wally 🛡️

student of life | strategy & ops at Coinbase

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Coinbase is testing AI agents that show up in slack/email at work, just like any human teammate. To start we're shipping two which are modeled after legendary former Coinbase employees, @FEhrsam and @balajis. (Who brutally frame mogged who in this matchup?)

Soon, it will be easy for any employee to spin up a new agent for themselves or their team. I suspect we will have more agents than human employees at some point soon.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Coinbase System, updated.

→ Stocks
→ Prediction markets
→ Millions of DEX assets

And a whole lot more.
The future of finance is on Coinbase.

[wally 🛡️ @WallyEstenson]

"As you start to walk on the way, the way appears."

Action is key. Just get started - most people don’t.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Coinbase Wallet users can send USDC on Base instantly—without fees.

And now you can earn rewards, too.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship rocket booster caught by tower

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Launching and returning the world's most powerful rocket

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship stacked for Flight 5 and ready for launch, pending regulatory approval

[Aerodrome @AerodromeFi]

EURC Advantage €✈️

Onchain currency swaps can deliver better execution than TradFi. Powered by @circle, Aerodrome, and @base, users can instantly swap USDC and EURC with virtually 0 slippage.

A 25,000 USDC swap returns 1.5% more EURC than TradFi, on average.

[wally 🛡️ @WallyEstenson]

so clean

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Raptor 3 (sea level variant)

Thrust: 280tf
Specific impulse: 350s
Engine mass: 1525kg
Engine + vehicle-side commodities and hardware mass : 1720kg

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

⏪️ Accept that it will always be this way.
⏩️ Build something better.
#UpdateTheSystem

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, powered by 33 Raptor engines, lifting off from Starbase

[Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper]

Watch @sama build a custom ChatGPT using private knowledge—and share it publicly in about 3 minutes

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, his 3rd time on the podcast, but this time we talked in the Metaverse as photorealistic avatars. This was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. It really felt like we were talking in-person, but we were miles apart 🤯 It's hard to put into words how awesome this was for someone like me who values the intimacy of in-person conversation. It gave me a glimpse of an exciting future with many new possibilities and fascinating questions about the nature of reality and human connection ❤

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:52 - Metaverse
15:27 - Quest 3
30:16 - Nature of reality
34:54 - AI in the Metaverse
51:51 - Large language models
57:49 - Future of humanity

[wally 🛡️ @WallyEstenson]

@LynAldenContact Looking forward to reading it! When will the Kindle version be released?

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

The next step for crypto is to make payments instant and free globally.

This will take lots of work from all of us, Coinbase included, getting layer 2's integrated, better on-ramps, simpler UX/onboarding, etc.

A magic threshold would be getting the average payment under 1 cent and confirmed in under 1 second. I think we'd see orders of magnitude more payments move to crypto if we can achieve that.

Today, crypto has the *potential* to improve global payments infrastructure, but it hasn't yet delivered on that promise as we're largely still stuck on layer 1. Payments are like water, they flow to the path of least resistance.

[wally 🛡️ @WallyEstenson]

@LukeGromen @ces921 "Global liquid fuels consumption in our forecast increases by 1.8M barrels per day (b/d) in 2023 and by 1.6M b/d in 2024....production will increase by 1.2M b/d in 2023...[and] 1.5M b/d in 2024" - EIA July report
https://t.co/lJCBsH9kHP

[wally 🛡️ @WallyEstenson]

@LukeGromen @ces921 The EIA's July report shows expected increases in both supply and demand in 2023 and 2024. In both years, they expect demand to outstrip supply.

Is this what you're referencing or do you think they are wrong about supply?

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

The numbers don't lie.