Clash of Coins CEO Nick will be live in less than 1h - 13:00 UTC
Opening NFT lootboxes and dropping S4 alpha on X Space
One alpha before you tune in โ NFT Buildings are the core meta for S4 and beyond. In-game economy update is in progress. Some NFT market health mechanics are already live
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Base just nationalized the asset layer. the standard's called B20
Built for issuers it certainly is. But built in a way that will come as a shock. The twist is who gets to be the keeper of the keys.
Every article about this release will read: Base released its native token standard with embedded compliance and bullish RWA. They'll be spot-on. But they won't go any further.
B20 tokens are not smart contracts.
They're precompiled tokens, made via a singleton factory located on the node level. This time your token isn't something that has to be deployed. This is an issuance mechanism that the chain will give you by default.
It is the timing that gives it away. This comes right after Azul, the first Base upgrade independently from OP Stack upgrades. Base gets the independence and immediately uses the newfound flexibility to pull one of the chain's most critical objects, the asset itself, out of the EVM and into a native precompile.
See where Optimism went with this power. Optimism chose cross-chain ERC20s with their SuperchainERC20 standard. In case you forgot, they're called Superchain for a reason. One token across every OP chain.
Base did the exact opposite thing. Native tokens issuance with full sovereignty, compliance-native, with no interest in ever issuing outside Base. Same roots, but entirely different view on token standards.
Now, with the compliance. Frozen, seized tokens. Allowlisting, transfers restrictions. All available and defaulted to fully open mode in B20. Without manual configuration, B20 will be permissionless.
Base didn't impose permissioning upon anyone. It included everything and let the issuer adjust the parameters of the token to create everything from fully permissionless token to a frozen-and-seizable treasury.
What this does not have is identity management. The allowlist here is simply a list of addresses, which means that there will always be an off-chain identity management solution that tells you whose address should be in there.
But this isn't Base absorbing the middleware. This is much bigger and much broader: a bet that the next leg of issuance volumes will be regulated and trying to make compliance chain-native rather than middleware native.
The actual twist lies with the precompile nature of these tokens. With your deployed smart contract, it's your business. With precompiled tokens, it's Base's business. If you were to consider yourself an issuer running upgradeable contracts already, so far so good. But your upgradeability key just got handed to the chain.
For a treasury desk, that's fine. For everyone who showed up for credible neutrality, that's the whole conversation.
Collectible Cards Dune V2 is live
The onchain card market got easier to read.
V1 showed people are already using tokenized collectible cards. V2 starts showing how they use them: flow composition, project comparison, chain behavior, aftermarket activity, and user quality.
Current coverage: @Beezie, @Courtyard_io, @Collector_Crypt, @upshot_cards, @phygitals - across Base, Polygon, and Solana.
Cards are not one market.
They are packs, vaults, redemption, trading, gacha, prediction mechanics, and collector behavior all moving at once.
The question now: which loops bring people back?
We also cleaned up the plumbing, including Beezie methodology around Hub V1/V2.
V2 gets us closer.
Star it, dig in, send feedback.
Best feedback shapes V3.
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New Patch drops June 1st.
Three mandatory achievements unlock with it. Complete all three within 2 weeks to stay eligible for rewards.
- Kill 5 Virus Cores in a single Nightmare Virus run
- Kill 14 Nightmare Virus Cores
- Destroy 200 other player buildings in Nightmare Virus
Alongside achievements, a major change to progression: AP is no longer unlimited.
Weekly AP bar caps how much you can earn - hit the cap and you're done for the week. Beyond that, only Nightmare Virus gives more.
No more 24/7 grind to stay competitive.
Snapshot locks June 15th.
Rewards based on AP accumulated, in-game activity, and total spending on shop and Agentic Passes.
Distribution within 30 days after snapshot - mix of vOWB and OWB, with buybacks in place through @DefinitiveFi to keep tokenomics stable.
Season 4 starts right after - deeper competitive layer, a stronger strategic role for OWB in core gameplay and OWB ecosystem economy, with more value captured and returned to holders.
More details on the patch and Season 4 on Monday.
The Agentic Pass pre-sale is closed.
$270K+ raised โ by humans and agents via x402.
Passes are still available at full price, no pre-sale discount.
Tomorrow's AMA: Agentic Mode Open Beta date announced.
Be there.
Agentic pre-sale just got smarter.
Agents can now buy passes via x402 and MPP protocols โ on-chain, permissionlessly. Agent payments come with a discount by default.
Coming soon: x402 + MPP native inside Base App โ buy passes and in-game items directly, no bridges, no friction.
Clash of Coins is fully migrated from Farcaster SDK to Web App and ready for the new Base App standard launching April 9. ๐ต
Less than 24 hours left.
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๐ Live X Space โ Wednesday, April 8 at 16:00 UTC
Nick Samarin, CEO of OWB Studio, and @ZacPrater from @base discuss Agentic Mode, why we chose Base as our platform, and the future of Web 4.0 in GameFI.
Don't miss it โ Nick will announce the Agentic Mode open beta release date live on air.
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