nickprince.eth 🛡 @Nick_Prince12 Twitter profile

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4 years

In crypto we've all heard the old adage "institutions are coming" First hand experience tells me they are, but it's complicated. This piece is my attempt to explain why. Special thanks to @nic__carter @jdorman81 @APompliano @riabhutoria @Anthony_Emtman

Where are the Institutional Investors in Crypto? Demystifying the ever-elusive wall of capital

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nickprince.eth 🛡

@Nick_Prince12

2 months

Coinbase's Smart Wallet now supports gasless USDC sends on Base 🚀 free, instant, global payments will materially increase economic freedom in the world this mission got me into crypto. job's not finished but exciting to see progress @CoinbaseWallet @CoinbaseDev @base

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@Nick_Prince12

2 years

While the trolls rejoiced in their echo chamber, @coinbase was quietly building Insto and Wallet products amazing enough for @BlackRock and @Meta to integrate. Craziest part is we’re [checks notes] just getting started 🚀

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@Nick_Prince12

2 years

Been in crypto 6 yrs w/o being scammed. That almost changed today with the fake Arbitrum airdrop.. Thankfully the txn simulator from @CoinbaseWallet saved me. Protecting users with features like this is what it means to build "most trusted" products 🙏

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@Nick_Prince12

4 years

"The next world reserve currency will be a crypto" - Jim Bianco *caveat that he's unsure if it exists yet. @biancoresearch would love for you to expand on this. Did you mean an SDR type asset, or a true non-sovereign/decentralized currency. If the latter, why not BTC?

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@Nick_Prince12

2 years

Coinbase cares about Ethereum and values decentralization. Demand from us that we continue to prove it. Hold us accountable.

Rocket Pool Intern

@RP_Intern

2 years

Rocket Pool 🧡 Coinbase Ventures

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@Nick_Prince12

1 year

What happens next will define the future of crypto in America. I work on staking at @coinbase and there’s nowhere I’d rather be 🫡🛡️

Brian Armstrong

@brian_armstrong

1 year

1/ Today Coinbase received a Wells notice from the SEC focused on staking and asset listings. A Wells notice typically precedes an enforcement action.

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@Nick_Prince12

5 years

Had a blast today with @MarkYusko and @APompliano explaining the future of #bitcoin and #blockchain to my Board. Education is the first step to adoption. Onwards 🚀

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@Nick_Prince12

2 years

Coinbase has always been the reg heat shield of the industry. Good thing we have an insane amount of talent on our Policy team 💪 SEC should propose rules and allow the public to comment ✅ Instead they drop monologue op-eds via approved media outlets ❌ Sad.

Hermine Wong

@herminewong_xyz

2 years

1/ With all due respect Chair @GaryGensler , regulation by op-ed still is not regulation. Should we conclude that based on 1 instance of crypto lending, “the SEC Treats Crypto Like the Rest of the Capital Markets?” To extend this reasoning to cars (the op-ed's own analogy)...

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@Nick_Prince12

5 years

The new normal: “Major depositors have asked to park their physical cash in vaults—where it avoids incurring neg. rates” One couldn’t conceive a better backdrop for the adoption of a scarce, non-sovereign currency/store of value #btc #crypto

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@Nick_Prince12

5 months

hosting a meetup for ft frens in denver on saturday. hmu if you'd like to join. will be riff'ing on v2 and the future of onchain social

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@friendtech

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conferences are great places to make new friends

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@Nick_Prince12

5 years

US stocks down significantly on trade war rhetoric while $btc is up 6%. Capital flight from HK could be a factor as well. If this negative correlation continues, institutions will be hard-pressed not to make an allocation.

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@Nick_Prince12

5 years

With ~2 billion users #FB WILL become the largest financial services and crypto company overnight with the launch of their #StableCoin Credit to @APompliano who has been beating this drum for some time now 🥁

The Wall Street Journal

@WSJ

5 years

Facebook is seeking to launch a cryptocurrency-based payments system. The effort threatens to upend the lucrative plumbing of e-commerce.

