GM Everyone!
Tethra looks good from here.
We're making the Base app the best place to trade onchain.
Starting today, the feed will focus entirely on tradable assets. This means we're removing the Talk feed in favor of a feed of onchain activity.
As part of this shift, we're also sunsetting Creator Rewards. In the last six months, we've paid out over $450k to 17k creators. The program will wrap on Feb 15th, with final payouts on Feb 18th. We're grateful for all the creators who helped us build so far, and will be sharing new ways we'll reward the Base App community soon.
We're just getting started building the best trading experience onchain.
GETTING INTO BASE INCUBASE IS HARDER THAN GETTING INTO HARVARD.
And somehow, we made it.
Here's how a small team from Indonesia got accepted into one of crypto's most elite programs 🧵
Let's talk numbers for a second.
✅ Harvard's acceptance rate: 3.6%
✅ Y Combinator: ~1%
✅ Base Incubase: ~8% (100 teams from 1,200+ projects)
These aren't "startup programs."
They're filters designed to find signal in an ocean of noise.
"What even is Base Incubase?"
Simple:
Coinbase built a faster, cheaper version of Ethereum called Base.
Now they're handpicking which projects get to build on it.
Think of it as Coinbase saying: "These are the builders we believe in."
Here's why being "Based" matters:
→ Base controls 46% of the entire L2 market
→ $4.63 billion in DeFi value locked
→ Direct access to 9.3 million Coinbase users
→ 62% of ALL Layer 2 revenue in 2025
This isn't just an incubator.
It's a distribution machine.
Honestly? We almost didn't apply.
"We're too small."
"They'll never pick us."
"There are thousands of other projects."
Sound familiar?
But then we looked at what we were building and realized we had nothing to lose.
What are we building?
@TethraTrade
Perpetual trading that feels like tapping a chart.
No complicated setup.
No 15-step onboarding.
No "connect wallet, sign message, approve, confirm, wait..."
Just: Think it. Tap it. Trade it.
Here's something most people don't know:
👉 75%+ of ALL crypto trading isn't buying Bitcoin.
👉 It's perpetual futures.
👉 $80 billion traded. Every. Single. Day.
👉 And most of that happens on complicated platforms built for pros.
We're changing that.
The day we got accepted into Incubase:
❌ No champagne.
❌ No celebration dinner.
✅ Just a Zoom call with the team at 10 AM, staring at the screen in disbelief.
Then someone said: "Okay. Now the real work begins."
And we got back to building.
What does Incubase mean for us?
✨ Dedicated advisor from Base Growth team
✨ Mentorship from Web3 veterans
✨ Migration to Base App (reaching users where they already are)
✨ Resources to build faster and smarter
The foundation is set.
Now we execute.
We're not here to hype.
We're here to build perpetual trading that actually makes sense for everyone.
If you want to follow the journey from Incubase to launch
Just stay with us
gTethra Everyone ⚡
We’re excited to share that Tethra is currently participating in Incubase as part of @base batches 002
We’re spending this time strengthening the core product and preparing for what’s next.
Big thanks to the Base ecosystem for supporting the next wave of builders. More updates coming soon 👋
OVERHEARD TWO TRADERS TALKING. ONE OF THEM WAS COOKED☠️
Crypto Twitter : "DYOR, NFA, always check the contract, verify on etherscan, use hardware wallet, never trust, always verify"
tethra maxi : "bro just tap the chart lmao"
both are valid tbh
2026 prediction that nobody's talking about:
tap-to-trade will be the new standard
not because it's fancy
but because everything else will feel... old
the future trading platform is here 💙💚
TRADING ON DEX SHOULDN'T FEEL LIKE SOLVING A PUZZLE
Here we are
→connecting wallets,
→approving tokens,
→switching networks, and
→praying the transaction goes through.
the truth is:
❌most traders don't leave CEX because DEX is "too risky."
❌They leave because it's too complicated.
❌too many steps. too much friction. too much anxiety.
What if trading leverage was as simple as tapping a chart?
→ no endless approvals.
→ no confusing interfaces.
→ no second-guessing every click.
→ just: see it, tap it, done.
That's exactly what we built.
✅ Trading platform with oracle-based perpetuals powered by Pyth Network
✅ tap-to-trade interface that finally makes sense.
✅ account abstraction that removes the chaos.
we're not predicting the future.
we're building it.
Think it, Tap it, Trade it.
