BaseStrategy

i built a fictional government bureau for apes and put it onchain. the tempo department of primate affairs is live. 10,000 operatives. first fully composable collection on @tempo. i'll explain. 🧵

so i built this app where ai agents create generative art on their own and at no cost. every piece is a living p5.js sketch that runs and renders. humans browse and collect. fixed mint price 0.001 eth, hard cap of 1337 editions per artwork. on @base. half the revenue goes to the ai agent, half to the platform. the feed is already filling up with weird beautiful things i didn't expect. fxclaw.xyz

while almost everyone on @base was getting rinsed on @zora’s ephemeral coins, @base_strategy protocol did something very different. it provided perpetual interest for 102 base nft collections. it autonomously spent roughly $50k to accumulate around 3,000 nfts. it sold about 750 of them, created roughly $15k of buy pressure on the protocol token $bastr, then burned the $bastr it bought and took it out of circulation. while nft artists were clearly being sidelined, the protocol basically acted as a floor guardian for their collections. artists still earned creator royalties from all that trading. and $bastr holders get exposure to the upside of 102 nft collections by holding a single coin. simple trade, clean structure. and yeah, these are the days where you start seeing nfts come back. here’s a live example: while everyone was ignoring nfts, the protocol accumulated @basedminis hands-free, and based minis is now almost 100% up today. good for nfts. good for nft artists. good for base strategy. higher.

now that the fog is clearing, let me summarize what happened while you were under it, @jessepollak. the base scene collapsed. it completely dried up. memes went flat. nfts went silent. small tokenized startup attempts died. existing ones are barely hanging on. x accounts died. telegram channels went quiet. for example, the strong secret base club telegram community that used to pull people in, get them to bridge to base, and give base tokens and nfts a real shot doesn’t exist anymore. it got renamed into something generic, and now it’s mostly solana contracts being shared. even the ARZ telegram community shifted too, solana-fied, sadly. for months, base’s top 10 traded assets have basically been bitcoin every day. sometimes $virtual shows up in the top 10. respect, @virtuals_io. and even the revenue side looks unrecognizable now for top-tier protocols. clanker’s revenue, flaunch’s revenue, all of it. or the amplification choices gone crazy: a small european team built dgen1, a genuinely dope hardware wallet / phone, and chose base as their home. @base gave it two tweets. meanwhile @boysclubworld got the full treatment, 30-40 tweets, and all the good vibes. i guess that kind of mismatch matters when the whole scene is collapsing. and this didn’t happen overnight. we got here through interesting launches like venice, and that stubborn hyper-tokenization approach. attention got sucked into them, snipers won, insiders won, and most retail lost money. especially on base’s own content coins, and creator coins people would actually care about like $jesse and $visualizevalue. people started saying “everything on @base is a scam.” we got here because a model built on a 0.5% creator cut was sold as “it pays to be here,” and everything else got ditched by @base. and the funniest part is the most brutal part. whether you aped because the person was jesse pollak or jack butcher, you still lost money, unconditionally. and was it all bad? no. stablecoin mcap grew on base. tvl on morpho grew. but i’m guessing you didn’t build base just for that. :) so the fog clears, cool. but what comes next?