🟦 FOUNDERS FRIDAY 02
AI is accelerating fast & Base is leading as the home of AI.
This week we spotlight top builders from Virtuals, the OG & largest agentic society, to share insights into what's next 👀
• @DonJohnsonSays from @virtuals_io
• @DoctorInGaming from @shadowcleague
• @leighcronian from @cybercentry
• Ryan from @717CapitalAI
• @vadcrypto from @exylos_ai
🗓 Friday, June 12 at 15:00 UTC
🎤 Hosted by: @BaseHubHB
Let’s set your reminder & join us today👇
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This is our space series every Friday for founders & builders on Base. Stay tuned for more!
🎮 Gaming Night #18
🚨 This Thursday, June 11 at 3PM UTC 🚨
We’re kicking off the #18 community call to explore What’s Next for Gaming on Base 🟦 with top builders from @BasedGamesFun and @pixotchi
Hosted by: @GamingOnBase
Thanks our sponsors: @BaseHubHB@basebro_@Uptopia_xyz for helping us make this happen 💙
🔔 Set a reminder now: https://t.co/r097EDJ8tr
AI of the Week: $WAKE @WakeOnBase
WAKE is a tiered, token-gated intelligence terminal on Base.
This week WAKE Terminal went live inside @baseapp with full ecosystem access and no token gating for June.
Six tools:
1. DEX Radar: live feed of new DexScreener-paid launches with price, liquidity, volume and market cap
2. Pulse Check: convergence scanner scoring tokens 0-100 across multiple signals
3. Traction: live momentum metrics like holder velocity and volume acceleration
4. Token Analysis: structured scoring on new launches
5. Skeptic: risk report for any contract address
6. Exit Detector: real-time alerts for distribution events
The team shipped ecosystem hubs with @bankrbot and @aeonframework.
WAKE is building real market intelligence on Base.
Robotics Spotlight: Pemba by @pabloberlangab
A humanoid just climbed to the closest point on Earth to the Sun.
Pemba reached Mt. Chimborazo’s summit at 20,312 ft, becoming the first humanoid to climb past 20,000 ft.
The climb generated real-world data across:
> locomotion
> thermal performance
> energy systems
> extreme-altitude movement
Pemba will work with @eastworlds_io as a technical partner to push humanoid robotics into extreme real-world environments.
The mission is focused on robots that can operate where humans face cost, safety, or terrain limits.
Some early traction:
> 8,000+ people tuned in live within 24 hours
> fees routed toward indigenous mountaineering communities in Ecuador, Hawaii, and Nepal
> Mauna Kea is next
> Everest after that
Pablo is the CEO of Geologic Dome, a field infrastructure and robotics company that has worked with NASA.
Every summit creates proprietary robotics data that no lab can replicate.
Pemba is turning extreme-environment robotics into an onchain movement.
In our conference submission, we evaluate AXIS as a growable data engine for robot manipulation through three questions:
1. Does AXIS pretraining improve π0.5 on downstream LIBERO-Plus robustness tasks, beyond a matched-volume baseline?
2. Does the gain scale with AXIS data volume, from 25% to 50% to 100% of data volume?
3. Which perturbation axes benefit the most, and do they match the diversity targeted by our augmentation pipeline?
Here, “AXIS” refers to our growable manipulation dataset snapshot built around a Franka Research 3 robot: 207 tabletop tasks across 7 scene categories, 50k+ human demonstrations, and 60k+ task/scene variants produced through cleaning and semantic-preserving augmentation.
Findings below 🧵
Top launches on @base this week
@AskVenice - launched Built in Venice, a directory for apps, agents, SDKs, and experiments built with Venice inference.
@AskSurplus - upgraded its inference marketplace with better model discovery, pricing visibility, and order-fill simulation.
@AIWayfinder - launched Paths, letting agents publish and use trading strategies, scripts, and execution plugins.
@trynullsec - launched Nullsec S1, a security LLM for auditing AI-generated apps, agents, MCP tools, and Web3 flows.
@0xclawlens - launched ClawCash CLI Skills, giving agents smoother credit and payment execution. Powered by @Wach_AI.
