I’ve been looking into Base lately, and it’s actually pretty interesting.
One of the hardest things for any new chain is getting people to actually use it. Airdrops and points can bring users in, but a lot of them disappear once the incentives are gone.
Base already has Coinbase behind it.
So I’m less interested in how fast Base is or how much TVL it has, and more interested in whether Coinbase can naturally bring its users onchain.
Why did I suddenly start caring about Base?
Don’t ask.
Base has to make it.
For the sake of my wallet balance.
#Base
One of the hardest things for any new chain is getting people to actually use it. Airdrops and points can bring users in, but a lot of them disappear once the incentives are gone.
Base already has Coinbase behind it.
So I’m less interested in how fast Base is or how much TVL it has, and more interested in whether Coinbase can naturally bring its users onchain.
Why did I suddenly start caring about Base?
Don’t ask.
Base has to make it.
For the sake of my wallet balance.
#Base
The more I learn about $BASELINE, the more attached I get to this stupid coin. 🤣
It literally started because a Korean beauty creator pronounced “Vaseline” like “Baseline.” The video blew up, Vaseline joined the joke and even changed their name and pfp to Baseline for a while.
Then CT found it.
And of course, right there in the name was “Base.”
It was basically a Base meme created by accident, completely outside of crypto. You couldn’t really ask for something more organic than that.
Then people found out about the 20% dev allocation and the whole thing basically fell apart. The dev had apparently already sold and left early, but the damage was done. Everyone assumed the worst, people dumped, and what looked like a genuinely good Base meme suddenly became another dead chart.
I thought that was probably the end of it.
But apparently some holders had other plans.
Masil bought 1M $BASELINE with his own money and burned it, then started asking some of the bigger holders if they’d be willing to burn part of their bags too.
And somehow, people actually started doing it.
There’s no real team behind this trying to save the chart. No big announcement coming. Just a few holders who watched their meme get completely destroyed and decided they weren’t ready to let it die yet.
Maybe I’m way too emotionally invested at this point, but I really like that.
Baseline was born from a random internet accident, got absolutely murdered by FUD, and now the people left holding it are trying to piece it back together themselves.
I don’t know if they’ll succeed.
But I really hope they do.
The story got to me enough that I ended up buying a small bag too.
#Base
It literally started because a Korean beauty creator pronounced “Vaseline” like “Baseline.” The video blew up, Vaseline joined the joke and even changed their name and pfp to Baseline for a while.
Then CT found it.
And of course, right there in the name was “Base.”
It was basically a Base meme created by accident, completely outside of crypto. You couldn’t really ask for something more organic than that.
Then people found out about the 20% dev allocation and the whole thing basically fell apart. The dev had apparently already sold and left early, but the damage was done. Everyone assumed the worst, people dumped, and what looked like a genuinely good Base meme suddenly became another dead chart.
I thought that was probably the end of it.
But apparently some holders had other plans.
Masil bought 1M $BASELINE with his own money and burned it, then started asking some of the bigger holders if they’d be willing to burn part of their bags too.
And somehow, people actually started doing it.
There’s no real team behind this trying to save the chart. No big announcement coming. Just a few holders who watched their meme get completely destroyed and decided they weren’t ready to let it die yet.
Maybe I’m way too emotionally invested at this point, but I really like that.
Baseline was born from a random internet accident, got absolutely murdered by FUD, and now the people left holding it are trying to piece it back together themselves.
I don’t know if they’ll succeed.
But I really hope they do.
The story got to me enough that I ended up buying a small bag too.
#Base
Closed my $BASELINE position.
I thought about keeping a little as a souvenir because I really liked the story behind it, but ended up selling everything.
Base just doesn’t seem interested in memecoins. No point blaming them for it. Better to pay attention to what the foundation actually cares about.
Took about an -80% loss on this one 🫠
#Base
I thought about keeping a little as a souvenir because I really liked the story behind it, but ended up selling everything.
Base just doesn’t seem interested in memecoins. No point blaming them for it. Better to pay attention to what the foundation actually cares about.
Took about an -80% loss on this one 🫠
#Base
$CRCL at $100?
Wait, is this another win for Base?
There’s a funny little tradition in Korean crypto.
When KOLs or traders make good money on a trade, they sometimes share the win with their community by giving out coffee.
Today, a Korean KOL opened a chat for 100 people and gave everyone a Paik’s Coffee to celebrate $CRCL hitting $100 ☕️
That’s one nice thing about a bull market. Even if I’m not making money, someone else is — and sometimes I get a little piece of their win.
