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a new beginning || ex contributor @Based_Africa || @EverybNeedsBase maxi || just exploring the beauty of code || building || prev founder @useQuiver

[ghost 🌳 @0xdevghost]

@OCHHQ Welcome chief routing for you web dev is a base that even why I still do it it allows you propagate ideas quickly and globally easily imaging trying to use ChatGPT but you had to down it or even go buy or go to place to even use it.

[ghost 🌳 @0xdevghost]

After a year of this found two minutes paper yt and track what you all now know as ai video generation i still feel maybe I should I stuck with ai i still rethink it from time to time and each I feel maybe that is where I should have concentrated on web dev sure help with a job

[Collins @OCHHQ]

Where were you 30 Nov 22. When this tweet was drop ? By sam Altman

Me ; i was writing HTML ✍️ script in a restaurant.

This shaped 🤔 alot

[ghost 🌳 @0xdevghost]

let’s see if Argentina loses

[Jampzey @Jampzey]

gut says england, heart says argentina

today, going with my heart

ps. i have bet against england 3 times and lost all 3 bets, so i might be cursed but

it's not coming home

[jesse.base.eth @jessepollak]

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.

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[ghost 🌳 @0xdevghost]

Nah correction yeah Covid was 2019 so found two minutes paper yt before it hand being into ai since 2021/2022 so not bad

[ghost 🌳 @0xdevghost]

* won’t fully say fresh we had COVID so guess a 1 year+ out

[ghost 🌳 @0xdevghost]

@craneoh4 @OCHHQ You really learnt it

[ghost 🌳 @0xdevghost]

but I still see it I might pivot back cause it seems inevitable but for now would explore this area of my current focus in-depth before that.

[ghost 🌳 @0xdevghost]

to differential calculus and statistics(this is used in knn neighours algorithms and also decision trees) that era is still nice and each day i see new things in ai and still bring the joy of this field back such as miro fish and other ai applications in robotics

[ghost 🌳 @0xdevghost]

but still feel maybe I should just YOLO’d ai instead of pivoting was fresh out of senior secondary when I built an ML library(why learning only going through the maths was boring) and guess maybe just maybe I might pivot back fully the maths is pretty cool from linear algebra t.

[Heavy Pulp @heavypulp]

Gotta repost again because it’s just so good.

[Greegman @Greegman]

Personally, I'll rely primarily on the payment provider’s webhooks for real-time status updates (most modern gateways like Stripe, Paystack, Flutterwave etc. support them reliably).

I'm sure of paystack cause I use it mostly...

When a transaction starts, generate a unique idempotency key and immediately record it as "initiated" in your DB with that key.

If the network drops or no webhook arrives within a timeout (e.g. 30–60 seconds), push the transaction reference + idempotency key into a delayed/retry queue.

A background worker consumes the queue, calls the provider’s status endpoint, and uses the idempotency key to guarantee the business logic (e.g. crediting wallet, sending order confirmation) runs at most once, even if the worker crashes and retries.

[ghost 🌳 @0xdevghost]

testing with more posts

[ghost 🌳 @0xdevghost]

told claude to code a function for me for something this thing went to overcomplicated it something of around 18-20 lines of code it made it 36 lines.

[Akintola Steve @Akintola_steve]

People fail to understand the brilliance it takes to build a brilliant solution.

So if you see one give accolades to them.

Most times It takes months sometimes even years of research, trying to understand the target audience ( users ) intent / feel of what’s been built before putting it out there to the community and before it gets accepted.

One thing I noticed is that there are lots of great builders in Nigerian tech space.

A lot !

God bless you all.

[Diridol_ @Diridol__]

Por cierto, las prótesis fueron inventadas por el cirujano francés Ambroise Paré, cristiano hasta la médula y cuya frase más célebre es:

“Yo lo vendé, Dios lo curó".

[ghost 🌳 @0xdevghost]

testing posts

[ghost 🌳 @0xdevghost]

testing things

[kokocodes.base.eth 🌳 @kokocodes]

GM..

Gotta Lock in 🔒