GM all! Week 3 of @Base Batches 🟦 1. Base Batches W3 A packed week, split pretty evenly between growing as founders and growing the product. • Sat down with peeps from the Base ecosystem team and picked their brains on the trends they're seeing and where they think the onchain landscape is heading. • Design session with @PhilHedayatnia , co-founder & CEO of Airfoil. Got an insiders look on how he approaches design and his framing stuck with me: great design is applied psychology. Study how people think and behave, then build around it. Best part was getting our own landing page/webapp critiqued live, and the biggest takeaway for us: your product should sell the vision, not just the features. • AMA with @seanlippel, GP at Fintech Collective. Few people sit at the intersection of TradFi and crypto the way he does, and hearing how he sees the two converge over the next few years was very insightful. For a team building the onchain version of traditional markets, this was definitely the highlight of the week. • @therymac on founder-led marketing: how to position yourself, tell a story people actually connect with, and be clear on why you're the one building this. 2. Collaboration • Every team gets a dedicated mentor, and we couldn't have been matched better than with @j_austincain . His expertise lines up almost exactly with what we're building, and we spent our time pressure-testing GTM and how Tribeca fits into the Base ecosystem. • Had a great discussion with @AhaanRaizada on bringing Base to Asia, and seeing @jessepollak in the trenches with Chinese traders made it clear how serious Base is about going global. We want @Tribeca_xyz to be part of that push. 我们正在 Base 上打造全球股票市场! • Caught up with @mercatus_ai , who building a market for AI tokens. Love seeing price discovery applied to compute. Super cracked team and the product is genuinely innovative so check them out! 3. Reflections • What stands out most is how much Base invests in every team, in both the founders and the products. Despite us being so early stage, it is amazing to see the team put their weight behind us and what we are triyng to build. If you're building, come build on @base and build in public. The support is real. • Last week we had the @Tribeca_xyz launch and support has been incredible. We're currently building out our ambassador program so if you're in trading or a KOL on @Base, make sure to reach out! Special shoutout to @BronheimDaniel @davidtsocy @AhaanRaizada @0xbiriyani @1CrypticPoet @toady_hawk @CoinbaseDuck @iamheci @DopeOxide @saxenasaheb @basebro_ @BaseJunkie_ @QuigleyNFT for helping us launch with a BANG!

The largest single onchain FX trade was just executed on Veranta: a $19M $EURUSD long with 190x leverage. 💪 This trader paid zero trading fees and only ~1bp spread to open the trade. We're increasingly seeing FX and commodities traders choose Veranta as the best onchain venue to trade in size.

"Base is the Ethereum scaling roadmap made manifest. The team is passionate and engaged, the technology speaks for itself, and the backing of @coinbase makes this the ideal L2 for stablecoins." That's @SimonDingle, founder of @ZARP_Stablecoin, a stablecoin for the South African Rand 🇿🇦 His journey started in 2010, when he first heard about Bitcoin. To him, it was the first true distributed trust protocol for the internet, and it set the direction for his career. He brought his background in open source, media and product design to fintechs including 22seven, Luno and Curve. Then he started his own company, built around one belief: anything that can be done with money can be done better with stablecoins. Today, ZARP is an independent issuer with dozens of integrated partners, a growing ecosystem and the backing of Old Mutual, one of Africa's oldest asset managers. @ZARP_Stablecoin by the numbers: - $4.58M market cap - $5.35M in transfer volume over the last 90 days - $950K+ circulating supply on Base Local currency stablecoins are growing across Africa, and they let people and businesses send, save and get paid onchain, in the money they already use. @ZARP_Stablecoin is built on @base.

Launch a token. Share the upside. Creator fee-sharing is live on @o1exchange: → Split trading fees with any X accounts at launch → Set exactly what % each one gets → Recipients connect X and claim straight from their profile Bring your community, collabs, and KOLs in on day one.

If you're a community builder, @base just handed you a golden opportunity. Create your ideal "community" around base. Traders, creators, builders, etc... just make sure it's REAL contributors (live players, not NPC), creating REAL value (economic value). The advocate program included many valuable contributors, they can all be leaders now.