Incredibly based post from the Eggman @EoghanH.
In case you didn't know, Eggman is a crypto OG and was a core dev on @dogecoin. In other words, his work in the early days helped birth the whole meme coin sector. He is an OG that believes in fairness and transparency in any crypto project, and that is why he was tapped to help w/ the launch of @0x52BasedPepe. The Based Pepe team set the standard for fair launches on @base and Eggman deserves a tip of the hat for helping make that happen (even though he would never ask for any credit).
There are reasons I continue to pound the table for Based Pepe over 2 yrs later. I've never known another team / community like them in all my years in crypto. They are the very rare exception to the extractive-rule.
Sadly I agree that builders make it on Base in spite of Base. Sure would be nice to see @cobie@jessepollak@brian_armstrong@coinbase convert some of the corporate rhetoric into actual actions of support for the teams / people who continue to grind legitimately on @base since the platform launched. But even if they don't I know legit projects like @0x52BasedPepe and @imgn_ai will continue to push forward in spite of them.
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gotdamn, eggman spitting straight fax, woke up today and chose violence
he's right tho, everything he says is true, and it's been fukd to see leadership at @base fumbling their honest hard-working builders while endorsing outright extractors 💔
@cobie u seeing dis shid? 🤌
no, they show up for builders on their equity sheet that they can extract from retail with.
See: Zora content coins shoved down everyone’s throat despite clanker and bankr already existing
See: Venice shilled non-stop when they’re just a middle-man hop for openrouter and phala (with an enormous price mark-up)
See: Farcaster abandoned when it didn’t embrace content coins, following a failed coup by Base App
See: Jesse publicly buying Soulja Boy’s rugpull and endorsing it, despite the fact he just rugged again for the 11th time in a row
See: Jesse launching and promoting his own rugpull, which was sniped and rugged on launch
See: Brian engaging positively with a crack addict launching his personal rugpull, which predictably rugpulled as normal
See: The array of utter dogshit memecoins that got listed on coinbase despite having massively bundled and sniped supplies, which went straight to zero as soon as exit liquidity became available for them - while genuine runners like @0x52BasedPepe were ignored
Builders make it on Base in SPITE of Base. And it’s been a very long time since anyone outside of the insider cabal has even bothered even launching anything on Base due to that.
@0x52BasedPepe@EoghanH Organic growth built by a based community and trustworthy team. It’s hard to find but base:0x52b492a33e447cdb854c7fc19f1e57e8bfa1777d has it.
and this is the approach that earned my deep respect, keeping it real for the community and continuing to build, not just for the accolades and recognition but sometimes, in spite of it
I'm not gonna hold my breath and hope @cobie@base fixes everything, the rot seems to run deep and the pattern of behaviour has become difficult to ignore
they talk a big game but at the end of the day, it always fukn boils down to corruption, inside deals and bad/malicious planning in crypto leadership
true decentralisation starts at the grass roots, with the builders who don't sell out or chase hype
keep doing what you're doing folks, we may yet help to save this space yet 💪
Thank you @EoghanH for saying out loud what many teams and projects are thinking. We never asked for help, for insider deals, or any special treatment from Base.
But we did get continually ignored, zero help, zero shout-out... despite setting the standard for fair launched tokens and memecoins on Base.
Almost makes one think that having a 100% organic chart without bundles and snipers is not something they want to associate with? Nah, couldn't be...
At Based base:0x52b492a33e447cdb854c7fc19f1e57e8bfa1777d we remain bullish about Base: it's less about who's running it, and more about the people and community we find there. Always has been. 🧢🐸🙏
@Mavericks100xs@Pumpfun You go to the OG fair launch pioneers aka Based $PEPe
They've been around over two years now, team and community been active every single day. Liquidity freshly locked for FIVE years. No team allocation. They're are as based as they come - I'd trust them with my dog.