Best trade ever - Degen on Base. It's my favourite because I didn't even have to buy it, I got given it just for hanging out in a Farcaster channel. And most of the people holding it were definitely not degens, which I found amusing. They were mainly developers and creatives who were suddenly sitting on bags of a coin that inexplicably went to half a billion Was a funny time.

Request for build: conditional stocks. Prediction markets tell you the odds of something happening. What if they could also price the impact to a stock? For example: Will the US allow Nvidia to sell its advanced AI chips to China? Prediction market: 30% yes. NVDA trades at ~$220 today. With tokenized stocks you could have conditional markets that price: NVDA if yes: $260 NVDA if no: ~$203 So the market isn’t just telling you there’s a 30% chance restrictions get lifted. It’s telling you what it thinks China access is actually worth to Nvidia. You could do the same for tariffs, elections, regulation, wars, court cases, drug approvals etc. Prediction markets price the odds. Conditional markets price the impact. There are probably a few different ways to structure and collateralize this. Would love to see someone figure out the best one on Base.

Base Batches 004 is open. Startups get $100K in funding and a spot at Demo Day in New York in front of investors. We're looking for teams building across onchain finance - in areas like tokenized stocks, RWAs, prediction markets, perps and a lot more.

AI agents on Base can trade stocks and deploy capital into liquidity pools to earn yield for you (shout-out @bankrbot). Already 90% of all agent payments on x402 run through Base.

For most people outside the US, owning US stocks means a slow, expensive middleman. Onchain that middleman goes away, and in the first few days execution is already competing with the incumbents. Well said by @wagmiAlexander.

Asset management has had a handful of real innovations in 350 years. Closed-end funds, then mutual funds, then ETFs. Tokenised stocks are the next one. A professionally managed strategy delivered straight to your wallet, where you keep control and can lend, margin or borrow against the assets. And @Bitwise are live with it now on @base.

true price parity between an asset and its tokenized version requires true functional parity this can't be overlooked ask anybody who's issued a stablecoin that doesn't work perfectly—nobody'll use it ask anybody who's held one of the 99% of stablecoins bound for the graveyard