah. Dylan was
grinding out Farhack almost the entire
time, thankfully, so we had
a nice little platform ready
for our mini hackathon
so huge shout out to Dylan
for building out Farhack and making
sure that was ready
I mean man almost didn't leave his room
Almost didn't leave base house
Because he was building so much
He barely even made it to Ethanver
So shout out Dylan
I appreciate it
Well get ready because he's got rewritten the third time
For Farcon Builder's Day
Coming very soon
Oh man I'm super excited Super excited for farcon all right patrick is
using miniket and using miniket oh might have to talk about that later i'm gonna add patrick
on and we'll get started patrick welcome welcome home welcome good morning Good morning. GM, GM.
All right.
So if Eric, Dylan, Pat, give a quick 20-second intro about yourself, and then we'll go into some of the questions.
Cool.
Sure.
I can kick it off.
Hi, everybody.
I'm Eric, eric.base.eth, as you might see me on socials.
I lead the DevRel team at Base.
I've been building on-chain since 2017.
I'm a former on-chain founder as well,
so I've gone through the founder journey
and got to experience all that.
It was an amazing experience.
And then I have spent a lot of time working
with different developer communities
from the smart contract security space
to vibe coding with AI.
So, yeah, super excited to have everybody today.
I guess I'll kick it over to Dylan.
Sure. Yeah. Hey, everyone. Super excited to be here.
I'm Dylan, dylstec.eth or dylstec.base.eth.
I just started at base about like a month and a half or so ago.
I'm an engineer working on Coinbase Wallet.
Really excited to be able to talk about it more soon,
but I'm sure you guys know there's a lot of changes going on there.
And I'm just really excited as well about mini apps,
what we offer with Minikit, a whole bunch of other tooling,
and just seeing what everyone's built.
Feels like it's a really exciting time.
So great to be here.
And thank you, Luciano and everyone for organizing.
And I will pass it over to Patrick.
Thank you and welcome, Dylan.
Hey, everyone.
Patrick.
I've been in crypto since about like 2018 and have been at Coinbase for about three years now.
Actually, the Coin-niversary is like this week.
So it's officially three years.
But I've been on base for maybe about like nine months or so as DevRel.
So I'm working with Eric and we've built out this team.
It's awesome.
And I'm excited to be here.
Thank you guys so much.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you so much for being based.
Really appreciate both.
So I'm going to start with asking Eric a question, and then I'll just kind of go
around asking each a question. But feel free if the question that I ask Eric, you also want to
jump in and answer, feel free to just go for it. And then we'll just move on after, you know,
you all are done answering to a point that you're happy with so first uh eric let's start with you uh let's just
start with very simple uh what is base and uh and why yeah yeah we have a common refrain people
have likely heard before but it really is the best way to explain base is it's a global on-chain
economy that's increasing innovation creativity and freedom. But beyond that, getting a little bit more into
the why base side of things, what is base? Base is a globally available platform that provides
sub-second transactions that's available to anybody in the world. It's a place for builders.
We have an amazing developer community, non-technical founders, creators, technical founders,
community, non-technical founders, creators, technical founders, super cracked engineers.
We have an incredible community of folks that help everybody else build in the open, build
in public.
And then beyond that, of course, on our side, we're building tons of dev tooling.
We provide a lot of support that goes beyond just how do you get to production?
I like to say build on base, thrive on base,
because it's not just about the building part,
it's about the thriving part as well,
and making sure that once you're in production,
you still have all the support that you need
to really be successful on base.
And then I think the last part of it is like,
base is a place to earn, right?
It's a place to earn for builders who are shipping
and creating these awesome apps
in these new distribution pipelines. It's a place for creators to take advantage of the fact that,
you know, we're taking away a lot of the margin that is normally captured by centralized platforms
and sharing that with creators and innovating on that frontier. So basically the place to earn as
well. So I'll leave it at that. But those are the things that immediately come to mind to me. I'm sure that Dylan and Pat have some other things to add to that as well.
Is that true Dylan or Pat? What is base to you and why?
Sure, I'm happy to take my own stab at it. So I think what Eric, the overview Eric just gave
was awesome. At the core base is
an Ethereum L2 makes it really easy to get on chain and do things on chain. You can connect
easily to your Coinbase account. You can use tools like smart wallets to make it really easy and have
defaults like taking assets from your Coinbase account and then moving them over to base to be
able to interact with this on chain economy. Base works all across the world.
There's also a really cool emerging sector of stable coins per region,
which maybe if you're on Farkaster or Twitter,
you've seen Jesse posting a lot recently.
And we have a bunch of different ways to amplify developers
through programming like this, the Base Builders program,
on-chain kit and mini kit, Coinbase Developer Platform and AgentKit.
Those four that I mentioned are really just tools for you to build any sort of project
and to get all of the advantages we have, like Coinbase APIs, Paymasters, all the above.
And really just creating this ecosystem of people who are excited to build on base,
like the fact that you, Luciano, as a community member,
take this much initiative to be excited about base
or that people want to build frames and mini apps on base,
that is one of the most inspiring things
and to me kind of defines why I think a lot of people
choose to build on base and why I did
when I first found out about it.
Wait, Dylan, are you the dev rel or they're the dev rel?
No, I'm kidding.
No, it's just my thoughts.
So you guys both had on two really important pieces.
I'm going to throw it over to Pat for the same question.
You talked about some of the use cases, the products,
and then you both said the why was the network effect.
So I think it's really interesting that most people,
when they say why base, of course, like the use cases do
matter. And those builds do matter. But the network effect continues to remain king. And do you guys
have any any reason why you think like that network effect is so strong on base specifically?
I'm happy to jump in if the other guys will let me.