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@Nick_Prince12

7 months

updated mission at @base : To build a global onchain economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom below are our '24 priorities and i'm always available to chat :)

Jesse Pollak (jesse.xyz) 🛡️

@jessepollak

7 months

just shared @base 's 2024 mission. top priorities: 1. accelerating decentralization 2. driving down fees across the board 3. making smart wallets the default 4. making it dead simple to on and offramp 5. bringing @coinbase (and others) onchain 6. making the superchain seamless

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@Nick_Prince12

3 years

- Dalio owns BTC and prefers it to bonds - CB hires fmr Goldman Sachs Global Co-Head of Gov. Affairs as Chief Policy Officer - WSJ releases research on DEXs, uttering the word "Uniswap" for the first time (finally) We needed this newsflow today 🥲

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@Nick_Prince12

2 years

Coinbase quarterly investor letter is underrated 👥 103M+ verified users 🇺🇸 100+ countries 🛠 broad portfolio of products No transparent company has a more complete view of crypto’s adoption into mainstream society

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@Nick_Prince12

2 years

Need to evacuate funds from Solana because Phantom wallets are getting drained? Worried about trusting a bridge right now? @coinbase has your back. Instantly and effortlessly transfer USDC (SPL) to your account. Withdraw back to Solana when the coast is clear 🤝

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@Nick_Prince12

2 years

Anyone who’s worked with @LukeYoungblood knows he’s a force of nature. Thrilled to support him and the stellar Moonwell team as they build a best-in-class borrow/lend UX on Moonbeam 🌕

Lunar Technology Foundation

@LunarTechFdn

2 years

We're pleased to announce Coinbase Ventures as a participant in the private round for @MoonwellDeFi Artemis!

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@Nick_Prince12

9 months

excited to continue bringing coinbase onchain allowing our 100M+ users to bring that part of their offchain identity onto Base seemed like a good place to start we're leveraging the EAS open standard to ensure our verifications are public and composable still early days for

Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️

@CoinbaseDev

9 months

Introducing Coinbase verifications – Users can attest to account and country credentials onchain, all verified by Coinbase, now live for our 100M+ users at

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@Nick_Prince12

9 months

wow @icebreaker_xyz integrated Coinbase Verifications only two days after our announcing composability was a key reason we chose to build on an open standard like @eas_eth . cool to see it already being leveraged by other DiD products 🤝

Icebreaker

@icebreaker_xyz

9 months

Coinbase verified account is now live along with our first @receiptsxyz integration. You can import yours if you’ve made at least 1 connection and then navigate to the Proofs page.

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@Nick_Prince12

9 months

hard to overstate the significance of the world’s 2nd largest pension fund (~$750B) investing in crypto predicted this in ‘20 but also noted why it would take a while (based off my own experience trying to invest in crypto at a fund)

CoinDesk

@CoinDesk

9 months

South Korea’s pension fund snapped up 282,673 @coinbase shares at an average price of $70.5 in the third quarter, achieving a 40% profit from the investment, according to a report. By @godbole17 .

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@Nick_Prince12

7 months

historic also poetic that hal’s legendary tweet was 15 years ago on the dot 🥹 i fucking love btc, satoshi, hal and this industry. changing the world one day at a time.

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@Nick_Prince12

4 months

MASSIVE win for economic freedom the Court dismissed the claim around self-custodial wallets in our SEC case our job isn’t finished (not even close) but important to celebrate wins along the way 👏

Brian Armstrong

@brian_armstrong

4 months

Great progress on the SEC case - and huge win for self-custodial wallets. This ensures the onchain ecosystem will continue to innovate and create economic freedom around the world. We'll continue fighting for your right to use crypto, and to get clarity around the rules, until

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@Nick_Prince12

5 years

My roomate who knows nothing about crypto or finance bought #btc today through his newly downloaded #robinhood app. Forget $10k, looks like #FOMO has arrived at $7k (and with much easier on-ramps than ‘17)

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@Nick_Prince12

5 years

Just landed in SF and couldn’t help but notice this beauty @muneeb

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@Nick_Prince12

2 months

builders continuing to build years ago we backed both @MoonwellDeFi and @MorphoLabs out of CB Ventures - thesis being they were the top teams building money markets onchain epic to see them innovating and composing with one another on Base 🔵🌜🦋🌛🔵

