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@RobinhoodApp why not both?

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@alexmccurryo @Tofu_CTO did someone say lol? $lolcat 0x9e4c1c7025cbe98af0cc0e9936b0c249737ea599

@Tofu_CTO lol

Soccer over, back to memes.

@StarPlatinum_ imagine, 50 eth compressed into a single ethereum, it is the most dense chunk of eth on base

If you are having a bad day today Just remember a trader bought 50 ETH ($88,000) into $BRIAN at ATH Now it’s worth 1.5 ETH ($3,000)

0x9e4c1c7025cbe98af0cc0e9936b0c249737ea599 I wonder what would be a fair mcap for this precious $lolcat meme? not 20k for sure... this is ancient bitcoin forum lore mixed with original 4chan vibes

@UID_ I worked hard for two hours on this math problem and this other guy did it in 1 minute, and in the end I got a worse score. Fuck capitalism.

Tim Hofman denkt dat zijn moeder in de zorg net zo hard werkt als Elon Musk. Dit valt niet eens meer in de categorie desinformatie. Dit is hallucinatie. De man denkt dus dat zijn moeder uit de zorg morgen raketten met tandenstokers gaat vangen. Cancel deze man, serieus gevaar.

@Allesopdemotor these millennial dutch kids can be shickingly stupid. most of them coming from rich parents, and just squandering away the wealth of the family, trading it for morality points and approval

Het nieuwe #communisme duldt geen slimme mensen meer die veel geld kunnen verdienen.

@0xDeployer lol I take it back! he went for the worst possible way in embracing a meme

@barnabasch doubt it

the random guy that launched $BRIAN coin made $221.31K on the fees. i'm cooked.

@0xDeployer I'd say coinbase listing soon followed by hyperliquid, etc.

@0xDeployer hard to imagine a random guy launched that meme on a coinbase ventures and a16z backed launchpad shortly after robinhood chain steals the spotlight and liquidity from base + vlad comes out with supportive sentiment towards memes

@thehoodstayson 😂😂 indisputable facts from the og @vladtenev

fixed it

@chooserich Congrats!

Update: NO CANCER VISIBLE!! I still have treatment for the coming months BUT this is literally the best outcome you can have!

go hoodies! 😂

Tokenizing everything is a bad idea if it can only fork liquidity. The fragemntation of liquidity across too many chains and across millions of tokens is already a problem. The solution would be a token standard to give the ability to "merge" tokens (weighted based on mcap ratio of course). So loosing tokens could "merge" into bigger, winning tokens if their holders vote for it.

lots of conversations about base over the last week. wanted to share my candid take after a week of listening and a lot of reflection over the last 6 months. first off - in case it’s not obvious, the first quarter of 2026 was a punch in the face. I spent 2024 and 2025 making a two pronged bet to bring base to the world: (1) builders would unlock the next wave of crypto adoption; (2) adoption would be driven by new onchain-native social experiences - creators, content, messaging. imo we made the right bet on builders, but obviously the wrong bet on social. builders did drive the next wave of crypto adoption - prediction markets, perpetuals, stablecoins - but social was not at the center of it. in fact, the entire social side of the market that many of us had been building towards - farcaster, zora, miniapps, and yes, creator coins - disintegrated completely. I was wrong - whether it was timing wrong (is $ansem a creator coin?) or fully wrong, only time will tell, but regardless, i was definitively wrong. the collateral damage was pretty bad! and this year has been an exercise in eating shit. we realized how our focus on social had meant that base had fallen behind in key areas that were now increasingly critical - we had perps (shoutout avantis!) and prediction markets (shoutout limitless!), but both were well behind scaled competitors. and we had a lot of room to improve in unlocking base as a platform for tokenization and payments that really worked for enterprises. people lost confidence, and CT spectators reminded me weekly of all of my mistakes as often as they could. it felt bad man, still feels bad. but if there’s one thing i’ve learned from the last decade of building in this space, it’s that when things feel the worst, the best thing to do is just put your head down and build. so that’s what i’m doing. I refocused my time and attention back to the chain away from the app, started writing code again, shipped a bunch of stuff (azul, beryl, b20, privacy, ledgers) and questioned a bunch of my assumptions: does crypto need social to grow? does base need an app? can base be bigger than coinbase? I thought for a long time that social was the only thing that could drive the sort of viral growth to get crypto to a billion people. unsurprisingly, I now believe that’s wrong. It’s clear that better money is more than enough - we are seeing this live with stablecoins, predictions, perpetuals, tokenization and i only expect it to accelerate. I am now focused on bringing a billion people onchain just by making global finance actually work. on the app, my focus is on building base into the blockchain for global finance. to that end, i’ve handed the base app back to the coinbase mothership, where my now good friend @cobie will be taking it from here to make it the best damn app for onchain you’ve ever seen, including expanding beyond the base ecosystem in ways that tbh i won’t love as the leader of base. it’s incredibly hard to grow a decentralized network inside of a big public corporation. and i feel like much of the discourse on CT over the last week is downstream of this. the following things can be true: (1) base (and i) love memes and (2) brian probably won’t ever bullpost memes on the tl (this activity is illegal once you’re over 40 years of age). it’s weird and we’re working through it as we continue to decentralize base, which has been our commitment from the beginning. we’re going to build base into the blockchain for global finance and do everything we can to be the place that the world’s money settles over the next century. we will surely have formidable competitors (welcome robinhood and stripe!) and people may abandon our cause, but we welcome the competition and believe it’s our duty to win the respect and commitment of those who rally to our banner.  in 2026, this concretely means three things: winning trading, payments, and agents. [continued in the reply]

@RobinhoodApp epic launch! :D it's time to put your $hoodie on

Very crypto of us to launch Robinhood Chain

@benjamincowen @BitPaine I mean… so far it’s pretty much doing exactly what you charted for BTC. People make a fool of themselves hating on you.

@BitPaine Try and keep up. I know your inner degen just can't help but troll me on every rally, but bear markets allow for countertrend rallies. x.com/benjamincowen/…

Ben Cowen in shambles.

@benjamincowen wow, really beautiful... how is this possible?

Bitcoin in 2026 is just a less volatile version of 2018.

@SizeChad 100% + the vlad tenev interview with rick rubin was a great listen. if u're excited about robinhhod chain you should join the hoodies @0FJAKE @thehoodstayson

Robinhood already has the users. It already has the stock traders. It already has the brand trust. Now it has the chain too. Robinhood wins.

@benjamincowen the nerves got to them

Haaland was wide open, not sure why his teammate didn’t pass it to him

@cometwtf looks like a honeypot, shouldn't promote it

You guys just sent another Robinhood coin above $20M?? hoodie-2:native ✍️

@Trezor @bubonik_X @SolanaCZE exciting tech!

@bubonik_X @SolanaCZE Awesome people, building awesome stuff! 🙌🧡

Gm guys, here a more pic from last events. Thanks again to @SolanaCZE and @Trezor for giving me the chance to speak and explain what I do and why. It’s a real boost to keep developing the project further.