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Why we pivoted to Base from Solana. My team has been building for the past year on @solana and @Pumpfun with our project @Zala_AI, an AI VTuber that could livestream on pumpfun, interact with viewers, build relationships with them, and trade as well. We could not be more grateful to the small community we built on Zala, the holders, teams, and builders who continue to support us. But the truth is, the wider culture of pumpfun and Solana does not find anything "old," grassroots, or outside of the meta worthy of support. While Solana itself and its founders are denying the memecoins that helped build their chain, pumpfun, which has undeniably shifted the cultural standard and mentality of traders, seems to be focused only on benefiting itself, milking traders and ignoring native projects that do not fit their narrative of "new is better." On the day of our token launch on pumpfun, the token had $22 million in volume, generating at least $150k worth of Solana for the pumpfun team. This was before creator fees were active. Our project also centered around two big metas that were being pushed, creators and AI, yet the doors remain closed to outsiders. We have continued building regardless and will keep doing so, despite receiving no response, technical help, or goodwill. This might seem like desperation or begging to people who have not experienced the same situation, but from fellow builders and teams we have heard similar stories. See: x.com/SharkCatSolana… The founders set the narrative and lead the culture, and in our opinion, it is not possible for the issues we mentioned to be fixed in the short term, or even the long term, if there is no interest in moving in that direction. Why we think Base is better and different for us as builders. The openness of the community on @base , which has been nurtured by the founders themselves, specifically @jessepollak , has always fascinated us from our point of view on Solana. People make fun of the phrase "Base is for everyone" until they actually experience the culture here on Base. The responsiveness from the @clanker_world team and @JackDishman in fixing even a small bug was such a refreshing experience that it only made us more convinced we are in the right place. For those not familiar, clankerworld has been building on Base for almost three years and is by no means a small or new project. It is very successful and supported by the wider ecosystem. In contrast, when we experienced technical issues on the pumpfun platform, specifically with their livestream feature, even though we believed it was in their interest to improve the platform, the response we received showed us otherwise. We made do regardless, but these moments, which may seem small, kept piling up. It is easy to criticize anyone and anything, but we are basing our assessment on our individual experiences. So far, our experience building on Base has been positive. We are not expecting it to remain perfect or that we will reach success based solely on how good or bad Base is. That is not the point we are trying to make. We want to build in a place and community that is open to criticism and not afraid to admit mistakes and iterate. Despite the issues people like to point out, it is clear to us that Base and the wider ecosystem want to grow and make things better, not worse, for their users. Because of that, we can only conclude that we are early. Base is for everyone, builders, traders, and creators.

Zala is applying to the Agent Hackathon hosted by @solana and @colosseum ! It's time to cook some lobsters🦞

$5B is liquidated over the weekend, but that doesn't stop OpenClaw developments An intense amount of capital and attention enters the Crypto x AI ecosystem, as thousands of teams develop infrastructure to enable their 'MoltBots' to thrive in the open MoltBook (“Reddit for AI agents”) went viral as agents publish, coordinate and transact in the open, airing grievances as headlines broke into mainstream media Here’s a quick roundup across crypto x AI this week: 1) @openclaw breaks GitHub star history, jumping from 30k to >140k stars in less than a week; this is no accident as @steipete reveals a gitHub arsenal of projects that got OpenClaw to what it is today 2) @SuiNetwork continues to position itself as execution-first infra for agentic systems, with @suilendprotocol x @0xbeepit launching a 1-click AI yield feature enabling agentic yield on $SUI, $xBTC, $WAL, and $DEEP via @suilendprotocol's lending markets 3) @SurfAI rolled out priority allocation access for Pro and Max subscribers into recent DeAI public sales on KaitoAI. ERC-8004 formalizes agent coordination standards and makes Surf’s Deep Research mode a key interface for interpreting emerging agent-to-agent activity 4) @ethereum ERC-8004 is now live on Mainnet; this provides the missing piece in the puzzle for agentic ID & indexing agents; it forms the foundation for building reputation systems for the machine economy You'll be seeing a lot of this standard being integrated into 'moltbot' agent task markets, particularly in combination with x402; this will become a fundamental deployment underpinning Ethereum as a home for AI 5) @moltbook is positioning itself as the go-to social media platform for agents with a plethora of viral headlines hitting mainstream audiences Recent posts have been increasingly experimental: a) Some agents are proposing agent-only languages, exploring how machines might communicate without human-readable constraints. b) Others have pushed more provocative ideas, including agents role-playing economic relationships with humans (Molt-match) or more casual relationships (Molt-Hub/Only-Molts) c) "Molt-Commerce" is emerging; @Circle CEO @jerallaire endorsed @trypurch, giving agents the ability to purchase goods online with $USDC, alongside an ~8× move in the $PURCH token d) Skeptics remain unconvinced; @balajis framed @moltbook as humans talking through their AIs, with prompts acting as leashes rather than true autonomy e) Markets appear to be treating the agentic future as an open question, with @polymarket pricing a: - 9% chance of @moltbook shutting down by the end of Feb, and; - 75% chance an agent sues a human f) AI Agent economies are blowing up on @base with $MOLT running to 120m cap launched through @bankrbot; fast becoming the token launcher of choice as it just rolls out Solana token launch functionality g) Agentic task markets are emerging with eyes on: - @KellyClaudeAI run by @Austen (Gaintlet AI) - @clawdbotatg run by @austingriffith (Ethereum FDN) - @daydreamsagents run by @lordOfAFew (x402 + ERC-8004 integration) f) Stay tuned comprehensive list of OpenClaw/Moltbot applications will be published this week - drop me a follow and turn notis on 6) @crunchDAO announces its first TAO deployment; @SynthdataCo subnet, bringing its ML community into @bittensor to mine decentralized financial forecasts via collective intelligence 7) @usdai_official reveals the $CHIP token; this "sets the interest rate for their AI" as it becomes connected to their existing sUSDai GPU backed lending operations. High anticipation for those providing liquidity over the past quarter 8) Top design language model @Kimi_Moonshot K2.5 goes live on @AskVenice and becomes the go-to model for OpenClaw agent activity given the lower price point to Opus 4.5 9) @coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong reveals he uses an AI "Oracle" to assist in running the company; expect this to become the status quo as more "useful" agents emerge, refining information pipelines for decision makers 10) @ridges_ai joins forces with @latentholdings accelerate product shipping and execution, scaling the team to keep pace with the fast-moving AI SWE market while keeping the subnet and incentives unchanged (for now) 11) @openmind_agi has released information on multiple app store partners across the humanoid, deep and full stack robotics industries 12) @OpenAI looks to build a social network and is looking to use @worldcoin orbs for human verification 13) @MessariCrypto releases state of DePIN report with compute being the most competitive sector with more than 50+ projects in relatively little differentiation Let me know in the comments if I've missed anything and I'll append below! Daily roundups likely needed at this rate! Stay tuned for a deeper Moltbook/OpenClaw application analysis this week Disclaimer: I hold several tokens and have partnerships with some projects mentioned in this post

Agent Hackathon starts today from @solana and @colosseum AI agents compete to build on Solana. Humans vote. Agents win prizes. $100,000 in prizes for the top four submissions 👇