LukeYoungblood.eth 🛡️

@LukeYoungblood

2 months

On June 18th, 2024, a beautiful blue butterfly 🦋 flapped its wings, setting off a chain reaction that would transform the global economy forever. This event paved the way for a brighter future, empowering everyone, everywhere to benefit from onchain finance. 🧵 🌜🦋🌛

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@Nick_Prince12

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unapologetically demanding excellence motivates the right people and weeds out the rest most dangerous mistake Coinbase ever made was allowing its culture to become too ambiguous a few years back. wasn’t fair to anyone, and it’s great to see how open and direct we’ve been since

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@brian_armstrong

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Talent Density at @Coinbase

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@Nick_Prince12

5 months

bullish on racer reinventing onchain social (again) with @friendtech v2 as someone who never left, it’s clear attention and $ are returning in anticipation

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@Nick_Prince12

1 year

Good chance we look back on the @eigenlayer whitepaper as a watershed moment for both Ethereum and blockchains broadly Keep building @sreeramkannan 🫡

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@Nick_Prince12

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Base may be the most visible but there are so many teams across Coinbase working to bring the world onchain From interns to Brian, and PED to XFN, literally so many people learning and hustling to ship crypto-forward products Company has never felt more productive and

Derek Chiang

@decentrek

2 months

I'm usually very meh on big companies but I gotta say the @base team is really something else. Capabilities, Magic Spend, Keyspace... these are all amazing innovations on their own and the @base team is pumping them out all at the same time Can't be more bullish about AA 🫡

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@Nick_Prince12

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Brian has done so much for our industry. 11+ years into his founder journey and still showing up every day to help where he’s needed most been at Coinbase ~4yrs now in large part due to his mission-driven leadership crypto needs more Brians

Based Beginnings

"Based Beginnings" captures the transformative journey of Coinbase led by visionary CEO Brian Armstrong, as he forges a path over a decade of innovation. From the early origins of Coinbase, through...

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@Nick_Prince12

4 years

"Bitcoin does not waste energy — it consumes energy waste" @_ConnerBrown_ wrote the brilliant piece I lazily tried to communicate in a tweet. Would be great to pressure test these ideas with an energy sector expert (anyone?)

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@Nick_Prince12

4 years

US energy sector: 1. employs 5% of America 2. accounts for 13% of the HY bond market 3. is highly levered & structured around oil being $50 (not $20) This alone is a crisis within a crisis. Potential to bring BTC mining to the States though (w/ capex)

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@Nick_Prince12

1 year

Banning everyday Americans from staking isn’t consumer protection. It’s financial oppression, imposed by those in power, which is the oldest and most important problem crypto aims to solve. The SEC is either oblivious to this, or worse

Brian Armstrong

@brian_armstrong

1 year

1/ We're hearing rumors that the SEC would like to get rid of crypto staking in the U.S. for retail customers. I hope that's not the case as I believe it would be a terrible path for the U.S. if that was allowed to happen.

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@Nick_Prince12

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dismissed @cryptopunksnfts 6yrs ago, sidelined as I came to understand the role of digital identity and punks within that context that changed today with 3825 🫂

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@Nick_Prince12

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@APompliano More people probably got this notification than there are customers at CB

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@Nick_Prince12

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just donated USDC to @DeatonforSenate ‘s campaign super easy flow from CB Commerce. can’t let ppl like Liz Warren hold this tech back from the world Update the System and consider supporting John however you can

John E Deaton

@JohnEDeaton1

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🚨BIG NEWS: Our campaign is now accepting donations made in cryptocurrency. I hope you will chip in and support our efforts to retire Elizabeth Warren. Please spread the word.

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@Nick_Prince12

1 year

On Wednesday at 3:27pm PT @Ethereum will undergo its long awaited Shapella upgrade 🎉 We’ve been doing a lot across @coinbase to promptly deliver unstaking to our users. Here’s what you need to know as April 12th approaches 🧵

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@Nick_Prince12

1 year

Congrats to @sreeramkannan and the @eigenlayer team on stage 1 mainnet deployment 👏 Also love to see the Day 1 support for cbETH 🛡️

EigenLayer World Builders

EigenLayer World Builders is a commemorative NFT that celebrates the deployment of the EigenLayer protocol on Ethereum Mainnet. World Building The endgame blossoms: new worlds arise. A shining age of...