I think that if you just keeping it too high level before going in a rabbit hole, which sometimes I like to do, is that if you look at how the new online, not just on chain, the online world organized itself, It's all about the community of people, right? And
more and more, the competitive moat, for lack of a better phrase, really is your community.
And we're incredibly blessed to have this awesome community that's just like out of fever pitch,
looking to jump in however they can, contribute a part of the movement and that's something that
like the amount of leverage that that has is massive right like it's very hard to create the
amount of lift that that community can create no matter how big your team is no matter how cracked
you are like it's not until you tap into that like global distributed community that you really get this just like all of a sudden you see that hockey stick curve happen.
And so I think that's why we often talk about the community.
We place so much emphasis on the community is because that's what it gives to like everybody else in the community.
And that's the beautiful part about it. It's like this very symbiotic aspect of building in the public, supporting each other. It all kind of like boomerangs back to you when you invest in that
community. It is very reflexive. Yeah. I also think like from a practical standpoint, like
the number one thing I hear from people in crypto is that like they want more users and how do you
get more users? You have more like distribution ways to reach those users and I think like the base team and the
base community has been very intentional about knowing like what things builders need and
providing it so whether it's amplifying or retweet or different programs and I think like one of the
best things to see is like not just how on it everyone is in terms of embracing new ideas or what the meta is,
but also understanding, again, these core things
that builders actually really want
that aren't just great to have on a website or say you do,
but really matter when you think about the results
and where it's going to bring a builder.
You bring up a great point that base caters to developers.
So, Pat, maybe it'd be a good question to ask you, how does base cater cater to developers and how do they do it so well? How do you do it so well?
Yeah, I think it's a collective effort in order to do this, right? I mean, yes, we have this awesome team that creates awesome developer tool, you know, on chain kit, we have the Coinbase developer platform, right? We make our documents open source, right?
Open source is actually a really big part of a base and building on-chain.
And again, that community aspect is actually what brought me here, right?
It's like, have you ever seen something where you can contribute to, you can, you know,
add on to and it take effect and it kind of changes around you.
Right. So, for example, like on the off chain world, right.
I am like a level five, like Google Maps guide, right.
You know, contributing photos and reviews, right.
But I haven't got jacked from Google.
Exactly. But if I contribute to Farcaster, if I contribute to a community, I can earn from it.
I can help others with what I post and also receive something from it.
So I think one of the largest, one of the biggest ways that we help developers today is obviously through our open sourcing, our tools, our products and things like that.
And then working with the community.
I kind of think it's also great to talk about base batches.
This is, I guess this thing is fire, right?
So first of all, like we hear from the community of like,
hey, we want funding, you know, recognition.
We want technical help. We want support from base.
Like base batches is that thing all in one.
It's an incubator. It's a build-a-thon.
It's a way to get funding. It's a way to grow.
It's a way to get recognition for all your hard work.
And I guess, you know, I guess we'll talk more about it later.
I'm sure it'll come up.
But that's one of the ways, again, like we are helping developers not just grow their product, but get that virality and outreach.
I mean, it sounds so simple, like, you know, just listening to developers.
Like it sounds like something super simple to do, but obviously most ecosystems don't do it. And like I said to Tom on the earlier session, it has
just become consensus within the last two, three years that we need to focus on
these hackathon projects past the hackathon itself. So it's really important that we
create this new set of infrastructure, this new process
for builders to be able to tap in hackathon style, but also keep building
thereafter and get the support they need. base batches is absolutely brilliant and i'm super glad i get to support it
and super glad you guys uh you guys are running it up but like how how i guess eric like let's
pass it over to you how do you end up actually determining like this is the solution and how do
And how do you prove to not only internally, like to yourselves, but how do you get external validation?
you prove to not only internally like to yourselves but how do you get external validation
Well, I think it's all those pieces, right?
I'd say that everything we do is like data-driven, hypothesis-based.
So you have this data-driven input of, you know, how many people are building on base.
on base. We have a lot of internal metrics for that. And how do you try and move that needle?
We have a lot of internal metrics for that.
And how do you try and move that needle?
We have a super tight feedback loop with the devs in our community, listening to them,
technical, non-technical, that whole cohort. And then from that feedback, you form a hypothesis,
right? All of us are aware of the fact that the existing hackathon circuit, while it does catalyze
builders and it provides benefits beyond maybe just like going from
hacker to founder, but the pain point being that everybody is trying to go hacker to founder
and you're trying to build these products that are more sustainable.
And so then the hypothesis is right now as well, we think that there's a very clear way
that we can extend and elongate what used to be this point in time moment of the hackathon
to this longer, long-bodied initiative
that takes you all the way through the flow. I'm sure there's going to be things that come
the end of base batches number one that we're going to look at and be like, okay, base batch
is number two. This is how we're going to do it differently. This is how we're going to improve.
But it's just that process. And that's why we really push, not just for ourselves, but for
everybody building our communities, like
building the public, right? Like your unique value proposition, we have a unique value
proposition at base, right? Like anything that exists has a unique value proposition.
And as a builder, you want to be testing that as ruthlessly as possible. And the best way
to do that is build it in the open, let everybody roast it, let yourself fall on your face and
learn from it. And so that's just, I guess,
taking a little bit of our internal methodology
and trying to get everybody who's listening to say,
like, don't be afraid, don't be shy,
get it out there, get that feedback.
And that's how you're gonna be able to either one know,
hey, okay, we're hitting the mark,
but here's some things that we can do better.
Or like, man, we're totally off the mark,
but a bunch of people have asked for this thing and maybe we can like target that and find something that's
really valuable there. Yeah, I think that that level of iteration is really, really important.
And Dylan, Patrick, is there any, how do you how do you see this kind of iteration?
