Our full conversation with Jesse Pollak 0:56 Who is Jesse Pollak 2:22 Why Base shifted focus 4:44 Handing the Base app to Cobie 5:32 Taking big bets 7:53 Creator coins 9:39 The DeFi mullet 16:05 Why builders choose Base 18:30 Venice and tokenized inference 20:40 Brian Armstrong's culture of innovation 26:18 Talking to the trenches 29:44 Where creators fit in global finance 34:06 The role model Jesse wants to be

Jesse Pollak on the ecosystem forming around tokenized inference "There's this really cool tokenized inference market that Venice has innovated, where they've taken inference and turned it into a token called DIEM where you can buy it and you get $1 of inference per day" "That innovation of tokenizing inference has unlocked a ton of innovation around it, where people are using that tokenized inference to do things" "There's other projects that let people sell their tokenized inference at a discount so other people can get cheaper inference and the whole system works more efficiently" "I feel like that's the first time we're really seeing the intersection of AI plus markets plus crypto and it's thanks to Venice and it's happening on Base"

Jesse Pollak explains why he handed the Base app to Cobie “We made the call about a month ago to let me fully focus on the chain and fully focus on this mission of building the blockchain for global finance” “That meant taking the consumer product, the Base app and shifting it back to the mothership, where Cobie is now going to run it” “I think that's awesome for the Base app, it's awesome for Base and it's awesome for Coinbase because Cobie’s a beast” “It's been awesome watching the impact he's had already in the nine months he's been at the company and I think he's going to do really big things for us”

Luca Netz shares his advice for the younger generation "Understand that your age and being young is such a superpower, because as you get older your tolerance to take risk is exponentially smaller" "My claim to fame is that I tested out of school when i was 15. So when people look at my success they're like, dude you're so successful. I'm like, yeah but i've been doing this for 13 years. I'm 28 now" "The people listening don't really understand how important it is to take the information here and take risks" "If you're not paying rent, you're in such an amazing situation. Now's the time you can take risks and lose it all and keep running it back until you find something"

FaZe Banks reveals TJR spent $500,000 at Chrome Hearts in 20 minutes “I watched this 24 year old kid walk into Chrome in St. Barts and drop half a million dollars in Chrome in like 20 minutes. On like jewelry. ‘Yeah, give me that, give me that’” “It was one of the most foul things I've ever seen and then I saw him hit a $100,000 lick on the beach”

Ansem on tokenized attention "What people miss is the tokenized attention piece. a lot of people say it's valueless and I think that's really untrue" "Last cycle Solana was trying to sell their first round of phones and weren't doing a great job. Then BONK airdropped tokens to people holding those phones" "When the tokens started going up, the airdrop was worth more than the phone cost. So people just started buying the phone and it sold out immediately" "Attention is very intangible, but tokens are one of the only ways you can ascribe value to attention in markets"

Ansem describes the type of community he wants to build with solana:9cRCn9rGT8V2imeM2BaKs13yhMEais3ruM3rPvTGpump "What I want to create is a community that's not only trading onchain, but also learning from each other"

Ansem explains how one big PvE event can change the whole market "When you have a PvE event onchain that a lot of people make money on, it always flows down to everything else" "Look at what the Uniswap/Jito/Jupiter airdrops did. Onchain activity spiked a ton after that" "Right now there's not a lot of attention in crypto. BUT if some positive energy comes out and people see the fundamentally good things going on, coins start going up, people make money onchain then that's an influx of new capital and attention" "That's what i'm betting on happening. That's what i was betting on in 2023 and I think it's going to happen again"

Ansem reacts to the odds of solana:9cRCn9rGT8V2imeM2BaKs13yhMEais3ruM3rPvTGpump flipping solana:pumpCmXqMfrsAkQ5r49WcJnRayYRqmXz6ae8H7H9Dfn "This is free bro, its only like a 3x to flip right now" "If Solana makes a new ATH past where it was last cycle, i think the onchain coins are going to go higher than last cycle"