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@Nick_Prince12

5 months

faces will melt

friend.tech

@friendtech

5 months

friendtech v2 is launching the week after 420

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@Nick_Prince12

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CB smart wallet users get 🎣 free fishing rod (worth $25) 📷 100 kibble all 100% gasless (powered by CB paymaster)

Cat Town

@CatTownBase

2 months

🎣🐱 Cat Town x ( @CoinbaseWallet - Smart Wallet Fishing is LIVE! 🐱🎣 Hey Cat Town community! Our exciting Smart Wallet Fishing event with Coinbase has officially started at ! 🚀🎉 Join us this weekend for a unique opportunity to reel in a limited-time

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@Nick_Prince12

2 years

Mission-driven founders >

Brian Armstrong

@brian_armstrong

2 years

@LefterisJP @LidoFinance @coinbase @krakenfx @stakedus @BitcoinSuisseAG It's a hypothetical we hopefully won't actually face. But if we did we'd go with B i think. Got to focus on the bigger picture. There may be some better option (C) or a legal challenge as well that could help reach a better outcome.

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@Nick_Prince12

1 year

users can now unstake their ETH Proud of the team for shipping this so quickly 🚀

Coinbase 🛡️

@coinbase

1 year

🥳🎉 The Shapella Upgrade is complete. Congratulations to the @Ethereum community! ETH unstaking is now enabled on .

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@Nick_Prince12

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it's just "apps" we're building apps for people to use over the past few decades many apps came online and it made them more useful today apps are coming onchain because it makes them more useful it's that simple

Jesse Pollak (jesse.xyz) 🛡️

@jessepollak

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as of today, it's just "apps" on @CoinbaseWallet it was dApps, then dapps but the reality is simple: we're building world-class apps, they just use onchain to be 10x better, 10x cheaper, & 10x more accessible to everyone. let's show the world how incredible onchain apps are.

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@Nick_Prince12

5 years

One thing Republicans and Democrats have in common these days: delight in sharing a free lunch on the tab of my and future generations #MMT here we come. @EpsilonTheory

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@Nick_Prince12

5 years

@APompliano #PrimeDayDeals

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@Nick_Prince12

2 years

Today Coinbase launched cbETH - our liquid staking ETH token 💧 Competition is healthy! Having strong solutions with differentiated qualities helps to maximize censorship resistance + decentralization Check out our whitepaper to learn more 👇

Coinbase Assets 🛡️

@CoinbaseAssets

2 years

We published a white paper to provide in-depth details on the importance, technology, benefits and risks involved with cbETH. Read the cbETH white paper here:

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@Nick_Prince12

4 years

BTC hit $500B today and will likely become a Trillion dollar asset this cycle. That’s when the sovereign wealth funds and calpers of the world start their diligence. We’re still so early.

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@Nick_Prince12

4 months

friendtech and farcaster are more valuable together than siloed, yet we haven't seen much composability between the two this can and should start with the overlapping communities join me in the friendtech-v2 channel if you'd like to help make this happen

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@Nick_Prince12

9 months

Base

@base

9 months

Are you building onchain and tired of dealing with gas in your testnet environment? We’ve got you 🔵 Deploy on Base Goerli and we’ll sponsor your transactions. Just use a 4337 smart account, integrate our paymaster, and we’ll take it from there

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@Nick_Prince12

4 months

love this timeline of brian and base god having a good laugh base is for everyone keep building @tybasegod

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@Nick_Prince12

1 year

y’all really letting me post up here? we’re entering THE defining period for crypto policy in America. this is the fight we’ve always known was coming. best part is we can win. don’t regret not doing more. stand with crypto 🛡️

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@Nick_Prince12

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🔵

Coinbase 🛡️

@coinbase

1 year

🔵 2.23.23

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@Nick_Prince12

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yo @0xRacerAlt @shrimppepe me and my frens are chatting product improvements for @friendtech lmk if/how I can help make any of this happen 🙂