I was just gonna kind of add on to Eric's point. I think one of the things that I learned,
kind of add on to Eric's point, I think one of the things that I learned, you know, when I transitioned
from the insto side to base, it was the shipping speed of just ruthlessly just deploying something,
shipping something, doesn't matter how small, how big, right? Just moving the needle forward
and making mistakes, being vulnerable, and then fixing them, right? Like, you know, this base,
this version of base batches is probably going to be really good. But the next one is going to be
even better. Because the feedback loop, the way the team cares about like, feedback, collecting
feedback, and then iterating and making it better. I'm super excited for that. And so I think it's
really about, you know, the shipping speed,
being vulnerable, you know, allow yourself to get roasted, right? But there's positivity behind it.
People are just, you know, roasting you for a reason, right? They want to see you do better.
They want your app, your product, whatever you're putting out there to be better. So it's good vibes.
It does build momentum, too, like really healthy momentum for whatever you're building.
And when you're iterating like that and you finally actually make something people actually want to use, you now have found Real Product Market Fit, hopefully.
And I think this is why there's so much momentum within the base builder community, because, you know, if base itself is building in this way, you know, that needs to be done.
Others recognize it and they share in the ethos and they do the same thing and uh effort does equal outcome in that way yeah i'm gonna hop in real quickly too because to carry
the thread to its next step about like shipping quickly yeah that's why we do things like you know
we started these base builder quests at Denver.
We did our third one last week with Minikit and they're 24 hours. And there's a reason for that,
right? It's like you can today get something to market in 24 hours. It might not be the prettiest thing. It might not have all the features you wanted it to have, but it will be in market and
you will get feedback on it. And it's a lot easier to improve something that exists than to create
something for the very first time so just like make it exist and then iterate on it and it's
easier to do that than just try and like start from nothing and get caught in this loop of like
oh if i just add this one more thing or that one more thing when i go to market it'll feel better
because it's a little bit more polished like get beyond that and like challenge yourself like sit down say i got 24 hours or less right like a lot of folks it's 24 hours for because
it's global but most people are building these things in you know three four hours if not less
you know be on the lookout at some point we're going to do like a one hour base builder quest
right like get to market and it's possible today so just work that muscle a really good example of
that is uh new people to farcaster who are now just building mini apps,
like almost as soon as they come to Farcaster, they're like, oh, like, what's this cool thing?
I'm on this new app. Oh, a mini app? Oh, like, let me see if I can build one. Literally within
a couple hours, they already have something up. They already have feedback on it. It's really
incredible to see, you know, whether it's like some fantastic product or not. I mean, to actually
have real distribution for an app that you built, like instantly is really, really special. So, all
right, that's, thank you guys so much for kicking off the sort of what is base and why session. I
think that was absolutely perfect. Now let's start moving on a little bit into what's on base and
what excites you most about what's being built on base currently and what excites
it most in general?
Dylan, do you want to kick this one off?
I know that we've been chatting a little bit.
Sure.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, what excites me building on base?
I've been very focused on mini apps, so I think that is really exciting.
If you don't know, I'm sure we'll talk about it more, but we have Minikit,
which is built on top of OnChain Kit. OnChain Kit is a React-based framework you can install, and it gives you a bunch of benefits for building an app, connecting with SmartWallet,
funding via Apple Pay, showing mints, swaps, a bunch of stuff, and it's used by top-tier teams
and also by Coinbase products. And so you can tell that it covers you getting started,
but it also covers you scaling into a very robust product.
And then on top of that, we have Minikit,
which is you get all the benefits of OnChainKit,
but on top of it, we do all of the stuff
that's a little bit more annoying
with setting up a mini app.
We generate the manifest,
which is like the file that tells an app like Warpcast
that it's an okay mini app.
We set up notifications for you, all this extra stuff.
And so you just get an example app and you can go in and with a tool like Cursor, V0,
whatever, like start building a really cool on-chain app,
especially because you're going to be having this distribution coming up in Coinbase Wallet.
I think it's just an awesome time to be building mini apps.
And although there are so many different great things being built on base, I think this is just an awesome time to be building mini apps. And although there are so many
different great things being built on base, I think is one of the most exciting. And if you
are already building an app on base or in crypto in general, it is very easy for you to toggle
these mini app settings and just get the extra benefits of that distribution. So I'll just leave
it at that for now. But if you guys have anything else to add on, you know, take it away.
Awesome.
I said base batches.
I'm going to say one more thing.
I'm not going to go too much in detail because I think you said this way better.
It's going to be way better at talking about this.
But it's base MCP.
And going beyond just like AI agents,
like we know you can build ai agents and we have
asian kin for that um we you know we just open source base ncp so it gives uh llms easier access
to functions and using them on chain it's like a server right um but i have this theory that
through with ai and through like mcp we're going to have an era where just
crypto is kind of baked into normal, like what we would think is like Web2 apps, just
because it's so much easier to integrate now with AI. And there's going to be more servers,
there's going to be more APIs that are going to be available to these LLMs or it's like,
well, why not just have a payment system on base uh
why wouldn't we right it would it's not it's only going to cost us an extra hour or so of developer
time um so outside of base batches uh i'm excited for the bridge that ai has created for crypto
um and um yeah i'm excited for us to you to bring, I think that's going to help us
bring the world on chain.
Yeah.
You're completely right.
Eric, go ahead.
Yeah, well, I'll just build off what they both said.
And I think circling back to Dylan's point about distribution with mini apps, one example
I'll just throw out there.
I don't have the exact number, but we, the a mini app on Farcaster that anybody can bring a game to.
And they had this stat that somebody basically built a game overnight, and then the next day it had thousands of plays.
And that's something that's impossible with the traditional app distribution pipeline, right?
It's like you have to get into the store, get approval, get it in It's like, you have to, you know, get into the store,
get approval, get it in people's hands.
