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Core team @base • Former maintainer: bitcoin.org • Editor: Mastering Bitcoin & Mastering Ethereum • Developer: github.com/wbnns
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Finished judging all the submissions to the Base track in ETHGlobal's Agentic Ethereum hackathon

Bit bummed—only five projects can take the top prize, but so many more deserve it

So much good stuff

Best group of participants and projects I've seen in a while
We need to build a TokenKit to help people do this the right way
Don’t grind for amplification—grind for adoption
Will the next generation say, "You hired humans as financial planners?"
Another cool ETHGlobal Agentic Ethereum hackathon project—a team built an onchain accelerator run by AI agents that helps founders find product market fit and fundraise on Base
This ETHGlobal Agentic Ethereum hackathon submission, ARMIC, pays tokens on Base to physical rehab patients for completing exercises—so good

Sign me up for the future where people get paid for becoming more healthy
Another cool project on Base from ETHGlobal's Agentic Ethereum hackathon—DAOs powered by AI
Interesting onchain + AI intersection—broadly applicable beyond just haircuts
Hackathon pro tip: Start with a barebones but functional live link that works as planned (don’t worry if it’s ugly)

Refine the design later—not the other way around

A lot of teams die on the hill of saving functionality for last, ending up with something that looks good but doesn’t work

Where I’m from in Arkansas, we call this putting lipstick on a pig

Don’t put lipstick on the pig
Quickest way to get help as a builder:

âś… One sentence, who you are
âś… One sentence, your link + value prop
âś… One sentence, your ask
âś… One sentence, gratitude
❌ No asking for phone calls, no extra sentences

If someone doesn’t help, they're not the right helper, just move on—someone else will :)
Tried superwhisper with Cursor—like it, but Apple’s built-in dictation feels faster
There are so many submissions to the Base track in ETHGlobal's Agentic Ethereum hackathon that I had to build a command-line app to review them
I'd rather have 1K followers on @zora than 10K on Instagram
Judging @ethglobal’s Agentic Ethereum hackathon today—hundreds of projects built on Base; excited to see the winners :)
No matter how I feel, I always feel better after working out
One of my favorite posts from Base, to date, written by @anika
Look
into my eyes
you're getting
based
AI is growing so fast on Base, we just gave it its own category on the Ecosystem page
/Base
Cheers to everyone who escaped adolescence, high school, a hometown, a country, or something else to be here building the future of finance and an open internet

Don't forget—it's part of our job to help others do it too
@ethglobal's Agentic Ethereum hackathon runs through Feb 14 with $175K in prizes, and @base is a sponsor!

I recently gave a workshop for it and wanted to share it here. It’s a great resource to save if you're building on Base.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUlMQNLdytI
If you're building something AI-powered on Base, I put together a Notion page with almost 50 different projects to check out for inspiration

https://docs.wbnns.com/Base-is-a-hub-for-Onchain-AI-190cf4706b47806b8d9edea648111fef?pvs=4

Special thanks to @cryptso.eth who curated the initial list in an X post that lead to this page, as well as all of the builders making these agentic apps on Base
Marketing is like makeup on a face—too much is obvious, bad application is worse, and the best is so subtle you barely notice it, maybe it’s not even there at all
Prices go up, build
Prices go down, build
Launching a token, December 2024
Launching a token, January 2025