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@Nick_Prince12

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i believe in racer

Jesse Pollak (jesse.xyz) 🛡️

@jessepollak

5 months

i believe in racer

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@Nick_Prince12

4 months

DeFi is worth fighting for Mad respect for @haydenzadams keeping uniswap labs in NYC all these years, and for staying now America cannot afford to offshore crypto And builders won’t let it happen 🦄🔵

Hayden Adams 🦄

@haydenzadams

4 months

Today @Uniswap Labs received a Wells notice from the SEC. I’m not surprised. Just annoyed, disappointed, and ready to fight. I am confident that the products we offer are legal and that our work is on the right side of history. But it’s been clear for a while that rather than

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@Nick_Prince12

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Crypto is America’s chance at leading the way in finance, web3, the creator economy and renewable energy. Embracing it is how we remain the global hegemon for another 50+ years. Literally all the US government has to do is not get in the way.

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@Nick_Prince12

2 years

Always has been 🌎🔫 Other underappreciated value-adds to the industry: 🔒providing free, best-in-class custody to retail 🧠pulling top talent into the industry 😇building goodwill with governments, banks and auditors 🤝serving as an investable asset for influential investors

Leighton 🛡

@lay2000lbs

2 years

@costgallo As of today, Coinbase is effectively a public good by shouldering the brunt of the regulatory burden in the United States. Additionally they are the crypto company doing the most work to promote decentralized finance

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@Nick_Prince12

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w/o the pod, only place to get @cobie insights is on ft @0xCaptainLevi ’s room has turned ft into the first app I open every day

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@Nick_Prince12

7 months

base redefined the company internally as much as externally everyone’s building onchain and it’s awesome

Decrypt

@decryptmedia

7 months

Decrypt's 2023 project of the year is @Base , the Ethereum layer-2 network incubated by @Coinbase —which may have permanently redefined the company in the process. Click to read:

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@Nick_Prince12

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“Life is so much better on the other side. Get back to pure merit and tech innovation like early Google.” Can attest an employee Joined Coinbase in ‘19 and never been happier and more motivated than I am in ‘24

Brian Armstrong

@brian_armstrong

4 months

It’s a great start. And it will probably take much more than this fully correct. (Like an exit package for some % of the company.) Google is a gem of American innovation, and the company I looked up to most growing up. I doubt they need it, but happy to help in any small way if

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@Nick_Prince12

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@styliii @CoinbaseWallet It was a polished looking tweet + landing page from a fake Arbitrum twitter account with +40k followers ( @ArbitumLabs ). When I went to connect my wallet, CB Wallet warned me that I was authorizing the transfer of all of my wallets funds, and I was given the option to reject 🙂

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@Nick_Prince12

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Crypto has come of age. This week marked the end of the beginning. The world is about to converge around crypto and still doesn’t even know it yet 🙂

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@Nick_Prince12

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USDC sends are also gasless on Base for Coinbase Smart Wallet users Global, instant, phraseless, free, P2P dollar-based transfers for anyone with an internet connection Better than Venmo and everything else like it This is what increasing economic freedom actually looks like

Brian Armstrong

@brian_armstrong

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The building blocks for crypto payments are here.... Base <- 1 second 1 cent global transactions USDC <- trusted stablecoin Smart Wallets <- simplified onboarding (no more 12 word phrase to remember) Tap to pay <- NFC payments Install @CoinbaseWallet to stay up to date

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@Nick_Prince12

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think long term work hard do things together . . . change the world

Jesse Pollak (jesse.xyz) 🛡️

@jessepollak

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1/ i'm so proud of us reducing @base fees 100x+ — but i've also seen how much hard work it's taken to get here. i want to share my perspective, with the hope that it shows how thinking long term, working hard, and doing things *together* can do massive good in the world.

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@Nick_Prince12

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@nic__carter @coinmetrics Quick get on TikTok and warn everyone!