People have to go download it.
Like that, you skip all of that.
It's just like your app is suddenly getting played
by thousands of people,
leveraging the network effects
that everybody's already used to.
And that's, it's just incredibly powerful.
I like anybody who's listening
who hasn't had a chance to take a look at mini apps,
just in general,
really encourage you to look at Minikit
if you want to build, but just try it.
Play them, get a feel for it,
see the social sharing aspect of it.
And you'll get a sense of like,
okay, there's like,
I might not know exactly how the future
of distribution is going to look,
but this is definitely going to be a huge part of it.
So that's super exciting.
Check that out. Outside of the things that Pat and Dylan talked about, I think that obviously
like SmartWallet and all the advancements that have happened in the user experience side of
crypto has been really game-changing in the last two years. So excited about that. I'm excited
about all these really cool features in SmartWallet, native on-ramp, gasless transactions, pass keys for authentication, sub-accounts for managing
disparate embedded apps. That's even still, today I scroll into the feed, I see people talking about
kind of the fragmented wallet experience that's a result of embedded apps. I see, I think it was just today
that what friend.tech or something
is switching away from embedded accounts
just causing pain points for people.
Subaccount solves all of that, right?
So like you could have set up
your friend.tech embedded account,
tied it to your Coinbase smart wallet.
And now when you see this announcement
that they're moving away from it,
you wouldn't have to do anything.
You know that you have access over your account. so that's the only big part of like you know like what's happening on base like what are these things
that we're doing is a lot of it is like how do we create this user experience that's just like
super cohesive and isn't just like the same as off-chain it's better than off-chain because
now all of a sudden when you sign into an application it's not just
authenticating to log you in and get access to your data it's like you log in and you have all
your finances brought into it all of your on-chain data everything that you own on the internet comes
with you to the application and that creates this like there's going to be some really exciting
things that come out of that i i couldn't agree more. And to both your points, I mean,
it's only being abstracted away more and more as time goes on.
So it's going to get to the point where people really don't even really see
what's going on under the hood.
It's just going to happen the way that they expect it to.
Yeah. One other thing too, that I'll just add,
that's maybe a little bit more on the simple side of things,
but it's still super important is like stable coins. Like that's happening on base right now in a really, really big way where you
have a lot of these global currencies that are now coming on chain and providing people of all
sorts of different nationalities access on chain and their stable local currency. And I think
that's a really powerful way to see the benefits
of just like why on chain, like you look at doing a foreign exchange between, you know,
the US dollar and euro is one example that we provided a while back. It's been a while now that
you've been able to do that, which is really cool. But you know, instant, like fraction of a
percentage swap fees on international currencies, which is something that's never been done before.
And it's happening on this. And as these stable coins grow, the amount of just like
relatively simple, but massive utility plays, like being able to move money across borders,
move money between currencies in a single click without needing to really even think about it,
having access to your own money, like all of of those things sometimes we forget to talk about because it's become common for
us, but I think it's really important to keep talking about it for everybody who's still
coming on chain because those value propositions still, I think, have some of the largest utility
of the things that are happening on chain.
I definitely agree. Any final thoughts, Dylan, Pat?
All right. So I think that just about covers why we are all so excited about the future of BASE and to build on BASE.
Now I want to go into a little bit about how builders can get started on base and some of the resources that they should be focused on.
First, I'm going to say anyone who is listening right now, please put in your base ENS name.
If you don't have a base name, let us know. Maybe at the end of the session, we'll show you how to get one.
So everyone put in your ENS, put in your ETH address, put in your base name,
whatever you currently have available. Put it in the chat and we'll make sure that you get a pull
up and maybe some other fun things. Also, I'm going through the chat. I see this question about
Minikin with distribution and Coinbase wallet. I just wanted to really quickly touch on when the time is right,
there will be more information available publicly.
What I can kind of say is using Minikit will make it even easier to make sure
that your app works seamlessly across both clients.
For example, there may be one thing or something that's written
that works a certain way in Warp that's written that works a certain way in
Warpcast, but maybe works a different way in another app. And so Minikit helps you in many
different ways, but it should also help make it so that your mini app will just work out of the box
in Warpcast, in Coinbase Wallet, our other clients that come about. And again, we'll have more info
as the time is right, but just wanted to kind of address that in the meantime.
Yeah, thanks. I was actually going to ask you to address that. Okay, great. So now that
that's done, we're going to move on to a little bit about how builders can get started on
base. Where's the best place to go? What's top of funnel? And what are the best resources?
So feel free to take it off, whoever wants to go ahead and start.
I guess I'll take a stab, and then if Eric or Dylan has anything else to add, they can hop in.
But I believe if you are a Web2 developer, may have coded an app in the past,
and you're like, what is this this like on-chain stuff i got
i just want to wet my feet a little bit what do i do um i would definitely head over to like on
chain kit clone a template app and play around with it look through the project uh uh the project
structure um get familiar with VM, Wagme,
like these sorts of libraries that are tried and true.
There's a big ecosystem, right?
If you're looking for help and you're using Wagme,
VM, OnChainKit, you're going to have thousands of developers
who are going to be able to help you with that, right?
So I think that's one of the best places to start.
So check out the AgentKit replet, create an OnChain agent, right? So I think that's one of the best places to start. So check out the Agent Kit Replit,
create an on-chain agent, right?
Minikit, again, like all the things
that we're sharing with you, they may be new,
they may be old, but there's so many people
that are gonna be able to help you with these things, right?
Sohee, who was in here, she did a workshop last week on it, there's a recording for it. She built a guide on how to use Minikit, right? So he who was in here, she did a workshop last week on it,
there's a recording for it. She built a guide on how to use minikit, right? And so this thing was
just released when there's so many people who are building with it. We did the barbecue,
so the builder quest, right? So not only do you have reference applications you can check out, look at their GitHub, clone, try and tweak it and make it your own. We have guides, tutorials, and things like that.
