Brian (BRIAN)

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 definitely wrong.

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this guy @0xkekov bought base:0xb2000000000000000000007bf6d5cbb0e24cb301 when it’s trading at market cap of sub $1 million and sold it for $130 only

he booked 192% profits and closed the position of base:0xb2000000000000000000007bf6d5cbb0e24cb301

now , base:0xb2000000000000000000007bf6d5cbb0e24cb301 is up by 5971% but he not even holded his position for 1 day

but want to hit 10000x , lmao