Base Boss
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base but with a hood on.
everyone reviewed robinhood chain as a product launch. i think it's a trap for base airdrop money, set up months in advance.
what went live on july 1:
→ stock tokens in 120+ countries inside robinhood wallet, trading 24/7, usable as defi collateral
→ uniswap live from day one as the main public dex
→ morpho powering robinhood earn with ~7% on USDG
→ USDG issued natively on the chain
→ perps built straight into the wallet via lighter
→ arcus (by dYdX team), stock trading at zero fees with a token promised to the community
→ gas free for the first 90 days
now look at base's side of the board.
they said out loud they're exploring a network token. in february they walked off the OP stack onto their own codebase and stopped paying optimism rent.
and now they're about to ship B20, their own token standard baked straight into the node software. erc20 compatible, but with freeze and transfer controls built in, aimed at stablecoins, RWAs and tokenized equities.
nobody rebuilds token plumbing at the protocol level for fun.
robinhood chain mainnet july 1. B20 mainnet july 8. one week apart, both laying rails for the same thing.
a base token would be the biggest retail wealth event of the cycle. a new class of rich onchain wallets, old ones waking up, normies crawling back the second "base printed" hits their group chats.
that liquidity doesn't retire, it looks for the next trade.
and post-airdrop money always walks the same ladder: dump some, rotate majors, farm, memes, then something that feels more adult.
robinhood just shipped the adult option. NVDA and TSLA as collateral, 24/7, inside an app normies already have on their phones.
coinbase wakes retail up. robinhood is standing right there with something to sell them.
maybe the whole robinhood arc has nothing to do with base at all. maybe they just executed a year-old roadmap and the window opened around them.
but wall street holds COIN and HOOD as one bet on finance moving onchain, and both companies started laying rails for the same moment at the same time.
the bitstamp deal fits the same picture: licenses first, then own chain, then tokenized stocks, then defi rails. nobody collects that stack to add two more coins to an app.
why would any of this actually hurt base? because eth vs sol is a religion war. evm vs evm is nothing.
trenchers bridge in minutes, builders redeploy in a day. there is no switching cost, only reasons.
just look at bankr and virtuals. two flagship base projects, both added robinhood chain support within days. no drama, just a new chain in the dropdown.
and base picked a bad year to slow down. creator coins meta fizzled, ai agents barely got any support while they were the hottest meta in crypto.
baseapp never found its pmf and feels like it exists for optics, not for onboarding anyone. the ecosystem spotlight kept landing on stuff like o1 exchange.
loyalty in evm land is a bridge transaction.
pure shizo, zero evidence, but the symmetry is funny: coinbase trades as COIN and incubates BASE token. robinhood trades as HOOD. ROBIN completes the pair.
do with that what you want.
to be fair to the other side: robinhood planned this chain for over a year, a base token still has no date and might not even happen this cycle.
and robinhood chain tvl is tiny for now. positioning only pays if liquidity actually shows up.
base will be fine. coinbase isn't going anywhere and neither is the money behind it.
and i'm saying all this with love. base is the main reason i even stayed onchain these past couple of years.
but for the first time base has an evm competitor with a cleaner story for normie capital, and its answer so far is "we're exploring".
B20 goes live soon. let's see what base does with it.
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Think @RobinhoodCrypto will have runners
The chain launched as a surprise to most
Should go more like Base than Monad
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More excited by @RobinhoodCrypto than I was for Monad or MegaETH
I actually bridged this time 🏹
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