And obviously check out our docs, docs.base.org. And there's also base.org
four-size builders, our builder site. You can build an app in 10 minutes.
Again, I don't want to gloss over this. You can build an app in 10 minutes. Like, again, like, I don't want to, like, gloss over this, right? You can build an app in 10 minutes that has authentications,
payments, you can have users log into your app, start getting, like, this thing, like,
building on chain is the way to go. Especially if you're new to development, like, why not build
where the future is going? Why not build part of a global on-chain economy, right?
Your first user might be somewhere in Europe, Asia, like completely across the globe.
So that's how I would say like get started.
I don't know if you...
Let's say this person has no contacts whatsoever in terms of crypto.
What is one resource you would give them?
One advice?
One resource.
One website, one
doc, one...
And you only got one.
What did you say?
I'm serious.
I was going to say
the same thing.
That's what I was expecting.
And really, I'm serious. Yeah. I was going to say the same thing. Okay, Matt, that's what I was expecting all this time.
Yeah, yeah. And really, obviously, you know, there's a bias, no doubt. But I think that this is something that is, like I said, I've been building on chain since 2017. And what building on chain looks like has changed drastically. There is with any new innovative technology, a lot of information which can cause
information analysis paralysis. And it's also sometimes really hard to decipher like, what is
the value behind this? Right? Like, where am I going to go with this? There's all these new terms,
there's all these new like aspects of the tech stack i need to think about like well you know
there's all these new like aspects of the tech stack I need to think about.
what what's the real value and i think that one base.org we have a lot of really helpful resources
for people to begin to understand that two base.org slash builders it gives you an overview of all the
different tools that are available to you to start building on chain and i actually even think to pat's
point is like what's the best way to learn about something? There's really no better way than to like, do it to feel it. And because you can,
we have template repos, you don't even need to code a single line, you can spin up a template repo.
You know, soon we'll have like, you know, Vercel templates where you don't even need to like do
anything locally, it'll just instantly be available for you. Like, that's a great way for you to start
to feel the effects and feel, okay, this is what's happening on chain. So that I think would be like one really great,
just like if you have to pick only one resource to go to. And kind of like along those lines,
even if you have no coding experience, you know, you can build it in 10 minutes
by coding with AI. And we're doing a lot to make sure that that's super easy, right?
Like we're making iterative updates to our LMS.txt files that are on our docs.base.org.
They're specific to each of our products that the AI agents can really easily parse that.
You can just copy paste that into your context.
And then also on ChainKit, I think it's just,
it's an awesome library of React components
and TypeScript utilities that gives you kind of the full,
if you're really high level,
you can just grab the components.
If you want to get into the nitty gritty,
you can grab the API endpoints.
It gives you kind of that full customization that you want
and then grab your LMS.txt file, throw it in cursor.
And all of a sudden you're off to the
races with all the context you need to build a really cool app. And what's great about those
components is we've also built them out to solve a lot of the most common pain points. And so by
going through implementing those components, you start to get a feel of what the different aspects
of building on chain feels like. It's like, oh, there's an on-ramp here. If you've never built on chain before,
you might not know that there's a pain point
for getting users off chain funds on chain.
But you see this on-ramp feature, you're like,
oh, okay, this solves something for me.
So just go through those components
and you'll start to get a really good knack
for like what is on chain
and what does it feel like to build on chain.
I think that's probably the perfect place for most people to
start. I mean, I'm thinking about from like a young person's perspective, who's, you know,
still in college, and they don't have much time to like, learn outside of like their current
curriculum, you know, but they want to, and they will, they just need to find that one thing to
focus on. And, and I think that's exactly it, where, you know, they already have some context around,
you know, how some of this build works.
Now they just need some context around, like,
how this build would work in crypto specifically,
some of the components that they would need.
And if it's all in one place for them,
just kind of get an idea of,
oh, I can plug this in, here's what it solves.
I can plug this in, here's what it solves.
Didn't know that was a problem,
but, like, I see, you know, how it would be. I can plug this in, here's what solves. Didn't know that was a problem, but like,
I see how it would be.
And then they can just sort of ID through
why those problems are actually a solution.
Dylan, what would you say is the best place to start
for a base developer?
Yeah, I think like using AI to make a project. Before AI, like how
I first got into coding was like building projects. And I think now with AI, you can do it
even more. There are all these tools, we have things like the llms.txt file, MCP server. So I
would definitely like if you're just trying to start out, I would say set aside a small amount
of time and find one of these tools you can use that
works well for you maybe it's literally just starting with chat gpting the full lms.txt file
maybe you want to go as far as using something like cursor v0 which i would recommend but like
getting familiar with those tools will go such a long way and you'll be so surprised of like if you
download cursor put in the lms.txt file
and throw in some crazy idea with the agent mode,
there's like a very good possibility
that you'll get most of the way there
on your first like try or couple.
And so I would just highly recommend
like using all of those tools
and trying to make the most of them.
And it will like get you like to that.
Once you get to that first point
where you have some sort of aha, I think that's when
you will actually want to put in more of that investment.
And so I would just recommend use those tools and really try and push yourself to get to
a moment like that in the shortest amount of time.
Like it may seem a little crazy in the moment, but when you get to that moment, not only
is it going to feel great because you'll be able to build so much, but I think you'll
realize that you'll get there a lot quicker than you thought you could. So this kind of brings me on to my
next question as well, which is, so let's assume that this developer that you're bringing on
already does have an app off-chain in Web2 or something of that sort. How would you convince
them to rebuild it or build it within this ecosystem?
Dylan, I'm just going to ask you since, yeah, yeah.