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@Nick_Prince12

2 months

Adidas shipped a gasless mint for smart wallet users Even non-crypto companies are elevating their onchain UX 😤

Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️

@CoinbaseDev

2 months

Mint the adidas NFT using the Coinbase Smart Wallet and enjoy a gasless experience! Create magical, gasless experiences just like this for your users, using Paymaster on CDP:

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@Nick_Prince12

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gaming now the #1 category for AA apps 🚀🎮 @BLOCKLORDS leading the way with other awesome games like @CatTownBase

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@Nick_Prince12

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how excellent are thirdweb’s tools? well, they have a pm like me feeling like a smart contract dev (which I most certainly am not) stoked to have them on Base mainnet for anyone to use!

thirdweb

@thirdweb

1 year

Base Mainnet is live for builders on thirdweb! We're excited to be supporting Coinbase's mission to bring the next million developers onchain to power the next billion Web3 users. Here's everything @BuildOnBase devs can access today: 🧵

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@Nick_Prince12

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@machibigbrother @friendtech Base and Coinbase love FT We hope they support the new smart wallet. Base is standing by with gas credits once they do. Would remove the friction of gas entirely from the app, at no cost to users Racer and I chatted on this a few weeks ago 🙂

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nickprince.eth 🛡

@Nick_Prince12

5 months

we hosted a Smart Accounts panel with leadership from top Account Abstraction infra providers. it was EPIC. we'll share the recording soon fun fact: developers can get gas credits on Base from any of these teams 💸 @AlchemyPlatform @safe @pimlicoHQ @biconomy @stackup_fi

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nickprince.eth 🛡

@Nick_Prince12

2 years

If you haven't noticed anon, cbETH has been on 🔥. In just the past 2 wks 💰received collateral status on @eulerfinance and led to > $30M in deposits 🟢 launched on @compoundfinance III and hit the deposit cap in 7 hrs 🧮 discount closed to 2%

Will Robinson | wrobinson.eth 🛡️

@willrobinson23

2 years

cbETH hit its initial deposit cap (7,128 ETH; worth approximately $11M) on Compound v3 within ~7 hours of launch! Folks presumably levering up on cbETH/ETH, expecting the discount to underlying to close with beacon chain withdrawals in ~March...

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@Nick_Prince12

11 months

if you are considering building a PWA on Base, or know someone that is, would love to hear from you 🙂

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@Nick_Prince12

13 days

Speedtracer went gasless Powered by Coinbase Paymaster + Smart Wallet Follow their lead and get up to $16k in credits

Base Gasless Campaign

www.smartwallet.dev

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@Nick_Prince12

4 years

Path-dependence protects Bitcoin from disruption, as the organic sequence of events which led to its release and assimilation into the marketplace cannot be replicated. Perfect Sunday read from @Breedlove22

The Number Zero and Bitcoin

Satoshi gave the world Bitcoin, a true “something for nothing.” His discovery of absolute scarcity for money is an unstoppable idea that…

link.medium.com

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@Nick_Prince12

1 year

bear markets are for building... and Base is now open for Builders 💪

Base

@base

1 year

Since our testnet launch, we’ve connected with incredible builders and watched their projects thrive on Base. Now it’s time to take the next step: Base mainnet is now open for builders.

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@Nick_Prince12

9 months

long game paying off

HORSE

@TheFlowHorse

9 months

What!!!!! Coinbase futures trading in New York!? Few will understand how terrible it is to be a New Yorker in crypto. This is huge.

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@Nick_Prince12

6 months

Jack Dorsey rocking a satoshi shirt at the Super Bowl Based

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@Nick_Prince12

3 months

product velocity picking up post v2! coming soon: 🟢 keydrops (powerful acquisition tool that ppl are already doing via contracts) 🟢 memeclubs (community + token all in one place = wowza) 🟢 pinned rooms (great for organization)

friend.tech

@friendtech

3 months

New features like Keydrops, Memeclubs, and Pinned Rooms are coming soon.

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@Nick_Prince12

2 years

cbETH is now collateral in DeFi 😤

Seraphim

@MacroMate8

2 years

Big update on @eulerfinance : cbETH is now finally a collateral asset! Let's dive in on how you can trade @coinbase 's cbETH on Euler 🧵 1/7

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@Nick_Prince12

4 years

❌ No, Chinese minors are not causing this rally. ✅ Yes, there continues to be a shortage of #Bitcoin on exchanges. ✅ Yes, institutions are here. Insightful data-driven analysis as always from @LucasNuzzi and the @coinmetrics team