So I happily took my coffee and went to check his latest post…
Wait… this guy…
Isn’t this a top signal? 😨😨😨
Wait, is this another win for Base?
There’s a funny little tradition in Korean crypto.
When KOLs or traders make good money on a trade, they sometimes share the win with their community by giving out coffee.
Today, a Korean KOL opened a chat for 100 people and gave everyone a Paik’s Coffee to celebrate $CRCL hitting $100 ☕️
That’s one nice thing about a bull market. Even if I’m not making money, someone else is — and sometimes I get a little piece of their win.
So I happily took my coffee and went to check his latest post…
Wait… this guy…
Isn’t this a top signal? 😨😨😨
Nexon, one of Korea’s biggest game companies, just dropped the traditional coding test from its new game programmer hiring process and replaced it with an AI-based assessment.
Baekjoon, the platform Korean devs spent years grinding for coding interviews — where being “Gold” or “Silver” was basically part of the developer vocabulary — also shut down this year.
The whole industry is changing in real time.
And in the middle of all this, you found someone at a cafe manually coding React?
Seriously?
Baekjoon, the platform Korean devs spent years grinding for coding interviews — where being “Gold” or “Silver” was basically part of the developer vocabulary — also shut down this year.
The whole industry is changing in real time.
And in the middle of all this, you found someone at a cafe manually coding React?
Seriously?
Do you guys know Lotte World in Korea?
It’s one of Seoul’s most iconic theme parks. There’s also a fun culture here where even adults rent Korean school uniforms and spend the day there feeling like students again.
MemeCore is taking over the entire park on September 30 during KBW.
And I mean the entire day. From morning until midnight. Regular ticket holders can’t even enter that day.
That’s what makes this kinda crazy.
Full-day private takeovers of Lotte World are extremely rare. This isn’t the kind of place you casually rent for a crypto side event.
In the past, companies that pulled this off were major Korean corporations or huge IPs like MapleStory.
And now MemeCore, a crypto project, is doing it during KBW.
They must've spent a lot of money on this.
Let me in. I wanna wear a school uniform and play at Lotte World too.
It’s one of Seoul’s most iconic theme parks. There’s also a fun culture here where even adults rent Korean school uniforms and spend the day there feeling like students again.
MemeCore is taking over the entire park on September 30 during KBW.
And I mean the entire day. From morning until midnight. Regular ticket holders can’t even enter that day.
That’s what makes this kinda crazy.
Full-day private takeovers of Lotte World are extremely rare. This isn’t the kind of place you casually rent for a crypto side event.
In the past, companies that pulled this off were major Korean corporations or huge IPs like MapleStory.
And now MemeCore, a crypto project, is doing it during KBW.
They must've spent a lot of money on this.
Let me in. I wanna wear a school uniform and play at Lotte World too.
I’ve been building an arbitrage bot lately.
Arbitrage is one of those things where the more people you tell exactly how you make money, the smaller your own piece of the pie gets. So obviously, I can’t share everything I’m doing.
But from what I’m seeing, there are still opportunities to make money in crypto arbitrage.
I think it’s worth practicing building your own bots with vibe coding, even if you’re starting from scratch.
Maybe the hardest part is just knowing that a path exists.
Once you know there’s a path, finding your own way with an AI agent might be easier than you think.
I’m also thinking about doing something like a $500 challenge and sharing my trading journal along the way.
Do your own build. Good luck.
Arbitrage is one of those things where the more people you tell exactly how you make money, the smaller your own piece of the pie gets. So obviously, I can’t share everything I’m doing.
But from what I’m seeing, there are still opportunities to make money in crypto arbitrage.
I think it’s worth practicing building your own bots with vibe coding, even if you’re starting from scratch.
Maybe the hardest part is just knowing that a path exists.
Once you know there’s a path, finding your own way with an AI agent might be easier than you think.
I’m also thinking about doing something like a $500 challenge and sharing my trading journal along the way.
Do your own build. Good luck.
Who’s coming to KBW?
I’m going to KBW too!
I was gifted a $699 ticket!!!
Huge thanks to @0ooooo0 (TG channel) !
Ivan is a KOL who creates content around crypto research and vibe coding. His posts are mostly in Korean, but there’s a lot of genuinely useful stuff there, so definitely give him a follow!
Anyways, see you at Walkerhill!!!
I’m going to KBW too!
I was gifted a $699 ticket!!!
Huge thanks to @0ooooo0 (TG channel) !
Ivan is a KOL who creates content around crypto research and vibe coding. His posts are mostly in Korean, but there’s a lot of genuinely useful stuff there, so definitely give him a follow!
Anyways, see you at Walkerhill!!!