Sure. Yeah, that's fine.
Well, I think there are a lot of benefits. Like for example, let's say that someone is creating a payments app
or they've never added payments to their app.
There are just so many benefits that you get from building on chain
and building with base, especially if you compare it to a platform like Stripe, which does great
things. But if you're just, if you just want to set up an initial payment, good luck doing the
Stripe comparison versus the base comparison. I think base, you can maybe get that set up in even
like a couple of minutes. And so I think it's like, it's different depending on who you're talking to.
But I think it's figuring out what is the pain point or what are the things that that
person is using, building on, et cetera.
And then figure out how you can like flip the value prop of things building on chain,
whether it's you get the social graph from platforms like Farcaster and base names,
you're more focused on the
payment sector you're more focused on building something consumer that gets out to other people
so i think it's kind of hard to overwhelm someone and give them all the different reasons why
but i would i would figure out what those different things are and i think especially
if it is payments you have a really cool opportunity to get them to just be like
why was i not doing this before? Yeah, yeah.
No, that makes perfect sense.
Patrick, I have another question for you specifically.
So your job is focused more around onboarding developers,
but how do you see onboarding consumers and regular people to base,
and how does that bring more developers for you?
Yeah, like do you
mean like me specifically or?
You specifically, yeah.
Yeah, so I mean this is something I do
like
kind of my day-to-day but
you try not to sound like a lunatic, right?
Because you're like, come on, chain.
They're like, dude, get away from it.
No, but
Yeah, just you're pulling up to them like, yo like dude get away from it um no but um but yeah just be pulling up to them like yo get on right yeah like you want 50 bucks no i don't
want i don't want free money i'm trying to bring you to freedom no um i i think it it varies right
because i have friends who are in the creative camp i have friends who are in like the business side of things.
Right.
I have friends who are in the fitness side.
And like,
so I'll give you an example.
So one of my,
my coaches,
you know,
obviously is a really great coach.
you know,
does CrossFit and all this other stuff.
I'm helping him.
Coach of what?
like CrossFit. Oh, for CrossFit. Okay. Yeah. No worries. And I'm helping him coach of water time oh like crossfit oh for crossfit okay yeah yeah
no worries and um helping him bring on uh helping him bring his build business on chain um through
uh you know doing like token gated um videos streaming and things like that um people like
my mom like I'm like,
yo mom, check out this thing called Moonwell.
You can have your money in there.
She's like, I don't wanna manage anything here.
I'm like, you should try it, right?
Or my brother who recently moved to Austin
and he's thinking about creating content around
his journey of out, you know, kind of like out of college and like growing.
And honestly, I'm going to show him Naomi's sort of like journey and like hopefully we can get this like clipped up and stuff like that. But that that is the perfect thing. Right. And you mentioned, you know, college students.
I think on chain is ripe for uh college students not only
can you build an app really quickly um take some of the learnings that you you've learned in class
build an app and then get distribution but even that 20 bucks that you may earn from farcaster
like it goes a long way in college like on that friday you get that 20 bucks you can go order some
dominoes or something like that. It goes a long way.
No, legit.
Yeah, right?
And you're at one of the most creative times
of your life as well.
Things are flowing.
There's a lot of things happening on campus.
And so if you can post some stuff on Zora
and have people mint it and trade it,
man, your eyes will open up to why uh on chain is the way
and i think that that's like the thing for people is like you got to show them right why why it's
the way you can't just like say like it's about freedom and this on-chain economy you have to
like yo let me let me bring you in you gotta hold your hand and take a minute no it's a really good
point because five years ago like when when i was still in college, if Warpcast existed
and we got to experience it, we'd be like, wait,
not only is it a better version of Twitter,
but we also get paid for casting.
Exactly.
Warpcast has got to be blowing up actually around college campuses
for that reason now.
But if it's not, it's inevitable.
Yeah.
All right. college campuses for that reason now but if it's not you know it's inevitable yeah um all right if there's if anyone want to take that question on feel free but i i think you answered it fairly
well um actually i'll i'll just a couple of random thoughts uh after i was listening to dylan and pat
but uh bridging back to Dylan's point about answering the
why on-chain question, like how do you bring off-chain devs, I do think this is a really
important point because there's been a lot of hemming and hawing in the on-chain marketing
world.
Like, what are we doing?
Have we figured this out yet?
And I think Dylan hit the nail on the head with a big part of the problem is that you
can do literally anything on chain.
So like why on chain has a million different answers to it.
And so for anybody out there who's maybe a builder and they're trying to evangelize for themselves,
it's like one of the most valuable things you can do is seek and discover the people you're trying to reach.
What is it that kind of like turns the light bulb on for them
and creates this burning need where it's like, I have to have that. And that's what you want to
speak to. And so whatever you're doing on chain, if you can find that, you'll be successful in
communicating the why on chain to other people. A good example of this, I think, because we love
talking about many apps right now is like, you can take any app right
now, it doesn't matter how big it is, add mini kit to it. And it's a mini app. And all of a sudden,
you get social distribution that can't be disrupted, you can't be deplatformed, like
Farmville was with Facebook, right? That's not going to happen to you. And you're getting access to these different,
like, evolving creator economies, network economies, like we talked about the importance
of community, like, you, like, avoid the bootstrapping problem. If you have anything
that's social, like, don't try and, like, build your own network effects. It already exists with the social graph from Farcaster.
That's something that like I think most people just don't have any understanding of.
It's like you can build an app with hundreds of thousands of people.
Right. Period. Right.
Hundreds of thousands of users by making it a mini app, having it in the Farcaster feed.
