🚨SHOCKING: Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP memecoin PLUNGED 97.8% within the FIRST HOUR of launch, falling from nearly $200 to $4.36. Its fully diluted valuation is now around $5 BILLION, but liquidity remains thin: • Official Aerodrome pool: $83K in USDC • Uniswap pool: $380K in USDC The Uniswap liquidity became active only after the token had already fallen more than 90%. The near-$200 opening price implied a $200 BILLION valuation, but extremely thin liquidity made that figure misleading.

I pray whoever buys Hunter Biden’s coin tomorrow gets rugged so hard that they never recover for the rest of their days Whichever exchange lists it is boycotted by the masses

The Opal token has launched on Base. CA: 0x119B63B1605Be3A8ff4543c7F76f7f1f79eECd1f Base season has started. Big update is dropping next week. Stay tuned.

Working on this migration to #Base. We're building a path that does not require the wallet to send the Opal token. This is to protect people from scams. All you have to do is hold Opal on your wallet.

We're excited to announce that we'll be migrating and launching the Opal token on @base within the next 2 weeks. More info will be shared soon. Stay tuned. 🟦

We just wrapped up our bug bounty program and submitted our entire codebase to @coinbase for a security review.

We paid out $1,450 in bug bounties from the latest production testing round. All valid reports have been addressed, with fixes now live in production. A new $1,000 bounty round is now active for critical vulnerabilities. Thanks to all the testers. Keep breaking things. 🫡

For the first time ever, production is now public and open for everyone to test: app.opaldex.com To kick things off, we’re launching a $1,000 bug bounty for anyone who discovers a critical vulnerability capable of draining funds from the protocol and our internal market maker. During the bug bounty phase, trading limits will remain in place while we continue hardening the system. Next up: • Coinbase security review • Gradual liquidity increases • Points Dashboard and details on our 4 Seasons of Points • Launch of our HLP Vault Join our Telegram to connect with the team, report bugs, and share feedback: t.me/OfficialOpalExchange

Momentum is building on Base. Here’s 25 things the Base ecosystem launched and announced in July. 1) @morpho launched Morpho Midnight, Fixed Rate Markets, and a new Markets App. Allowing users on Base to lend and borrow at fixed rates. 2) @o1_exchange introduced the B20 launchpad to create and discover B20 tokens on Base in seconds, without code. 3) @bankrbot crossed $5B in total volume traded onchain through Bankr. 4) @tenorfinance, a fixed-rate lending and borrowing platform for asset managers and large borrowers, went live on Base to provide access to onchain lending markets. 5) @numoforex presented the first stablecoin-settled USD/NGN futures exchange, unlocking Nigerian Naira DeFi opportunities on Base. 6) @noon_capital went live with its digital dollar, built with institutional-grade security, on Base. 7) @definitivefi launched Flash Agents, delivering advanced orders, smart routing and resilient execution on Base. 8) @doppler_fi expanded to Base, starting with infrastructure for cbXRP and paving the way for more tokenized assets over time. 9) @cloudflare announced Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare with stablecoins on x402. 10) @apify launched 20,000+ tools accessible through x402, giving autonomous agents access to the largest marketplace of web automation tools. 11) @spiko, with @coinbase, now lets USDC and EURC settle directly into regulated, yield-bearing UCITS liquidity funds on Base. 12) @centrifuge issued over $50 million in tokenized AAA CLOs on Base as part of Ethena’s ongoing diversification of its collateral with institutional credit. 13) @avantis announced the rollout of Avantis V2 on August 12, featuring expanded RWA access, zero-commission trading, and more. 14) @midasrwa launched on Base to bring its composable onchain investment products to one of the largest onchain finance ecosystems. 15) @askvenice raised $65 million in a round led by Dragonfly at a $1 billion valuation, to expand its private and uncensored AI platform as an alternative to mainstream models. 16) @ethos_network launched Ethos Trade, a beta version of its Reputation Markets v2 that lets users trade anyone’s reputation onchain. 17) @liveframe shipped a tool for UGC creators, streamers, and clippers to monetize their attention and get paid through its next-generation distribution platform on Base. 18) @liminalcash launched Nim, an AI financial agent on Base that lets users move money, split bills, invest, and handle banking tasks through simple conversation. 19) @opal_dex announced Production V1 of its privacy-first perpetual DEX on Base, with invite-only access and limited capacity now live for stress-testing. 20) @birchhill_io launched its first onchain product: a permissioned USDC credit market on Base backed by tokenized real estate equity. 21) @pixiechess opened its new Free Brawl game mode on Base, offering no-entry-fee play with real rewards. 22) @trueo_ launched user-created markets on its permissionless prediction platform, letting anyone ask questions, create markets, and earn. 23) @korprotocol shipped KOR ID on Base, a unified verified identity that unlocks access to its full suite of apps and enables instant agent payments on deal close. 24) @niftyisland launched Prize World, a new play mode powered by Base for collecting authenticated trading cards and unlocking rewards. 25) @freedomfactory announced PQ1, the world’s first fully post-quantum hardware wallet, live on Base.

