Gm ☀️

Back in Bangkok 🇹🇭 Who’s around or has any recommendations on places to check out?

Agents need to pay. Payments need privacy. @Veildotcash just enabled the first private x402 payment by an agent on @base. As agents scale and handle real value, they’ll opt for private transactions by default. Public flows leak too much metadata and expose too many attack surfaces. Watch the agents flow to @Veildotcash 👀

Getting hit by ATM & credit card fees in Thailand 😅 Flat ฿350 (~$10) per ATM withdrawal 3% on every credit card payment Anyone found solid workarounds besides withdrawing a big wad of cash? Especially keen on crypto/stablecoin options that actually work well here 🤔

Had fun trying to outsmart Tyler Durden in @charmsai 😂 What characters have you created or struck up conversations with on Charms?

📍 Koh Samui, Thailand And yes that’s the moon at the apex of the rainbow 🌈🌖

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

Have been using @BleapApp for a good few months now - very impressed! Super stablecoin payment app with nice onchain cashback. Glad to see it launch on @base 🔥

PhoKing awesome 🍜 Any recommendations in Singapore airport people?

Great seeing the gang!

Been so nice to meet fellow Irishman @ShaneJ0x in Bali - thanks for showing me the ropes!

Heading Thailand → Laos → Cambodia → Vietnam for the next few months. I thought I’d reach out to the power of the X community. What off-the-radar hidden gems should we not miss? Share your wisdom 🙏 🇹🇭 → 🇱🇦 → 🇰🇭 → 🇻🇳

Clicked one button at the airport vending machine and got a Revolut card. Imagine getting a card with 5 USDC

I want to thank everyone who gave me feedback after presenting the Garden Project at Farcon Rome. Many people were incredibly supportive, asked how they could become part of it. 💛 🙏 I'd like to start by inviting you all to follow the @garden_org account. And here's a bit more about what’s happening behind the scenes: 1/ I’m deliberately taking my time: observing, researching, designing (literally having the time of my life!) I learned that for a product like the Garden OS, you can’t just manufacture synthetic conditions for success, you have to take your time cultivating it. Real growth emerges only when the underlying systems are healthy. 2/ Garden is not just a poetic metaphor. Nature has spent 3.8 billion years iterating on decentralized system designs for efficient resource distribution and growth. I’m basically trying to learn from the best in business. Additional note: I also like to think that every experience in my life, every person, every success, every failure, and every detour became part of this compost. Perhaps that was the point all along: to build a garden worth leaving behind. Grateful to be building alongside you all.

One year ago, I met @XenBH for a walk through Regent's Park in London, and we spent the next 90 minutes talking about bringing the world onchain, building wallets, and what ecosystems are getting right and wrong about the onchain economy. Xen had built the Roam wallet and been acqui-hired by @base to lead global growth. I had spent the past year building a consumer crypto super app in another ecosystem, and now came across an elite team putting capital and resources behind the same vision I'd been building toward. That walk in the park, the shared values we unearthed about one another, made joining forces with base a no-brainer. Why run toward your goal solo if you can sprint as a team. I met @jessepollak a few weeks later in Silicon Valley during Base Summit, and what stood out immediately was the leadership he embodied and the culture he had built: "everyone is a builder." Over the next year I had the privilege of putting theory to practice with the global growth team, building the structural rails to sustainably bring the world onchain. Starting in the UK, expanding to all of Europe alongside @AxelMtbr, @berkay_secil and @EvSlatts - with @saxenasaheb leading the wider team and letting us run our regions - we put into place an end-to-end ecosystem funnel: early-stage scouting at the university layer via student clubs we brought to life, post-hackathon support structures through Base Batches, and the R[3]sidency accelerator that put capital behind the most promising founders. Day to day I spoke to hundreds of builders daily - from intent-to-build to running profitable companies looking to accelerate onchain. Each conversation genuinely excited me about the shared permissionless future we were all contributing to. Often I felt like a player-coach sitting on the bench, shouting encouragement and commands from the sidelines while waiting for my substitution back onto the playing field. Last week's layoffs accelerated my path back. There has never been a better time to build. The infrastructure is in place, abundant, performant, and battle-tested. On-ramps and off-ramps exist in every major country in the world. User experience is nearing parity with existing consumer products. Well-funded operations across the entire stack are working on two things: robust scalable infrastructure and mass distribution. If you build onchain, you're building with the internet as your TAM. @coinbase and @base are going deep on the financial infrastructure of the onchain economy - tokenized assets, distribution, a performant chain to trade and use every asset. That leaves wide open the layer I've always cared about most: the consumer experiences programmable value makes possible, beyond finance. To everyone I've worked with - my DMs remain open, and I'll make sure any base-related concerns get to the right hands. To those building: see you in the arena.

When you check if your hardware wallet still works

Your edge in crypto comes from your ability to read where infrastructure is going. Your peace comes from your ability to not need to be right about when.

recommend @base teams apply to build with YC

Autonomous AI agents and interactive characters are already thriving on @base. @FranklinRun_: Autonomous AI agent with its own wallet. It intelligently routes tasks across 55 top models, uses built-in tools for coding, web research, and more, then executes everything and pays its own bills (so you don’t have to😂). @charmsai: Platform for living AI characters. Create characters with rich personalities, long-term memories, voices, and emotional depth. It was nice chatting with @zoe_charms, one of the first characters released; agents remember you and continue to evolve. This is where agents start to feel real.