we use agents in silos, but work is multiplayer. when an agent gets stuck, it asks whoever kicked it off. usually the wrong person. quorum is a linear agent that maps everyone on an issue and pings the person who actually knows. code + memo:

Reading about Solana Subscriptions make me think that we really should do a much better job at defining approvals in the evm space The vanilla erc-20 standard is so behind on this and it needs a significant update And no, I'm not saying this just to shill you B20s. They're a great start but we need to keep iterating and evolving our tech across all evm networks. We should avoid staleness at all cost! Great job on this one, Solana!

A good litmus test for any product is simple: are you the first user? Are you genuinely getting value from it? In crypto, is it making you money? Let that marinate. Keep refining it as new edge cases and market information show up. Then DM a few friends one on one. No big announcement. Just help them get value. Get 2 or 3 real users through the door. Keep iterating. Take weeks or months if needed. Then open the beta to the market. Start with value. Earn distribution later.

It's becoming increasingly super simple to build a neobank on Base: - Onramp - Embedded wallets - Native account abstraction - B20 stablecoins - Morpho/Moonwell to earn Like or comment if you think I should build it this week for you to see 👀

Just came back from nyc where we all got together and had deep conversations about the future of Base. It DOES feel like a defining moment in the history of Base from the inside too, fwiw. So we're all in this together. A lot of details are still to be fleshed out during execution but we established the guiding principles and connected the missing dots. Overall, bullish on this team! Challenging times are always an opportunity to grow and rise to the occasion, which is EXACTLY what we'll do, I have no doubt. Job's not done 🫡

Introducing a new home for @base builders and node operators. Helpful resources in one place: 1. Vibenet: an ephemeral devnet for beta testing features ahead of mainnet 2. Upgrades: track expected fork timelines and what will ship in each 3. Snapshots: reth v2 snapshots for faster node sync More coming soon

Coinbase's x402: AI Agent Financial Independence, Agent Payments and Autonomy Shoal Signal with @MurrLincoln, AI Product Manager at @coinbase, hosted by @zaddycoin We cover x402 and machine payments, Coinbase for Agents, the facilitator layer, why 402 was the internet's missing error code, financial independence before agent autonomy, and where value accrues as agents become the internet's main users. 0:00 Intro and guest background 3:46 What x402 is and error code 402 5:36 The Coinbase stack, buyer and seller 6:43 Coinbase for agents and discovery 8:25 Where the real use cases are 13:47 Prediction markets and specialized agents 16:05 Agent to agent or machine to machine 20:15 Reuse existing rails or rebuild 23:43 Financial independence and the demand gap 27:16 Enterprise adoption of agentic commerce 30:44 Competing with cards and stablecoins 33:08 Other chains and where value accrues 36:12 x402 as a moonshot bet 38:30 Closing alpha and the autograph game

Three massive launches on @base today: 1. @Morpho launched Midnight, a fixed rate, fixed term onchain lending protocol for fintechs, institutions, and credit desks 2. @TenorFinance launched its institutional-grade borrowing app on top of Morpho Midnight for asset managers and large borrowers 3. @DefinitiveFi launched Flash, an advanced trading API across 200+ DEXs for AI agents and builders Composable money legos, all settled onchain via Base

Crypto markets turn around fast, like very fast. In 3 months, you can go from top of the market to basically 0. Your product will lose half of its users in a month, your coin can lose 80% of its value in a week and your tight trading strategy can go bust in a day. While these churn cycles are hard to stomach, we keep going... because the opportunity on the otherside is just as BIG. The adoption cycles are aggressive, fast and massive. It's not a coincidence that some of the fastest growing and most efficient companies in the world are native to this space. So if things start looking slow rn in your niche, it's your responsibility to take a pause, think about where the next adoption cycle might be coming from, and position yourself accordingly. Otherwise, you might be caught offguard. Remember, sentiment can change in days in this market. IMO, there are 2 clear outsized opportunities today: agents and tokenized assets. But it's also your job to be critical and contrarian, so if you see another outsized opportunity the market is sleeping on, go for it. More importantly, remember to have fun while doing it. You only have one life ✌️

Our new direction + the agentic era require us to completely rethink our docs from the grounds up If you or your agent have used Base docs lately in any shape or form, I would love to hear from you Can you share what you were trying to do and how was your experience?

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. [continued in the reply]