three learnings from me in 2025:
1. sometimes i can be too far in the future. coming into the year, I wanted to take a shot to bring more people onchain. and I saw the creator economy as a 100x opportunity to do exactly that. but in leaning all the way into creators with the base app, i jumped too far ahead. by overfocusing on this emerging segment, i think we overshadowed the core of builders and traders. i continue to believe deeply in bringing the creator economy onchain and the importance of non-financial use cases ... but i think the reality is that it’s going to take years to bring everyone onchain and we need to build there incrementally. and that means making the base app work really well for traders and builders first, and earning the right to expand the aperture. in parallel, the ecosystem will continue to cook on creators, social, and other non-financial use cases and we'll drive distribution to them.
2. trading is the chain’s biggest area for growth. base has established itself as the best place for builders — but one of the biggest opportunities is that our liquidity and trading economy is still maturing. as a builder platform, issuing new assets and enabling trading of them are the thing with the most product market fit and it's clear there's so much more growth we can drive there. i think some of this is downstream of the fact that i've never been a professional trader, so i've had less natural empathy for both traders themselves and what makes a great trading platform. but i'm learning fast and we're already seeing the positive results of this focus. we are going to make base the most trusted, liquid, powerful trading economy in the world. tons more upside ahead.
3. growing the decentralized bench of base leaders and the tools they have to lift up the ecosystem is absolutely critical. base started inside coinbase and we've been gradually decentralizing since day 1. in 2025, we made big strides like achieving stage 1 and decentralizing our security council, but we have a ton more work to do. and one of the biggest opportunities is continuing to decentralize culturally. the more voices and capital allocators we have that are rowing in the same direction — growing the base economy — the faster and better we will all grow together. this means giving people a platform (with distribution + capital) and the tools to measure and scale their impact. success means that what the base core team does matters less and what empowered individuals and teams do matters more. this is a major priority for me personally — and if you're reading this, I need your help making it happen. if raise your hand, lift up other builders, and deploy capital, i will do everything i can to help you win.
we'll be sharing more on the base mission, vision, and strategy next week and i thought this would be a helpful backdrop. one of my favorite values of coinbase’s has always been continuous learning. and 2025 was a year filled with big learnings for me — and i’m fired up to apply them as we grow base in 2026 and beyond.
open to more feedback and ideas. day one.
📰 @base Daily Recap
What happened on @base last 24 hours:
■ @coinbase emphasized giving agents a wallet with the agentic wallets introduction on base
■ @jessepollak shared three learnings from 2025 on future focus, trading growth, and decentralization
■ @jessepollak praised seamless apple pay onramping for embedded wallets
■ @base highlighted the premium trading experience from @tradeontoday
■ @AerodromeFi reported ~50% of $AERO supply is locked for 3.7 years avg with 15k+ holders
■ @AerodromeFi highlighted slipstream lp rewards with aprs up to ~1,983% on select pools
■ @AerodromeFi announced autopilot for auto voting, lp rebalancing, and compounding
■ @PancakeSwap highlighted 917% apr on the river-usdt pool with cake incentives
■ @carv_official explained their native zk secure enclave for ai agent privacy
■ @0xDeployer updated the bankrbot token launcher with decaying fees and adjusted supply curves
■ @xmaquina hosted a dao pitch livestream for robotics investment
■ @foresightnow updated social-first prediction market features
■ @pixotchi announced live leaderboards for their mini app
■ @MoonPayCommerce Enabled seamless stablecoin payments on Base for BOLTS purchases with Bubblemaps integration.
■ @CoinbaseDev launched agentic wallets for autonomous ai agents to hold funds and trade
■ @0xfluid made their platform agent-ready for lending and borrowing transactions
■ @clawdmint launched agents with bootstrapping liquidity and tight spreads
■ @tradeontoday introduced a premium social-first trading experience coming soon
■ @royaltiz_off Officially live on Base for celebrity trading platform with first superstar launch incoming.
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