Brian Armstrong

Every AI agent deserves a crypto wallet. In fact, there will be more AI agents transacting online than humans very soon. x402 is the internet payments layer (which has been missing for the last 30 years), and will enable this. The new x402 foundation will exist under the Linux Foundation, with @Coinbase, @Cloudflare and @Stripe as key contributors. Once all agents start transacting natively on the internet at scale, entirely new product and business opportunities will open up.

Last month, we launched Project Gigabrain. A $25k funding opportunity to push brain organoids beyond disease models, into scale, networks, and computation. So far, 16 proposals have been submitted by researchers across neuroscience, bioengineering, and computational biology. Here are some of the top-ranked submissions (no particular order): 🧵

Moving fast now

Imagine if your AI assistant could independently search for a new API tool, check the price, pay for it, and use it, all in seconds. Today we are launching Bazaar MCP: the first discovery marketplace for AI tools and APIs. 🛒🤖 Here is why this matters 🧵👇

Aging is arguably the root cause of most major diseases. Our cells lose function as we age, allowing various conditions to manifest, which is why most major diseases correlate with age. Yes, it is more complex than this, but this is a major component. @newlimit is working on treating a root cause of disease (aging) using epigenetic reprogramming.

Or you can click here to go straight there: base.app/invite

Referrals are live on @baseapp. Refer your friends to earn 25% of their swap fees. They get a 10% fee discount too. (Install the app, then tap your profile photo in top left, then "Invite Friends")

the new base leaderboard is soooo clean ✨

gm who’s tried @baseapp referral program already? what’s working / what’s not?

@0xQuit @coinbase Fair point - will look into getting this fixed.

It is ABSURD that Coinbase only displays 10 total digits of your deposit address. There's no straightforward way to view the entire address, leaving users vulnerable to clipboard hijacking and lookalike-address attacks. Needs to change @coinbase

Developer tools for Base App improving 👌

Big scalability improvement for agentic payments: x402 "Upto". Pre-authorize up to an amount, use as much as you want, the final amount gets settled onchain.

Stablecoins move on Base

Happy National Pet Day from my favorite journalist at the Bark Street Journal.

Base is now even faster (5k TPS and growing). Base is the best chain for trading, payments, and agents.

@bscholl Nicely done!

As we enter the build phase for our first engine, Boom is moving to video updates for our investors. Here is our most recent investor update (financial info redacted). Hint: there is an Easter egg 🥚

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Thanks for choosing Coinbase @TimDraper!

@Little_Dogx @baseapp Thx - making rapid progress now

Truth is the @baseapp these days feels much more responsive, I do like the new changes and the UI is getting better. Not a big fan of the font they chose for the app but at this time the app looks fast, clean and very usable. Still a long way to go before it becomes seamless but I'm very confident of where things are going. Great job from @Oxxbid and the rest of the team

@CoinbaseDuck @coinbase Selling stocks into USDC should be doable. We'll look into it - good idea.

I see one barrier for people who wanna trade stonks on @coinbase is they are losing daily trading volume amount of $USDC in the 3.5% reward. So most will still keep their trading with Robinhood until Coinbase figures out how to settle on $USDC. There should be a campaign for first adopter with Coinbase one subscription. Cc @maxbranzburg

@Joe80398726 @CoinbaseDuck @coinbase Works for me. Which stock are you searching for? Thx for the feedback!

@CoinbaseDuck @coinbase Can’t search individual stocks on mobile either. Terrible UI when I want to purchase a certain individual stock that isn’t the MAG 7