It's incredibly, incredibly
powerful. So I just want to point out kind of those two different things. One, find the unique
value proposition for other people and speak to that specifically, nothing else. Like I love on
chain for all the ethos. People don't want to hear it anymore from me. So find the thing to care
about. And two, like, as far as social goes, avoid the bootstrapping problem.
Most apps these days are going to have some type of network component, even financial.
We're seeing a lot of financial apps bring in social components
and make them more community oriented.
So there's almost always a way that you can bring in the social graph.
And so this is something I challenge people is ask yourself, how can I go grab this building
block of thousands of users in a network graph and bring it into my app in a meaningful way and really create a bunch of distribution off of that?
Yeah, so and then I think to the question about like, bringing folks on chain, like to Pat's question that you asked him is like, there's all these new things that you can do and experiment with that are
honestly just a lot of fun.
Like you open up like your Coinbase wallet and you start playing with
different apps that are out there,
experiencing the different creator things that you can do following along
with things like crypto, the game,
these new social experiments that are happening on chain that are in the open.
Anybody can join basically a digital survivor. That's super cool.
You know, I think by just getting people in the door and experiencing things, seeing how
they can make money off of like, you know, Jesse earlier today, I was talking about how
people coined his posts and he's not doing anything.
He's just posting like he normally was.
Like one of the most exciting moments for me with our caster was like when all of a sudden
I saw my like posts get a big amplification.
And I was like, oh, well, like what's going on here?
And then I was like, oh, it's because somebody built a new client that's surfacing my content in a different way.
And I didn't do anything.
But all of a sudden there's a whole new form of distribution.
So like some of these things that it's really hard to explain to somebody unless they've just like gotten in the door.
So get them in the door as much as you can.
Shoot them a text. Hey, try out Farville, you know, like gotten in the door. So get them in the door as much as you can. Shoot them a text.
Hey, try out Farville, you know, like join crypto the game.
I assume even people who work at Twitter probably have no idea what's going on.
You know what I mean?
Like these people, they're building like the alternative, right?
And like they come to Farcaster and like, whoa, whoa, whoa, like take a step back.
I haven't seen any sort of this mechanism before.
Nothing like it.
You know, so it's really impressive to have an ecosystem like Farcaster exist right now.
Definitely.
Cool.
That's my piece.
No, absolutely incredible.
It's really important, really important stuff.
And yes, super glad you could give your two cents.
So on to our next question.
So let's talk a little bit about safety and OPSEC.
So if there's, let's say, a few key pieces when you're onboarding someone to crypto,
what are the first few things you would tell them to stay safe?
Okay, I'll take this.
I'll precaution.
These are my own personal thoughts.
I think you should approach it as general web safety.
And you may run into some of this stuff more in crypto.
But you want to have a good password manager.
You want your stuff to be saved properly. Look out for things people are doing. For example, a lot of YouTube
videos I see about crypto, you see these responses and it's like, oh, I want help with XYZ. This is
the seed phrase to my Binance wallet. I think you can understand what things look like obvious spam.
Make sure when you're clicking on specific
links, when you're using a bunch of different wallets, be very cognizant of which ones are
linked to public identities like your base name, your Farcaster account, which ones you're trading
in. I think hopefully some of this stuff is also secured by the fact that platforms like
Quende Smart Wallet make it so that you're not writing down a mnemonic and you're saving a passkey and it works across all these platforms.
I would just be very vigilant the same way you are with anything else, but just be especially
cognizant because this is financial and it's going to happen even around your friends.
What if a friend you know gets hacked and they're promoting a token that's a scam?
So just not saying that's always going to happen, but it's just be very diligent and on guard and take precautions
that you would or think you should in general, maybe just to an extra degree.
Yeah, I would add on to a little bit what Dylan said. And by saying like, especially if I'm
talking to someone like super new to crypto, honestly, I would recommend the Coinbase Smart
Wallet, right? You don't need to remember your past keys or your past phrase or anything like
that, your mnemonic, right? You can secure it with your past key. Sorry, with your past key.
There's your fingerprint, your biometrics. There's also a way to recover your account as well,
which is, that's not something you can
traditionally do with with a crypto wallet the second thing is with your coinbase wallet
slash smart wallet we surface some of the you know top apps that are used right and so these are
you know tried and true to apps these these apps have thousands of users daily, you know, just like Moonwell,
Aerodrome, right? I would, you know, kind of stick with those. And also, we have like these safety
features in there that say like, hey, you may be interacting with a bad smart contract,
a bad application. So heed the warnings. I know the narrative is you got to move fast in crypto, but when it comes to security,
move a little bit slower and take your time.
You know, these are your funds
and, you know, treat them up.
Cool.
I'll top it off and I'm going to beat the dead horse here
because I think it's super important
is Coinbase wallet, of course, and I'm going to beat the dead horse here because I think it's super important, is
Coinbase wallet, of course, but the most important thing here is the passkey. Like Coinbase wallet using smart wallet with a passkey. If you would prefer not to use Coinbase wallet,
find a smart wallet with a passkey because passkeys are incredibly robust, recoverable, and secure.
Way more than anything else that's ever existed for online authentication.
Not only is Coinbase SmartWallet recoverable, the passkey is incredibly recoverable.
I spent a lot of time in this space.
I helped write the spec for authenticating passkeys on-chain before there was a pre-compile for it.
This is like a hill I'll die on.
Your pass key stored in iCloud or Google Cloud is the most secure private key storage you'll ever get.
So use it.
Make sure that your pass key is backed up.
But that will keep you incredibly secure.
It's not a honeypot,
like one password. Even if you can store your passkey in one password, because even if somebody
gets your passkey, can't use it without your biometrics. You can't accidentally use your
passkey on an invalid URL because the passkey is tied to the URL. Anyways, I can go on and on.
