Proof of Talk(@proofoftalk):Ten years ago, rooms like this didn't exist. The institutions weren't here. It was mostly talk. Xen Baynham-Herd @XenBH (Director of Growth, Base @base) took the Taostats Stage at the Louvre to show how much has changed and to announce Base MCP live at Proof of Talk 2026. Trading. Payments. Agents. All markets that didn't exist in 2020, now large enough to compete with their TradFi equivalents. $13 trillion in cumulative on-chain trading volume. $322 billion stablecoin market cap. 100 million transactions settled on X402. And under 1% of the world's money is on chain. The question isn't whether capital comes on chain. The question is where it goes. Watch the full keynote below.

2026.08.06 12:30

Ten years ago, rooms like this didn't exist. The institutions weren't here. It was mostly talk. Xen Baynham-Herd @XenBH (Director of Growth, Base @base) took the Taostats Stage at the Louvre to show how much has changed and to announce Base MCP live at Proof of Talk 2026. Trading. Payments. Agents. All markets that didn't exist in 2020, now large enough to compete with their TradFi equivalents. $13 trillion in cumulative on-chain trading volume. $322 billion stablecoin market cap. 100 million transactions settled on X402. And under 1% of the world's money is on chain. The question isn't whether capital comes on chain. The question is where it goes. Watch the full keynote below.