The technical barrier to entry for building financial services businesses has never been lower. This means that you don't need to raise VC $'s to build your business. It also means that founders can go after smaller markets - either via verticalization, specialization or targeting niche geographies that VCs don't feel comfortable underwriting due to TAM concerns. Its an unbelievable time to build.

Energy. Chips. Compute. Models. Apps. Most of the AI stack is already in the $1T club. What's missing? The rails autonomous agents will actually run on. Onchain. Programmable. Instant. Cheap. The Rails are next @base

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Forecast is true leverage for prediction markets Prediction markets did $63.5 billion last year and now clear $6 billion a week, all stuck at 1x. Forecast is the first protocol to offer real leverage: 100x and beyond, with no price-based liquidations Today, the predeposit vault opens to everyone, and trading will open soon. LPs will earn yield based on trader demand for leverage, not traders being right or wrong Leverage on Forecast can 3x - 10x current spot prediction market volume. The yield on that demand will flow entirely to LPs. Now you can get in now on the ground floor Predeposit link in bio

Creative economy is coming onchain on @base

Hardening cryptography, cryptocurrency and coinbase. Good guys are fundamentally advantaged using AI to secure because we have full access to our own source code, and a decade of experience powering cryptocurrencies at the largest scale.

Coinbase is a payments company. We offer the full stack of infrastructure required to move money quickly, efficiently, and globally. You may not know this yet, but you will. Read more in the blog below.

The neobank revolution is happening on @base: - @AviciMoney - @Bitso - @Cypher_HQ_ - @DeblockApp - @edenfi_onchain - @ether_fi - @Exa_App - @fido_usa - @fluidkey - @getaxal - @getberryapp - @getBusha - @getrebind - @getrizon - @Go_Karsa - @HurupayApp - @itstuyo - @KASTxyz - @kiteappxyz - @kontigo_app - @koywe_latam - @lemonapp_ar - @liminalcash - @meow - @minipay - @moneda_com - @ndovu_wealth - @Nexo - @nook_platform - @OfframpXYZ - @OnboardGlobal - @On_Veera - @peso_latam - @Plasma - @plutus - @Privily_fi - @RipioApp - @Send - @slashapp - @somosmeru - @stables_money - @StraitsX - @superformxyz - @Tap_Fintech - @useaccrue - @useTria - @Vaultleap - @wirexapp - @zothdotio Every neobank will be built on Base rails

nice to see @base cruising at 550 TPS the chain can now burst up to 5K TPS, with a bunch more headroom coming in the months ahead now that we're on our own stack post-Azul team has been doing an incredible job scaling

What a ride. @Base batches 003 In the books. Friends made, memories logged. Shout out to @jessepollak @RyanGittleson @EvSlatts @ZacPrater @brian_armstrong @BronheimDaniel and the entire team at Coinbase. Not to mention these incredible founders. Keep your eye on this cohort building the future. 🫡🫶 PS if you’re applying for next batch feel free to reach out. Happy to answer any questions

At this rate going to run out of letters in the alphabet 🤠

What it takes to make everything tradable Brian spoke with the founders of @opal_dex during Base Batches about the complexities of making it possible

still have a lot of work to do, but exciting to see base's progress and current adoption in core onchain categories: Trading: #1 in BTC & ETH spot volume USD Payments: #1 in monthly USDC transfer volume Non-USD Payments: #1 in non-USD stablecoin transfer volume Agentic Payments: #1 in real x402 volume Lending: #2 in lending TVL onwards

The early stage builder ecosystem on Base is thriving. Batches 003 clearly shows this. Agentic commerce, prediction markets, x402, uncollateralized credit, onchain FX, neobanking. And that's just scratching the surface. Founders are choosing Base because the critical mass of builders and primitives here creates real composability and network effects. Every new app makes the others more useful. Layer on top of that our unique distribution, institutional grade infrastructure, low cost, high speed and the case is pretty clear. We are doubling down on this at Base Ecosystem Fund. We're investing in the best founders in crypto building on Base with the goal of making it the home for global finance. If you're building here or thinking about it, we want to support you.

Such an amazing experience. @brian_armstrong and @jessepollak were in the first row!!! And just to be clear, @0x4Mica is far more than just batch settlements. Check us out: 4mica.xyz

Introducing Base MCP Your agent's new gateway to Base → Connect an agent to your Base Account → Enable it to swap, trade, and manage your portfolio → Use plugins from leading apps on Base The next stage of the agentic onchain economy

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One of the toughest parts of being a founder is putting your ideas into the world, seeing if anyone cares (usually they don't - or worse, are rooting against you), and then seeing if you can actually pull it off (usually way more setbacks along the way than you thought!). You have to: (1) develop thick skin and find a way to ignore the haters (2) still take advice from people who have your best interests at heart (3) have the wisdom to know the difference Then move from one setback to the next with no loss of enthusiasm for longer than you thought. Be borderline delusional, get after it every day for a decade, and turn out to be right. Finally, when your tenth or hundredth approach to a problem doesn't work, just keep coming up with more ideas. Had a great day at Base Batches yesterday, meeting founders building on @base and hearing about the latest onchain innovations. Shout out to all the founders!