There's a lot of great articles out there, but past keys are super important. Number two, most important thing is your wallets are the same online as they are in the physical
world. If you're aping into things, go for it. That's great. I still believe slow is fast,
but a hot wallet should be like the wallet you carry to the store or whatever. It's like,
don't have more money in that than you can really afford to lose. If you're seeing a meaningful amount of money in there,
have a more secure place that you're not touching as often to move those funds over. Because it
happens to everybody. The best of us have lost money and things. And so just make sure that
you're managing your risk and storing your meaningful funds in a secure, ideally,
mostly offline place.
On a long enough time frame, every hot wallet gets hacked.
That's for sure.
That's absolutely incredible stuff.
I'll top it off with not your keys, not your coins.
Make sure not to share your keys.
And if you're going to use something like Coinbase Smart wallet yeah make sure you secure your pass key and uh if people do want to go
create a coinbase smart wallet right now uh i believe they go to coinbase.com
wallet i believe but maybe they know yeah wallet wallet.coinbase.com but or however if you go to any like on-chain kit or any app that's using
on-chain kit it's already pre-built so again it's like you create this app you're like hey
check out my app you know you send that to your friend they're like i don't have a wallet well
they can just create one on the fly right there in seconds right Right. So, you know, they don't have to do any of the thinking. We we've tried to make the UX really
smooth for not only creating wallets, but essentially onboarding users.
So, yep.
All right. We have one more question for everyone today and then,
and then we can get out of here. You guys can get your time back,
but I want to just get into a little bit more around AI. Obviously, it's been extremely exciting time. I know Pat
touched a little bit about it earlier and why he's excited about it. But I just want to ask you guys,
what do you see as the most prominent AI tooling on base right now and why and where do you see that heading?
Clarifying question. AI tooling being AI tooling for devs or tools for AIs?
Tools for AI. So it could like something like Clanker or something like any one of the other like AI agent sort of tooling. I guess you could also shell some dev tooling as well.
I can give a really quick answer,
but if it's okay, I'm going to give an answer
for both of them, for developers.
Yeah, yeah, let's do it.
As a product, there's this really cool
tool called Ohara.ai
that's built on base. If you've
used like V0 or Bolt or whatever,
it is essentially like that, except it has things like on-chain kit already built in,
and you can create coins out of your app, which is really cool. Like if we had more time,
the tangent I would go on is I think software as content is something that a base and this
mini app ecosystem is really well positioned for. So Ahara is cool for a bunch of different reasons.
That and the base MCP, I think, are awesome tools for developers.
I think from the actual product perspective,
Clanker as well as like Bankerbot and Deployer
have been some of the really coolest ones.
And just in terms of, you know, the effects that they create
and again, like how things become content in the moment. I think there are a bunch more opportunities, but those are some of the largest ones I've seen.
Patrick, Eric?
I think I love Planker. So, so plus one on that.
I think also virtual is a super cool tool for on-chain agents.
There's been a lot of bugs around that.
And then I'm just going to bring up base MCP again.
I think that this is like an awesome tool for any use case,
any layer of the stack.
And I think that as we see model context protocol,
that's what MCP is, get more
widely adopted. We recently saw OpenAI adopt it. Google's adopted it. Anthropics set the lead with
it and others are kind of following in line. We're going to see a lot of really cool apps being built
with it. It's kind of dual purpose, right? It provides you with all that information you can build with it or you can
just turn your you know whether it's clod from anthropic you can turn that into your wallet if
you want just give it you know access to your wallet and you can just chat with it and it does
everything on chain for you and i think that what's really cool about this is suddenly as the mcp
expands and it's open source so if anybody has a use case they want to contribute to it,
just go contribute to it.
You can do it.
Like, if you build an app and you're like,
oh, I would love it if somebody could interact with my app from an LLM,
just add it to base MCP and I can do it then chatting with my LLM
that already has it installed.
That's going to be another awesome distribution pathway for applications.
So that's, I would say, like, it's relatively new. There was a little
bit of hype about it a couple of weeks ago on like MTP generally on Twitter. I think
that, you know, it's, it's going to maybe cool off, but it's still going to be cooking
in the background. So check that out.
And Pat, I know you answered this question a little bit already, but if there's any last
to this question a little bit already, but if there's any last thoughts.
thoughts.
Y'all haven't seen the composability yet. This stuff excites me. That's my last thought.
Oh, I'm so excited. I'm sorry. I'm sure Mr. Coinbase wallet over there has a lot to say
that he can either. Sorry. That's great. Okay. Well, I won't take up too much more of your time what i do want to say
is uh if you haven't put your base name in the chat uh please do that now if you don't have a
base name yet um go to base.org slash name i believe um some uh or just put the next We own both, I think.
I think it'll redirect base.org.
Oh, you're up.
We do own both.
Yeah.
But the canonical one is name without the S.
I stand corrected.
Ah, I see.
That's where I fucked up.
All right, got it.
So yeah, base.org slash names.
Either works. Get your
base name there. Also, feel
free to DM me. I'm happy to help you get your
base name after this.
Satuette just posted the
link right there, so go grab your base name
and then put it
right here into the chat, and
I'll make sure that we retroactively
give you a little POAP.
And that's everything.
Thank you guys so much for coming.
If you don't have a base ENS yet, feel free to send your address, your ENS,
and then I'll help you get a base name later on.
If not, just use your base name and I'll add that in.
Thanks again, Eric, Pat, and Dylan so much for joining us. This has been
absolutely incredible. You guys are
amazing. Could not have been a better session
and I can't wait to do it again.
Appreciate it. Thanks, Luciano.
Thanks, everybody.
Thanks, everyone. Thanks for having me.
Thank you. Bye, everyone.
And if you still
haven't sent your base name or your ENS,
just DM me and I'll help you.
I'll make sure you get all situated.
Thanks, everyone.
