Cody Blanchard

Crypto Degen, @Base enthusiasts. creator.

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

I got $100 for a new low MC coin what’s the play?

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

Whose gonna carry the boats? (On base)
$LFI $DRB $Bnkr?

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

@MLeeJr @JackDishman Still waiting on that job offer 😝 (unpaid) ofc, I’m thinking my title should be Cody Blanchard, Director of Looking Important? Lead Custodian of Digital Chaos?

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

Love seeing all the LienFi updates and all the moving parts, but I’m still curious how Lienfi will integrate its coin into the actual business since purchasing Liens currently is only done through USDC? Or will they always be separate entities? @MLeeJr @JackDishman ? Or should I just shut the fuck up and HODL and not worry about it?

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

@TheCryptoKazi Clearly @MLeeJr and @0xDeployer

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

Ok Jack we see you

[dish @JackDishman]

first feature I needed to see on @lienfiapp is a zillow-style interactive map & street view of available properties

took their MVP of ~7 repos and made it a turborepo and now doing some cleanup / migrations

learning about tax liens and pushing heavily to prod, stay tuned

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

@MLeeJr @lienfiapp @JackDishman Oh so you give this handsome completely qualified man a job? But when I ask nothing.. wack

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

Is this right because how is Bnkr only 80k on robinhood? That’s gotta be a buy right?

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

@zangoalpha 😯 now that’s what I’m talking bout

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

@jessepollak @MLeeJr goated @0xDeployer

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

@bankrbot And what’s that worth @bankrbot ?

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

@bankrbot did I get any $bnkr rewards?

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

Why’s everyone hating on @jessepollak ? My guy had a vision and it didn’t work out, we’ve all been there I didn’t like the direction base was going but I always saw the effort on his part.

[oxb.base.eth @Oxxbid]

gm

if you churned from @baseapp, what made you leave?

what’s the biggest thing we’re missing?

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

Base doesn’t make it without $Bnkr lets be honest

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

We’ve all been asking for accountability from the base team, here it is I think this can take us to new heights.

[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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[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

@MrDegenWolf @lienfiapp I still think @MLeeJr should give me a job, I have zero skills and I’m not very intelligent I think we can make it work.

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

Everyone getting rugged on robinhood and coming home to base? $Bnkr $DRB $LFI

[Cody Blanchard @CodyLovesCrypto]

$Bnkr coming back this week?

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$LienFi season?