My past career experience at AI enterprise companies told me that humanity needs much deeper ways to bond together over one another after AI can automate most of our jobs. 9-5 will become 9-thrive. I believe hyperfinancialization will play a big role in this future. AGI and Universal Basic Income (UBI) will enable everyone to have the full freedom to do whatever they want. The eventual destiny of humanity is to create, please and inspire each other. This has also been the vision of our company starting out.
Our interest in Base piqued after Imran suggested us to look into the ecosystem. Base’s mission is to build a global on-chain economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom, to bring 1 billion people on-chain. This matches our vision of hyperfinancialization. With the Flashblocks rollout of 200ms block time and the cheapest gas fee across all chains, we don’t see why the technical infra of Base cannot achieve these ambitious goals. The distribution of Coinbase as the only public crypto exchange in the US (before GEMINI’s IPO a few days ago) brings the unfair advantage of giving extra exposure to Base. We soon started the integration of Base chain data feed, infra, and ultra optimized txns for all DEXs/LPs (Uniswap V2/V3/V4, Aerodrome, PancakeSwap etc) on Base, and rolled out the open beta of o1.exchange on Base/Solana on Sept 20 along with the fundraising announcement of Coinbase Ventures leading our last round 3 months ago.
Since then, we’ve just been constantly listening to our community and been heads down polishing the product o1.exchange to increase the broader adoption of ultra fast DEX trading terminal built for Base trenchers.
Earlier this month, we got invited to the Basecamp 2025 where we had the chance to observe the Base ecosystem and the Base builder community closely in the past 3 days. From the initially hinted hype of the potential Base network token drop, to the deeper collaboration and integrations on the product side, we’re more convinced that Base is our home. Base team is part of the bigger company Coinbase, but what I’m surprised about is the autonomy of the team. The Base team consists of many ex crypto founders, elites from TradFi (IB/PE/VC), aka the hustlers we know to fully support builders. The unfair advantage of having the abundant resource as part of a public crypto exchange and the autonomy of the Base team made me pretty bullish on the ecosystem in the long term horizon, where the goal is to increase adoption.
o1.exchange is currently working on price discovery of creator tokens and the corresponding post tokens on Zora to bring alpha to users.
As of reflecting and writing this, my flight from Vermont back to SFO is about to land. The past 3 days at the Basecamp 2025 is one of the most info dense and talent dense experiences for me. Finally back to building after getting home.
See you at our 1st AMA of o1.exchange tmr folks.
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Also shoutout to the @base team who has been supporting us throughout @ConsbeeracyF, @j_austincain @john_tv_locke @jessepollak and @alliancedao team @lmrankhan @QwQiao, @DangerWillRobin, and many more.