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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 definitively wrong. the collateral damage was pretty bad! and this year has been an exercise in eating shit. we realized how our focus on social had meant that base had fallen behind in key areas that were now increasingly critical - we had perps (shoutout avantis!) and prediction markets (shoutout limitless!), but both were well behind scaled competitors. and we had a lot of room to improve in unlocking base as a platform for tokenization and payments that really worked for enterprises. people lost confidence, and CT spectators reminded me weekly of all of my mistakes as often as they could. it felt bad man, still feels bad. but if there’s one thing i’ve learned from the last decade of building in this space, it’s that when things feel the worst, the best thing to do is just put your head down and build. so that’s what i’m doing. I refocused my time and attention back to the chain away from the app, started writing code again, shipped a bunch of stuff (azul, beryl, b20, privacy, ledgers) and questioned a bunch of my assumptions: does crypto need social to grow? does base need an app? can base be bigger than coinbase? I thought for a long time that social was the only thing that could drive the sort of viral growth to get crypto to a billion people. unsurprisingly, I now believe that’s wrong. It’s clear that better money is more than enough - we are seeing this live with stablecoins, predictions, perpetuals, tokenization and i only expect it to accelerate. I am now focused on bringing a billion people onchain just by making global finance actually work. on the app, my focus is on building base into the blockchain for global finance. to that end, i’ve handed the base app back to the coinbase mothership, where my now good friend @cobie will be taking it from here to make it the best damn app for onchain you’ve ever seen, including expanding beyond the base ecosystem in ways that tbh i won’t love as the leader of base. it’s incredibly hard to grow a decentralized network inside of a big public corporation. and i feel like much of the discourse on CT over the last week is downstream of this. the following things can be true: (1) base (and i) love memes and (2) brian probably won’t ever bullpost memes on the tl (this activity is illegal once you’re over 40 years of age). it’s weird and we’re working through it as we continue to decentralize base, which has been our commitment from the beginning. we’re going to build base into the blockchain for global finance and do everything we can to be the place that the world’s money settles over the next century. we will surely have formidable competitors (welcome robinhood and stripe!) and people may abandon our cause, but we welcome the competition and believe it’s our duty to win the respect and commitment of those who rally to our banner.  in 2026, this concretely means three things: winning trading, payments, and agents. [continued in the reply]

Welcome to @base, @opal_dex! Privacy perps are a category we’re very excited about and we’re grateful to have @ClemensCrypto and @kenzanboo building it on Base

The Opal token is moving to @base When we launched Opal, we deliberately chose Ethereum mainnet. We wanted to see which ecosystem would truly support our long-term vision before committing. The answer became obvious. Base is the fastest-growing L2 and extremely performant. On the token side, it has significantly more volume and attention than ETH mainnet. But most importantly for us, it offers its builders by far the best support. Over the past 7 months, the Base team has been instrumental in helping us bring the first house-blind privacy perpetual DEX to market. From ecosystem support to the ventures team, they’ve consistently gone above and beyond. Going through two Base Batches cohorts was a game changer, and we’d encourage every serious builder to apply to the next one. Huge thank you to the team at base @jessepollak @davidtsocy @BronheimDaniel @RyanGittleson and @ZacPrater for all your help and support thus far. This is a move our community has been asking for for months, and we’re excited to finally make it happen. Existing holders will be migrated 1:1. Team tokens will remain fully locked and all liquidity will also be moved 1:1. For now, OPAL will continue trading on ETH mainnet as usual and we’ll announce a launch date and more details soon. On the product side, we're happy to share that production testing is going well so far, and another batch of invites is going out today.

Big announcement is dropping on Wednesday at 1pm ET. Get ready. 🟦