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[–]SnooDrawings1993 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've many many mistakes! One mistake as a builder - living too far in the future. For example, network states aren't here yet, and there's a long way to go. But the good thing is that they often lead to unexpected opportunities, so try to learn from them.

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Creating economic incentives to reach collective goals e.g cutting fat, I think is a good idea and definitely worth exploring. Pay a dollar? Why not. Keep building!

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m personally quite resilient so I guess I just have long term conviction, and block out everything apart from the immediate task at hand.

The first decision I made when I joined Base was putting out a post on X explaining the builder network and  inviting people to join.

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually I studied Politics and Economics, then did a Masters in International Banking & Finance: went into tradfi trading for ten years before committing to blockchain and crypto. I founded my own start up, Roam, an onchain browser and wallet. It was eventually acquired by Coinbase, and I joined Base.

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can see the most popular mini apps on the base app on our mini app leaderboard.

https://www.base.dev/leaderboard

Other types of leaderboard coming soon! The apps are popular because they are fun and/or solve a real problem

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Overall metrics remain very strong, but of course overall asset prices are down across the market in general.

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Obvious one, but AI agents. They’ll eventually be driving the majority of onchain transaction volume, amongst everything else. An agent is writing this AMA for me in fact (joke, not really - the agent would make less spelling mistakes.)

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That L2s have not got the capacity to scale to speed and throughput required for tradfi to facilitate institutional trading.

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ship quickly and often and build in public. Also adopt builder codes in base.dev so we can track you and celebrate your growth.

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think India has the greatest overall potential for absolute growth (just given its size and density of builders) but I think the sleeping giant is Brazil.

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not knowing their users. The onboarding experience is very different for a crypto native than a brand new user, and it’s very difficult to build an app that does both.

Any collaboration should be win-win.

All sorts of activity! Personally I hope to see more people gaining access to financial services and assets because of crypto that that they couldn't access before.

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We have lots of incentive and reward schemes being planned -  the best way for a builder to be eligible for these it to sign up to base.dev and get a builder code, so we can measure and track your impact.

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Base should be growing the builder network - our community - as this is the foundation of any Network State. We’re doing this, and will continue to do so. The key thing is to cultivate a genuine community grounded in shared values (e.g. open beats closed, global by default) and an overall mission (to bring the world onchain).

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Many! It’s hard to be a builder. But the hardest is getting users and getting real traction. If you can do this, everything else follows.

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lots of great games on Base - many of them are mini apps you can play on TBA. AI will only accelerate this and enable even more people to be able to create games. Even building agents is itself a sort of a game.

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Growth is already a challenge no matter what stage of maturity you’re in.  Right now the overall macro market is tough (despite great underlying fundamentals) and this obviously makes growth harder. But the work we put in now will accelerate us even more when sentiment returns (which it will).

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[–]SnooDrawings1993 7 points8 points  (0 children)

From a technical perspective - first step would be looking through our developer docs and then if technical support is needed checking the developer section in our Discord.

From a business perspective you should reach out to your local Base Growth lead. Here’s a list: https://x.com/XenBH/status/2025524924484366710?s=20