few weeks ago, I shared how miniapps can change the world at @BlockchainatYU we cloned a @zora style Instagram together using @baseapp powerful MiniKit. now teaming up with @Ewhachain for an upgraded session: building with the @MintClubPro SDK. going live in a few hours — wish me luck @buildonbase✌️ 🧵

Just wrapped up Malaysia Blockchain Week @MalaysiaBCW with @Nibel_eth. Another week of meeting incredible builders across APAC. Lots of new partnerships. Lots of high-quality projects building on @base. Lots of content coming soon. We’ve been going back-to-back after Money Frontier in Hong Kong, but we’re just getting started. Next week: Circuit Residency by @newcampushq in Singapore 🟦

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

Celebrating Based Builders in APAC: Part 3 Meet @tonymfer from Korea, the builder behind @beeponbase, bringing paid attention onchain, built on @base. Some based facts about Tony: 🟦 Winner of the Base Agent Hackathon #1 Korea with TradeFish 🟦 Helped organize Base Camp 2025 🟦 Base Founders Residency Batch 001 🟦 Top 120 team in Base Batches 003 Show Tony some love ❤️ Which APAC Based Builder should we feature next? Drop your suggestions below 👇

We're looking to feature more based builders in APAC Flood my dms pls

New in-progress skill: /loop-me Interviews you about your work and finds opportunities for delegating your day-to-day work to AI

Built a seller-side paid agent skill for Solana AI Kit + x402. Most examples show agents paying for access. This one lets builders charge agents safely: 402 challenge → proof verification → bounded access → receipt No custody. No auto-signing. No hidden tx details. github.com/tonymfer/solana-p…

thank you @baseapac @ns for hosting us at base founder residency 01. In the last 30 days I got the chance to build my third startup @sanfdn (base x402 enabled) and launch a free OSS project @officialbunnyos (build on base mcp). glad to be based in base 😎

the hackathon is over. now what? most builders stop here. the ones who win long-term know exactly what comes next, and move while the momentum is still live. here's the cheat sheet on how to keep going👇 accelerators with open applications right now: •⁠ ⁠⁠@alliance - $500K, <$0.01 SAFE. early application deadline May 27 (today!) •⁠ ⁠⁠@incubator (@solanalabs) - NYC, 3 months. deadline June 5 •⁠ ⁠⁠@a16zcrypto CSX - $500K, <$0.01 SAFE. rolling •⁠ ⁠⁠@MonkeFoundry by @MonkeDAO - open now •⁠ ⁠⁠@colosseum eternal - open now •⁠ ⁠⁠@ycombinator - open now @SuperteamBlack - invite-only, $250K+ raised. if you're ready for this, you know. grants with money on the table: •⁠ ⁠⁠@superteam - up to $10K, no equity •⁠ ⁠⁠@solana Grants Program - varies, ecosystem-wide •⁠ ⁠⁠@Kalshi - $2M pool, co-sponsored by Solana •⁠ ⁠⁠@chainlink Build - up to $100K, mentorship included •⁠ ⁠⁠@Circle - $USDC developer grants •⁠ ⁠⁠@wormhole xGrant - cross-chain builders •⁠ ⁠⁠@solanamobile - mobile builder grants •⁠ ⁠⁠@getblockio - RPC grant up to $10K credits education if you're still building your foundation: •⁠ ⁠⁠@SolanaFndn Solana Summer School - 5 weeks, DevRel supported •⁠ ⁠⁠@encodeclub Developer Bootcamp - 6 weeks, self-paced •⁠ ⁠⁠@SolanaFndn Developer Training - 3 live sessions •⁠ ⁠⁠@superteam local chapters - worldwide, including @SuperteamMY right here the honest truth about accelerator applications: most get rejected not because the product is bad. because the founder didn't know what the accelerator was actually looking for. @JosipVolarevic2 has been through it - Alliance graduate, two-time @colosseum winner, mentor to teams that raised over $7M combined. he's running a session next Tuesday June 2, 2pm MYT to walk through exactly this. •⁠ which accelerators are worth applying to right now •⁠ what kills most applications before they're even read, and •⁠ how to position coming out of a hackathon. co-hosted with @SuperteamSG @SuperteamINDO @SuperteamAU RSVP in 🧵

joined the first @base Founders Residency in May been locked in ever since. huge shoutout to @nibel_eth, @donofbase, and the @baseapac team. trusted attention, finally. next @beeponbase update incoming 🫡

> filter: traders_tired_of_solo_agents > match: probably_you your bot lost money last night. ask the swarm why. waitlist open · early access for all. ▸ tradefish.xyz

another day, another @SuperteamMY @solana Network State cohort project launching! @tradefishfun turns isolated trading agents into a shared swarm intelligence. so anyone can ask the swarm a market question; builders plug in specialized agents that answer with tracked market positions settled against real price data. good signals earn reputation, rewards, and more flow. great job @tonymfer @0xG3orge @undefined_mfer

Man, we’ve got some seriously DOPE founders building really HIGH-QUALITY projects in the first @base Founders Residency at @ns. Everyone’s locked in. Heads down. Absolutely cooking. Here's what they're building on @base: @sanfdn by @adamwebthree: World-state intelligence for AI agents for API, MCP & x402. @LEDiG_Tech by @gozie606: Liquidity & hedging infrastructure for institutional stablecoin-fiat flows. @beeponbase by @tonymfer Signal layer making sure valuable signals reach the right people, without spam. @zeus_exchange by @0xG3orge Onchain perpetuals with real revenue sharing and fully onchain execution. @Raflux_io by @Riozx_22 Onchain raffle marketplace for TCG collectors, crypto & more.

Just joined the @fdnusd Compute Yield waitlist. Met the builders, including @david_in_web3, and saw firsthand how locked in they are at @ns. Super stoked to be early and excited for what’s coming! Join here: demo.fdnusd.com/share/tonymf…

new waitlist alert! @fdn_labs, a GPU-backed data centre financing project, from our @SuperteamMY build station cohort, just launched their waitlist! how it works: ⬩deposit stables → auto-allocated across verified AI infrastructure debt constituents ⬩hold an appreciating vault token backed by real interest, and leases great job @david_in_web3, @vivekpal0x, and @eugenesfi! can't wait for the full release. keep shipping🫡

01110011 01110111 01100001 01110010 01101101 soon. tradefish.fun

Mint is Now Live 🔗opensea.io/collection/abnorm…

Solana Network State Spring (Network School Track) — $10,000 prize pool 🥇 1st — 4,500 USDC @OmegaXhealth by @dr_sabijan Onchain Health Insurance on Solana 🥈 2nd — 2,500 USDC @BetterWalletApp by @DsouzaJovian Hardware Wallet on Solana 🥉 3rd — 1,200 USDC @JustSparkIdeas by @Mathis_btc Idea Launchpad on Solana 🏫 Honorable Mentions — 600 USDC + Mac Mini M4 each ✨@fdn_labs by @vivekpal0x, @eugenesfi & @david_in_web3 — AI Infrastructure Index on Solana ✨@tradefishfun by @tonymfer & @Rus_Khairullin — Shared Trading Intelligence on Solana ✨@Dappitdotio by @WhaleCoinTalk — AI dApp Builder on Solana