Matt Pilsbury // auditor.base.eth

AI & Security @jito | Ex-Security @Coinbase @Base | Previously Founder/CEO @SourceHatLabs

[Solana @solana]

BREAKING: The SEC issues a temporary, conditional exemption allowing onchain trading of tokenized US stocks.

[Matt Pilsbury // auditor.base.eth @Analytic_ETH]

@davidhooperr @eldaeonuap This is awesome!

[Rebecca Rettig @RebeccaRettig1]

1/ Today, @m_mosier_ @malekanoms & I are sharing a new paper: "The Compatibility of Financial Integrity With Permissionless Networks". Institutions say BSA & sanctions laws prevent use of these networks. We debunk this & provide a path forward. 🧵 https://t.co/8KAQH6UyDV

[buffalu @buffalu__]

On JTX, your size is not size

[Immunefi @immunefi]

The @base Azul Audit Competition is live! ⚡️

A $250,000 scaling reward pool is up for grabs for finding bugs in the Base Azul, Base's first independent upgrade.

📅 Ends May 4, 2026
💰 Scaling reward pool of $250,000
⌨️ Language: Solidity & Rust
✅ KYC required

Get hunting: https://t.co/CxVYnD8Twr

[Coinbase Support @CoinbaseSupport]

Introducing Frosty, our AI-powered smart contract auditing tool that outperformed every other tool we evaluated. It runs in ~1-2 hours, can be 100x cheaper than a manual audit, and is now part of every smart contract review at Coinbase. Here's how we built it: https://t.co/rrjAQifHIC

[Base Build @buildonbase]

Coinbase is building AI tools to audit smart contracts

• Frosty finds more critical bugs than any tool tested
• Runs take 1-2 hours; can be 100x cheaper than manual audits
• It's still in testing and not yet a replacement for human reviews

Learn more in our engineering blog:

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

@CoinbaseSupport is Frosty an AI snowman?

[Coinbase Wallet @CoinbaseWallet]

Yo!

Base App just got a big update.

Your new trading and discovery experience is live.

[lincoln.base.eth @MurrLincoln]

Introducing Trading Arena – the easiest way to deploy an AI trading agent.

Write a strategy in plain English. Pick a model. Set risk limits. Watch it trade 24/7 and compete on a leaderboard.

tradingarena[dot]xyz

[jesse.base.eth @jessepollak]

we made a based dashboard for builders

grow your app, get rewarded

https://t.co/uxliqLYfSI

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Operating in stealth mode is almost always a mistake.

Talk publicly about what you're building. You’ll build momentum, get real feedback, and someone will reach out with the other half of your idea you didn’t realize you were missing.

[wilson.base.eth @WilsonCusack]

A new, unified stack for Base Chain

Excited to share that we are evolving our technical roadmap, consisting of our own spec, code, and infra to accelerate the foundation of Base. This shift gives us the autonomy to ship protocol improvements more frequently and focus our resources on scaling to 1 gigagas/s.

What this means for builders:

- Higher Velocity: Targeting 6 hardforks per year to get you new features and fixes faster.
- Massive Scale: Targeting 1 gigagas/s to support high-throughput apps without congestion.
- Extreme Reliability: Targeting 99.99% non-empty blocks and predictable, low fees.
- Simpler Design: A maximally simple spec that’s easier to audit and build on.

Along with this, we will take a more active role in managing our own upgrade schedule and stack: allowing us to build what the ecosystem needs, at the speed it needs, while remaining deeply aligned with Ethereum.

Read the full technical breakdown here: https://t.co/5gVnhgh2Q5

[Base Build @buildonbase]

Base Verify helps apps on Base confirm that users are real people, not bots

Users log in with 3rd party accounts (X, Instagram, TikTok, Coinbase) to prove themselves, without sharing personal data with apps.

200k+ verifications completed and growing. Learn more in our blog 🧵

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

Every PM in crypto waiting for the final form of the CLARITY Act to know which roadmap to ship (or just get a job as an AI data labeler).

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

We’re bringing an entire country onchain.

Bermuda is building the world’s first fully onchain national economy, with support from Coinbase and @Circle.

[Dan Guido @dguido]

For the blockchain folks, new Slither today, fully upgraded for faster, AI-enabled development. Expect more frequent releases of Slither from now on. https://t.co/6nneUb3ZS8
https://t.co/64A4R7RqiK
https://t.co/ndK6miTFRq

[wilson.base.eth @WilsonCusack]

Commerce Payments Protocol crossed a million dollars in payments!

Two years ago, it would have seemed crazy to imagine Shopify would have auth and capture on Base built into their product.

We've come a long way, and we're still ramping and dialing in the experience!

[jesse.base.eth @jessepollak]

Tl;dr: We’re focusing the Base app to be trading-first to drive demand and distribution for every asset and to be the best app for whatever you do in the onchain economy.

Since announcing the Base app in July, hundreds of thousands of you have used the app to create, trade, save, spend, and build. Seeing the adoption has been incredible. We've also heard clear feedback about what's landing and isn't. Three themes stand out:

- The app felt overly focused on social. It came across as too close to web2, and didn’t show support for the full breadth of assets that people want to trade.
- Everyone wants more high quality assets. In general there is a desire to engage with and trade high quality assets. This is the most important opportunity as we bring capital markets onchain.
- The feed needs to surface everything: Having a feed of what's happening onchain is a good idea, but it needs to surface apps, stocks, predictions, and every asset class (with social tokens are just one of many).

In a world where everything is tokenized and tradeable, the single most valuable thing we can do is drive demand and distribution to everyone. That’s exactly what the Base app is going to do. We’re going to make the Base app the best place to trade and use every asset.

Concretely this means:

1. We’re going to build for trading first. Having trading as our primary focus will help us bring demand and capital for all rapidly growing asset classes in the economy.
2. We’re going to bring more high quality assets onchain. To best serve the trading use case, we’re going to make it so everything is tradable in the app — protocols, apps, stocks, predictions, memes, and yes creators too.
We’re going to lean into a finance-first UX. We be
3. We’re going to lean into a finance-first UX. We believe it makes more sense to layer social features on top of finance, than the other way around. This means we'll continue to experiment with features like copy-trading, feed-trading, and leaderboards.

This is going to be hugely additive to the Base economy because it's going to drive more capital and users to every asset and app.

Base app will be the best self-custodial wallet to trade and use every asset, globally accessible, with fast, simple onboarding for everyone, everywhere. Base chain will continue to be the best chain to build anything, now supercharged with even more distribution.

We’re building this together, in the open, and seeing how people use the app keeps teaching us what matters most. Thank you for the continued feedback.

Stay based.

[boney @0xBoneyBoi]

Like using Claude Code? Love using the LSP plugins to make it go vrooom? Sad there isn't a Solidity LSP plugin?

Introducing the solidity-lsp-plugin, powered by @juanfranblanco's LSP under the hood 🐐

/plugin install your way to a lower API bill