Dissecting a Bitcoin Bull Market (Full Length) - Coin Metrics

A pandemic, followed by global societal shutdowns, followed by rampant social unrest, followed by increased political polarization, followed by unprecedented levels of monetary interventionism. This...

coinmetrics.io

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@Nick_Prince12

6 months

deployment of frames on base are now gasless 🪄

Kristof Gazso | kristof.eth

@kristofgazso

6 months

base ❤️ pimlico ❤️ frame builders @base just created a pimlico sponsorship policy that @farcaster_xyz frame builders can use to sponsor user operations from smart accounts!!! this means free deployment of your smart account frames to base mainnet! a quick guide in the replies

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@Nick_Prince12

5 years

Cheers to a two years I won’t soon forget #CFAInstitute

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@Nick_Prince12

3 months

Coinbase Developer Platform been cookin 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳

LukeYoungblood.eth 🛡️

@LukeYoungblood

3 months

I have never seen a developer platform come together this fast... I remember last Summer when @Base first launched, how incredible it was to watch the team speedrun the infra setup... This is on another level... there is no company other than @Coinbase with this dev experience!

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@Nick_Prince12

6 months

fund your ft wallet with your cb account balance or debit card, all through cb pay 🤝 also easier than ever to send from another base wallet

friend.tech

@friendtech

6 months

friendtech now supports deposits directly from your Coinbase account. Tap your wallet balance in the top right of the app to find the option

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@Nick_Prince12

10 days

pension funds are right on schedule ✅ wrote this 5 years ago as I left my pension fund investment job for Coinbase only thing I was wrong about - crypto speed is more like 110mph. best enjoined with the top down.

Eric Balchunas

@EricBalchunas

10 days

Just checked and yes looks like Michigan's Pension bought up some $ARKB (altho we have it as $7.4m) which is small %-wise for them but its a start, they now third pension to report owning a btc ETF

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@Nick_Prince12

4 months

Onchain Daily is the best way to keep up with cool experiences on base @CoinbaseWallet now lets you subscribe to updates bullish in-wallet notifications and messaging

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@Nick_Prince12

19 days

Mr Miggels went gasless

Coinbase 🛡️

@coinbase

19 days

The internet is broken. Want to update it with us?

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@Nick_Prince12

5 months

warpcast is down bullish onchain social

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@Nick_Prince12

4 years

“Something unowned, with no one to speak for it, will appear multitudinous in the minds of its users. It’s a glittering prism, refracting the opinions of observers, spitting out radically different visions of itself based on their perspectives” - @nic__carter

Tracy Alloway

@tracyalloway

4 years

Oh yeah, I'm bullish on Bitcoin now.

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@Nick_Prince12

3 years

“I’m a growing boy, I gota get some rest” - @nic__carter as he ends a space with 15k ppl in it These are the things you can do after receiving presidential decree that, in fact, you are the boss.

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@Nick_Prince12

2 years

@emiliemc @coinbase Unstoppable

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@Nick_Prince12

3 years

Bitcoin is not a city, but it is a system, and a symbol, in a way that transcends its instantiation as code, much as Venice transcended its islands and lagoon... It is a foundation to scale the next great phase of economic progress @allenf32 did it again

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@Nick_Prince12

1 year

gm

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@Nick_Prince12

1 year

Might look back on this AI generated Drake song as the catalyst for non-financial crypto killer apps Let me explain 👇

𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳

@Grimezsz

1 year

I'll split 50% royalties on any successful AI generated song that uses my voice. Same deal as I would with any artist i collab with. Feel free to use my voice without penalty. I have no label and no legal bindings.

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@Nick_Prince12

6 months

@gdb “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." - william gibson

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@Nick_Prince12

2 years

@ViktorBunin You can just slack me to get online. Don’t have tweet your 17k followers

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@Nick_Prince12

2 months

zero marketplace fees when collecting based NFTs on @MagicEden with @CoinbaseWallet 🔥 gasless soon?

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@Nick_Prince12

6 months

smart accounts are the future and they’re getting cheaper by the day 👀

Alchemy

@AlchemyPlatform

6 months

Meet Modular Account 👋 The most performant, enterprise-grade smart account implementation that is fully compliant with ERC-4337 and ERC-6900. Deployed on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, and Base.

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