@WakeOnBase - shipped the @bankrbot Ecosystem Hub Dashboard inside the Base Intelligence Terminal.
@1clawAI - became a @bankrbot Skill for HSM-backed secrets and TEE transaction signing.
@H1DR4_agent - launched Skynet Mode for structured OSINT profiles from wallets, usernames, emails, phones, and addresses.
@blueagent_ - introduced Blue Hub, a multi-agent tool marketplace for builder research, audits, scans, and x402 services.
@teaprotocol - went live through Aerodrome Ignition, bringing open-source reward infra into Base liquidity markets.
@playminiapp - launched SPORTS CLUB Beta, an AI-first daily fantasy sports product.
@sportfun - launched SDF free-to-play for WC26, with up to $30K in prizes.
@axisrobotics - launched SN/04 with @BitRobotNetwork for long-horizon teleop tasks and Physical AI training data.
📄 @base weekly recap
what happened on base this week
NEWS
■ @coinbase is now live in India with direct INR rails.
■ coinbase is powering stablecoin acceptance for @Checkout’s 1,000+ merchant network across nearly 50 countries.
■ coinbase teased a system update for June 16 at 3PM ET.
■ @cbventures backed @Ethena through an open market ENA purchase.
■ base shared Mastercard’s stablecoin settlement expansion, with Base included in its onchain payment push.
■ base is cruising at 550 TPS, with 5K TPS bursts possible post-Azul.
■ base shared @ModernTreasury support for USDC payments, reconciliation, and compliance.
■ @baseapp affiliate program is now live.
■ @wormhole made @Ripple’s RLUSD multichain through Native Token Transfers, including base.
ROBOTICS
■ @shadowcleague welcomed @rozikrypto as official ambassador for Shadow Combat League.
■ @axisrobotics launched new robotic data tasks focused on long-horizon, bimanual, and cross-embodiment training.
AI
■ @virtuals_io integrated @AskVenice with up to $400K in private inference credits for agent builders.
■ Virtuals is migrating its cross-chain stack from LayerZero to @chainlink CCIP.
■ @AskVenice launched Built in Venice for community-built SDKs, agents, dashboards, and onchain experiments.
■ @AskSurplus revamped Model Marketplace UI with better metrics, search, and order-fill simulation.
■ @trynullsec launched Nullsec S1, the open-source security LLM that ranked #1 by F1 on its 111-case benchmark.
■ @PRXVTai integrated ERC-8183 with its Privacy Hook for private agent job requests and deliverables.
■ @0xclawlens launched ClawCash CLI Skills for smoother agent credit execution. Powered by @Wach_AI.
■ @WakeOnBase shipped the @bankrbot Ecosystem Hub Dashboard.
■ @Root_Edge added an in-app Reddit-style forum to rootAI.
■ @AIWayfinder launched Paths, a plugin marketplace for onchain agents.
■ @smolekoma integrated @AskVenice across Tachi Studio chat, agents, and visual node canvas.
■ @H1DR4_agent launched Skynet Mode for structured intelligence profiles.
■ @Veildotcash launched Veil MCP 0.2.0 for private x402 payments from shielded USDC pools.
ECOSYSTEM
■ @AerodromeFi crossed $300B in ETH trading volume.
■ @blocktronicsxyz Stack V1 is live with its forensics suite and wallet-based access.
■ @playminiapp launched SPORTS CLUB Beta for AI-first daily fantasy sports.
■ @useboardwalk is live with the Boardwalk Standard for transparent token economy launches.
■ @trylimitless launched User-Generated Markets, letting users create prediction markets and earn fee share.
■ @RemixGG_ launched Season 1 with $30,000 in prizes.
■ @stambouli_o1 shared the @o1_exchange whitepaper, with TGE countdown set for June 17.
■ @sportfun launched SDF free-to-play for WC26 with up to $30K in prizes.
■ @GrailCo gtokens are trending, fungible tokens backed by real-world collectibles.
■ @teaprotocol went live through Aerodrome Ignition with $TEA.
■ @predofficial opened PRED after $5M+ private beta volume, with $200K in FIFA World Cup prizes.