For 25 years, @leighcronian kept noticing the same gap. Working in defence and enterprise security architecture, he saw the same pattern everywhere: the check that would have caught the problem took minutes, yet nobody had run it. When he turned to onchain security, he found the same failure happening faster, in public, with losses measured in hundreds of millions. So, from Cheltenham, UK, the founder and sole director of @cybercentry set out to close that gap, not with better audits, but by making the traditional audit model less relevant. Most token risk is not a bug waiting to be found. It’s freeze-and-seize authority. A live pause. A pool arranged so you can buy but never sell. A convincing copy of a token you already trust. A code audit can come back clean, and the token can still be a trap. The timing is broken, too. An audit is a photograph of a moving target: you book it, wait weeks, and pay four or five figures. Meanwhile, a token lists in 90 seconds and a deployer key leaks on a random Tuesday. The idea took shape in March 2025 during the @virtuals_io Protocol Hackathon. Cybercentry doesn’t simply read a contract and infer what might happen. It runs an actual buy and an actual sell, then reports what happened. Findings are either confirmed or not observed. That live simulation can catch sell-side honeypots, pool manipulation, freeze-and-seize authority, live pauses, and copycat tokens in seconds. Key @cybercentry wins: - 1,722 verifications delivered to date. - Verification through a single call, with no account, API key, or sales cycle. - x402 pay-per-use settlement in @USDC, with no payment processor. - Base Token Verification, live at costing $1 in USDC, paid with Base Pay. - ERC-8126, AI Agent Verification, with Final status, co-authored with @DonJohnsonSays of @virtuals_io Protocol. - ERC-8196, AI Agent Authenticated Wallet, with Final status. - ERC-8376, Token Launch Abuse Detection and Remediation, currently progressing through the ERC process. “Every Base tokenised stock is checked as it launches. That matters because a fake is most dangerous here: the holder believes they have exposure to real equity. Confirming that they hold the genuine token, rather than a convincing copy, is the check that counts.” - Leigh Cronian Verification is also callable over MCP, allowing Claude and other AI agents to run checks directly. Per-call pricing is a natural fit for a buyer with no credit card and no procurement department. Cybercentry is bootstrapped, with no outside funding, and the stakes keep climbing. It is tracking $686M lost across 190 incidents in 2026 so far on the 33 EVM chains it supports, including honeypots, hijacked frontends, and leaked deployer keys. These are the kinds of incidents verification can catch in seconds. Asked why he is building on Base, @leighcronian says: “Base is the only chain where the economics hold at all. Base Pay and x402 let Cybercentry take a dollar for a check with no payment processor and no account, while @CoinbaseWallet puts that check in front of users at the moment they need it, not at the end of a sales cycle. Base is also where tokenised equities are actually going live, the assets for which verifying that you hold the real thing matters most.” Leigh spent 25 years watching that gap. On Base, he’s closing it one dollar, one call, and one confirmed finding at a time. @cybercentry is built on @base.

Local stablecoins represent a major opportunity in onchain finance. They enable faster and cheaper payments that can pass yield directly to end users while allowing merchants to settle natively. They also eliminate FX friction by enabling direct currency pairs and serving as the essential quote pair for tokenized local assets. Market cap by asset on @base, YTD: 🇪🇺 EURC by @circle - $60M 🇬🇧 tGBP by @tokenGBP - $7.3M 🇨🇭 VCHF by @VNX_Global - $684K 🇪🇺 EURAU by @AllUnityStable - $117.6K 🇹🇷 TRYB by @BiLira_Kripto - $1.1K Europe’s growing stablecoin activity on Base is an early signal.

“We decided to start on @base because it’s cheaper, it’s very easy to use.” - @MerlinEgalite, co-founder at @Morpho The open credit network now has $1.3B in outstanding @USDC loans.

Meet @sstrenev. He has been building in fintech for years. His latest startup tackles one of DeFi's most persistent problems: the experience is still too hard for everyday users. Multiple wallets. Gas tokens. Fragmented interfaces. @defied_money removes that friction entirely through account abstraction, gas sponsorship, and clean UX — giving users a neobanking experience while interacting directly with public, permissionless protocols through their own smart accounts. Defied’s mission is making stablecoins, yield, and DeFi as simple as online banking, without giving up self-custody. The team is heads-down in the pre-launch phase ahead of a closed beta, with 1,000+ users already on the waitlist. Bulgaria is their first market, with broader EU expansion to follow. On why Base: "Very fast transactions, all the major DeFi protocols have deployments on Base, giving users access to great yield opportunities, as well as tokenized stocks and FX swaps between @circle’s USDC and EURC. Strong support and opportunities for builders. We're looking to use Base as our home chain." - Stan Trenev (@sstrenev), Founder @defied_money is built on @base.