a few words about my thinking around amplifying clanker builders and tokens from this account. first of all: builders need distribution more than anything else. I know, because I’ve been one myself, and I’ve spent years in the onchain trenches with builders and traders alike. it’s one of the easiest things to give, and it’s functionally free…. yet most ecosystems and ecosystem leads fail to do it properly. and that’s probably because they’re scared. they’re scared to accidentally promote a rug, or a soft rug, or an outright scam. which, fair enough. it’s a minefield out there, and in the golden age of AI slop, some of the mines are difficult to sweep. but I’m not scared. I’ll do my best to vet new projects before amplifying them here. I’ve already been actively reaching out to builders to open comms and make sure they can get the support they need to build for the long term, and will continue to do so. I’ll share clanker eco projects that I think are promising because those builders deserve the initial attention, and the opportunity to earn more of it over time (scarce asset that it is). And I’ll share memes with good teams because memes are entertaining and it would be super boring around here without them. I’ll continue to buy some of these tokens on my public fomo as a signal of support too, and I won’t sell them. But despite all that, some of these won’t work out, and that’s ok. we’re all adults here and we understand the game we’re playing: the speculative attention game. but speculative attention games that can allow real builders to bootstrap real projects they otherwise could not build, so that’s pretty based. I think there’s a whole hierarchy of “free” distribution that can eventually be earned in this eco, including follows and shares from the @clanker_world account, other @base leaders, etc. I’ll also work on a plan for how these kinds of “vouches” can be earned over time. but as for me and this account, my top priority is to lift up clanker builders, old and new. I’ll do my best to curate them carefully and give them a chance to earn your longer term support (or not). imo, this is the only way we can win together. clank clank.

BTW, @carlosjmelgar and I are kicking off an experimental new X Spaces series called Base Trenches Weekly (BTW), where we will cover everything that’s happening with memecoins, trends and tokens on @base. The first episode will be next Tuesday at noon EST and we’re excited to welcome @Nibel_eth from Base + @Fredvelezcrypto and @SupremememeBOSS from @TEMUonBASE and @StonksDGUY. RSVP using the LUMA below, grab your helmet and we’ll see you in the trenches. 🫡🫡

TEMU is the first @base coin I’ve seen that uses @Stonks_Exchange’s Buy & Burn module, and I have to say, it’s pretty cool. Instead of taking dev fees, the @TEMUonBASE deployer set the 1% trading fee to automatically buy and burn $TE instead. The token is barely a day old and has already burned 3.4% of its own supply!🔥 I think this is a worthwhile experiment to compare against the reflections model, where trading fees are returned to holders in the form of tokenized stocks. Both are cool, but Buy & Burn might actually be better in some ways: every holder benefits from the reduced supply automatically, without filling your wallet with reflection dust. And if volume keeps up, the interesting question becomes… What does this little stock-paired meme look like after it burns 10% of its own supply? 20%? Adding to my bag while monitoring…

My team is getting stronger! 💪 Today I added another stock-pair Pokémon to my growing Based collection: @TEMUonBASE. After @apex_ether’s bot chimed to alert him that liquidity had been added for some newly issued @coinbase onchain equities, we started scouring the new pairs together and stumbled across this gem: $TE paired with $MU (Micron) to make $TEMU. Extremely stupid. But also very funny and Base-coded. And it has a cute mascot to boot. It’s the first MUc-paired meme I’ve seen and perhaps the most interesting candidate to emerge from @Stonks_Exchange thus far. It’s still day one, so obviously very early, but I’m cautiously optimistic. The deployer appears to have directed all fees toward buying and burning $TEMU, paid for DEX, and already spun up a Twitter account. All good early signals, but I’ll be watching to see how it develops. Stock-paired meme season is coming to Base whether you like it or not, and I’m just making sure I’m positioned accordingly. 🫡 Gotta catch ’em all. 🔴⚪️

Base entered the stock-paired meme arena a little later than RH, but I still think we’re going to see major runners emerge around all the obvious tokenized equity pairs on offer this cycle, and soon. So I’m officially on my Ash arc rn: searching across @base-native launchpads for the best available memes paired with every major stock, making sure I’ve got some exposure before the inevitable Base szn that’s loading… Here’s what I’ve caught so far. Tell me what I’m missing: 1) First and foremost: @o1bluechip / NVDAc Been in since 100k and have barely sold a chip because I believe this is a $100M+ coin so still huge upside from here. Already listed on @coinbase at barely a month old, driving a meaningful chunk of NVDAc volume and TVL, and now equipped with one of the cutest mascots in the game. Just a matter of time imo. Until then, I’m comfy in chip. 2) @iPodAAPLc / AAPL By @feeldotcash. Most promising AAPL-paired meme I’ve seen, and one of the first reflection tokens on Base too, so you literally get paid in onchain Apple stock just for holding. 1.3m mc currently. @Gon0x_ and co are fellow Base Batches alum and have made this their flagship. I wouldn’t fade. I WOULD like to see them lean harder into a more friendly, recognizable brand like BLUECHIP has. Maybe they can borrow the little iPod guy from this image I made and run with him… go nuts 😂 3) DGuy / AMZN First decent Amazon pair I’ve found on Base. The meme itself is simple, but the site is pretty fun, basically an Amazon-style shopping site, except you’re shopping for coins launched through StonkEx. Still below 200k mc, send it. 4) A wild SPIKE appears… 🦎 Brand new today from @Stonxfun, so obviously still needs to prove itself, but already above 1M Mc on day one and I really like the concept: @brian_armstrong’s pet iguana paired with tokenized COIN stock. (Not Coinbase-issued COIN yet, since that doesn’t yet exist.) Anyway, I’m out here exploring the trenches and building my team. What should I throw a Poké Ball at next?

The sign of any good protocol imo is how long it takes before other cracked builders to start adding their own Lego blocks, and I was wondering how long it would take to see this for @0xbeans’s @standard_rsv. Turns out, not long. @CyphrGM just created Standard Deviation (incredible name), which is kind of like what @ripe0x’s MEGARIP was for @token_works / FWA: a way for users to collaborate and pool capital to play the game more strategically together. Bullish.

Time for another base:0xb200000000000000000000cfbdf64a8706a94a01 onchain stock volume update: Ran a quick codex scan for the past 7 days of onchain equity volume on @coinbase and found that @o1bluechip continues to quietly become a meaningful piece of NVDAc’s market. In fact, the humble chip is now the #2# NVDAc liquidity venue, behind only the main NVDAc/USDC @aeroxyz pool, with over $445K in liquidity vs. $2.26M for Aero. And that liquidity is getting used too. BLUECHIP continues to drive roughly 15% of ALL NVDAc trading volume, or about 1 in every 7 dollars traded into that onchain stock. Think about how wild that is for a second… A memecoin paired against a stock has become one of that stock’s largest liquidity venues onchain AND is consistently driving a meaningful percentage of its total volume too. As I emphasized during our @buildonbase Round Table spaces with @saxenasaheb earlier today, stock-paired memes on @base are definitely pulling their weight. You might say they’re… really chipping in. 🔷

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