Ian Tan

One of the most hardworking and driven person I know. All the best! @goheesheng !

We have so many great products like @Raflux_io building on @base Anyone needs more support?

Time to build on @base. The financial world is coming onchain. Reach out and tell me how can I help. youtube.com/shorts/jx3qkrc… @XenBH @baseapac @Nibel_eth

@Raflux_io A only if it only contains the card and nothing else

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Base remains committed to supporting builders

Incredible to celebrate the 14th anniversary of @coinbase’s founding today. It’s extra special to have Clarity pass through the Senate Banking Committee on a bipartisan vote. So many good memories and so much to look forward to! Coinbase has endurance.

Combining gaming, apps and AI @uptopia_xyz is building the GameAI Marketplace on Base Our app of the week!

Incubate winners Accelerate them That’s @base batches

virtuals protocol doing $39.5m in annual revenue at $800m FDV. 20x multiple. revenue is USDC fees from 47,000 AI agents paying $840/year for wallets, visa cards, and identity infrastructure. not token dependent. agent count went from 5,000 to 47,000 in one quarter. if they hit 200k agents by year end at current ARPU that's $168m revenue on an $800m market cap. sub-5x forward revenue for 9x quarterly growth. the first crypto project where the business model works even if the token goes to zero. track monthly agent registrations, that's your signal

The crypto market structure bill has PASSED the Senate Banking Committee with a bi-partisan vote! Historic day for crypto and for the future of digital assets in America. Grateful for the countless hours from lawmakers and staff to strengthen this legislation. Big improvement from where we were in January on rewards, tokenization, DeFi, and CFTC authority. I'm proud we stood up for our customers in that moment, and the bill is better because of it. Looking forward to a bipartisan law that cements the US as the world's crypto capital. Let's get CLARITY done.

Base is the chain for builders @retrimentum from @upshot_cards is one of the best

Tell me better place than @base Builder’s Loft at NS The place where you can build, vibe with based builders and connect directly with Base team. Shout out to @donofbase @Nibel_eth Pleasure to meet with you guys Time to cook and lets onboard everyone to Base together! 🚀

@MonkOnCt @opengotchi @Nibel_eth @baseapac @base @BasedIndia @UnitreeRobotics Well done!

How it started vs How it's going. @opengotchi started as a weekend project where we thought it'd be soo cool to build an AI tamagotchi using an ESP32 we had lying around. We created an ugly POC with some jumper cables, a breadboard, a display and five buttons we labeled with sticky notes. We posted a video of it online thinking a few friends might find it interesting. It went viral. So we did the only reasonable thing and decided to actually build it, even though honestly none of us really knew what scaling something like this was supposed to look like. Two months later, we're in Kuala Lumpur, flown out and hosted for a full month by @virtuals_io, and we've spent the last few days pitching the thing we hacked together in our rooms to people we used to read about on Twitter!! We pitched to @balajis, to @ethermage , co-founder @virtuals_io . To Hassan Ahmed, @coinbase Country Director. To @theshikhai , co-founder of @LongHashVC . And to investors from @base, from @NetworkSchool_, and honestly, in rooms we never thought of being in. None of this happens without @DonJohnsonSays, @IntoPurpleMoon, @virtuals_io, @base & the @baseapac team, who somehow looked at four guys with a tamagotchi made of cables and decided to bet on us anyway. Thank you, sincerely. We don't take this for granted, and we never will. And to my team @virgin_hunter69 , @CaptainCodeOnX , @Sarv_shaktiman , I just don't have enough words to describe this group. I feel lucky I get be be a part of this team, from college hostel bakchodi to winning 45+ hackathons, nothing seems impossible with this bunch. If you'd shown us picture 2,3 & 4 the day we took picture 1, we wouldn't have believed you. Honestly, some days we still don't. That ugly POC is still with us. It always will be...

I’ve been saying this for years, Malaysia is quietly becoming the regional hub for regional and global business due to Malaysias lower cost of talent that is equally competitive to Singapore Malaysia Boleh 😬

$50m has now been transacted on x402 (85% on Base)

Interesting how many of us ex-tradfi guys are facing a full-circle moment - Left tradfi because it was boring and slow - Entered crypto because we saw great potential and rapid innovation - A few major crashes later, crypto takes on proper structure with clearer regulation - Find ourselves building up the exact same businesses we used to do, but now onchain. Higher efficiency, transparency, ownership, and much lower costs Man proposes, God disposes 人算不如天算

One of the more interesting shifts happening in crypto is that people are starting to revisit market structure itself - not just assets, apps, or scaling. For years, the industry focused on settlement: faster chains, cheaper blockspace, better finality. that work mattered. but the actual exchange layer still largely inherited design assumptions from early crypto: centralized matching, opaque sequencing, uneven access, and infrastructure optimized more like consumer internet products than financial systems. If crypto is serious about becoming the foundation for global capital markets, then execution quality becomes a first-order problem. latency, sequencing fairness, deterministic behavior, physical infrastructure - these things sound niche until you realize they directly shape liquidity formation and price discovery. That’s why blink.trade stands out. @moonshiesty and the team are building toward a much more ambitious model for crypto exchanges: exchange-grade execution paired with transparent on-chain settlement. not just “better UX for trading,” but an attempt to rethink what internet-native market infrastructure should actually look like. Feels directionally important for where crypto eventually goes.

sending money globally is now free

"If you have a vision of building something, get off your ass and actually do it... Then do whatever it takes to turn that idea into something everyone can use and enjoy." @Retrimentum from @upshot_cards, building on Base.

In my opinion general purpose chains, like Base, with strong ecosystems and strong markets are actually best positioned to win on payments also. That's because payments don't exist in isolation. Someone receives a payment and wants to save it, lend it, swap it, earn yield on it. That requires markets and apps - which require liquidity, capital and users.