Jesse Pollak says Base meme community is built on long termism and AI “There’s long termism that exists on Base that’s unique. People who’ve been here for years building memes and creating culture through ups and downs. That’s a really powerful anchor. You’re going to have narratives that go up and down and people that come in and leave, but having a core of quality folks holding down the culture is a defining characteristic of Base.” “Another thing unique to Base is AI nativeness. It beats out from Coinbase. X42 transactions are the majority of volumes on Base. Coinbase for agents MPC toolkit lets you trade basically every asset class via your agent, growing fast week over week, works off-chain and onchain. Base team is the highest velocity team at all of Coinbase. 30 PRs a week up from 3 a year and a half ago. That bleeds into the community. That’s why you have AI meme runners on Base and teams using the tools to be way higher leverage.”

Jesse says Base trenches got an order of magnitude better “Base has been around for three years. Last year we started seeing really strong product market fit across finance on Base, trading, payments, financing, people doing things with agents that weren’t possible before. The trenches from a content and creativity perspective have gotten an order of magnitude better. People are using AI to create really engaging narratives. One or two person teams showing what’s possible. We’ve been learning from the trenches of Base. How do we do more of that on the Base team?” “Original core meme communities like Toshi, TYBG, Chad have been curating Base culture for two or three years. Last six months, driven by AI and stocks coming onchain, a new wave of folks came in who maybe hadn’t been exposed to Base or Crypto. More Gen Alpha. People building through a bear market. Excited for them to reap the rewards as the market turns. Energy at the Base meme summit was good. Energy was based.”

Dani says the challenge is making him a better trader “All right, two days left. Need to get at least 100,000 before this challenge ends and win it. We’ll probably end up number one in all time P&L and number one in points too. 19 Solana to 1000+ is the goal. 700 of a thousand is completed so far. This challenge has unironically given me new insights and a lot to learn from. I think from this challenge onwards I’ll be a better trader.” “Some of the coins if he was trading not on the challenge he would have round tripped to a loss. It’s taught him to just take profit when it’s there. It’s almost given him more structure to his trading just because he’s competing.”

Dani is up $73k and on track for $100k “Yesterday was $55K. He ended up making another $20k yesterday. He posted that he wanted to make $100k before the end. He’s got two days left. If he’s pulling in 20 bombs every day I don’t think he’s very far off. He’s up 73k now which is actually insane. It just goes to show the top of the leaderboard are just insane traders.”

Dani explains why he hates Unprofitable A year ago Unprofitable DMed him, told him to buy a coin, then full dumped his entire bundle on him after he bought. Dani says he doesn’t care about the money. It’s the principle. He calls Unprofitable poor at heart, tells him to get a job, and says people like that ruin everything. 🗣️ “He literally tagged me to buy and dumps on me. How poor are you bro. It’s not about money. These people are just fucking poor.”

Dani walks us through the process of how he took his biggest trade on this challenge

Day 7 PNLs were impressive

Knowing when to sell is a skill

WaiterG is number one after the Kimchi Hack Watch it all on @gmgnai