Excited to partner with @Toshi_base as Flap expands to Base. Toshimart is moving to Flap. Looking forward to bringing our communities together and building what’s next on @base. Just getting started.

One chapter closes. A bigger one begins. Excited for the future with @flapdotsh.

A bit more context on why we're moving ToshiMart into Flap, why I think it's the right long-term setup for both Toshi and Flap, and what it means for projects that already launched through ToshiMart.

AAAAAA I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS. There is so much to unpack here. First and foremost, I want to extend a huge gratitude to my brother @eth_cedric and the @flapdotsh team. From partnering with us to launch ToshiMart, to upgrading it into the full Flap Suite (which is much much broader and more interesting than what we had available at ToshiMart), and now our two brands working together to build an amazing ecosystem on Base, with so many cool features and innovations. As mentioned, I will throw out many thoughts and details on why this is such a big upgrade. For now, please all welcome Flap and their entire product to Base.

We’re proud to partner with @flapdotsh as they bring their launchpad to Base. As a partner, Toshi will support Flap’s growth, strengthen its connection with the Base ecosystem, and contribute to the next chapter of onchain creation. Welcome to @base.

Flap is now live on Base. To support this expansion, ToshiMart will be migrating into Flap, bringing both platforms together under one stronger launchpad brand. Flap has built a powerful brand, a strong community, and an established following. By coming together under one platform, creators will benefit from faster updates, better features, and a more unified experience on Base. As we begin the migration: • New launches on ToshiMart have now been disabled • Existing projects can still connect their wallets and manage their tokens • ToshiMart will be sunset once the migration is complete • TOSHI paired token launches will remain available through Flap on Base This will be the final post from the ToshiMart account. Thank you to everyone who has supported and built with us. Follow @flapdotsh for all future updates and visit flap.sh/base/board to launch a token on Base. We are excited to support Flap and build this next chapter together.

Flap is now on Base. Supporting stock-paired token on @base — unlocking a new playground where onchain tokens can trade against RWA assets.💙 Launch now on Flap.sh🦋

Step 1 in a few different smaller and bigger activations and announcements

in the near future, we want the Archive to become the community hub for @Toshi, a place where we can run campaigns and contests but also where anyone can share and explore everything toshi related the diversity of community made art already in there is honestly next level and it’s also a great onboarding tool for people discovering the blue cat for the first time and wanting to deep dive into the community last cycle we saw so many amazing things like billboards, handcrafted art, wrapped cars, people showing up at events with toshi merch and plushies etc with this campaign we really wanna push that even further, take toshi to the next level and see what you guys can cook up when you bring the blue cat into the real world have fun

I've seen/been forwarded a few angry comments from multiple $TOSHI community members about me/me speaking out about things. Those comments are fair, but I do want to put a few things in perspective. For 38 months I've worked on Toshi. No salary paid, no intention to sell tokens, a passion project for me. My kid walks around with a Toshi plushie every day and calls it Tishi. His excitement makes me happy Back to the comments and their validity. It is normal for someone looking in from "the outside" to see my comments and worry that it may hurt Toshi. I have held off on speaking out for well over a year while nothing favorable happened. I didn't speak out publicly while I rallied behind the scenes against the Zora slop, while many many people would DM and call me to ask us to start pairing EVERY Toshi art piece with a new token, and basically pushing that narrative to our community. If I had followed them then, that would have taken Toshi to the slaughterhouse. @FlynnJohnsonn went to the Basecamp last year and walked into a Zora shill party, where it would've been better to call it ZoraCamp. Every builders' meeting was to shill Zora. Look where that led Base. At some point I decided to speak up, while still trying to change things behind the scenes. Zora failed cause it was a horrible model as basically everyone already realized, except for those paid to push the narrative and the few that believed in its validity. So again back to those posts, why do I post? I do it for all of you at Toshi, I do it for all the Base(d) builders I've met over the past 3 years, I do it for all the communities as I still believe we build in one of the best possible onchain economies in the world. I also believe Toshi is the strongest built native token brand in our industry and can potentially compete with Pudgy one day in brand recognition (we have a long way to go of course). Every single day we are all positive about Toshi and its growth, even when others aren't. We've gone through many ups and downs, and currently we're in a bit of a quiet phase as our ecosystem is not one of the hottest and we're currently not the shiny new things. As a community project, it's on all of us collectively to push forward. You don't need "the team" to give you permission to do cool stuff to grow the brand and community. Join us all in this mission, help me see the light when it feels dark, and I will do the same for you. Then shortly back to why these posts? Now Zora was given here as an example of something, but there have been many things that happened that hurt us, our brand, our community, other communities, other builders etc. deeply. These builders give up and move to other chains once they see the opportunities there, because they feel they'd get treated better there. Not us, we are here after 38 months, still trying to build, still trying to grow the brand, while living on essentially a non-existing treasury. If you try to change things through kindness and feedback a thousand times and they don't work, then the choice for me becomes getting bit another thousand times while being quiet, or speaking out and hoping that the biting ends. So far the biting hasn't ended, but the biting has had positive impact in various ways. Multiple people have privately reached out to me to show support from places you'd hope the support comes from. To calm some minds down, I'll try to be a bit less negative on the timeline, but when things are ugly and border crime, I will speak out.

gentle reminder: THE TICKER IS $TOSHI

nice to see the leaderboard getting more competitive again with a few new names in the mix winners for sep 1–15: 🥇 @Nikoswago — $150 🥈 @robdamercman — $105 🥉 @Deeny_escobar — $75 4️⃣ @popoisreborn — $50 5️⃣ @Dwyatt1976 — $40 next round is live through sep 30 wif $420 up for grabs across the top 5 meow!

I agree 100% with this "However I always felt it was always up to us, as the project to drive attention and interest, and Base provided the infra. Any help was always appreciated but not expected." The problem is that they didn't let the chain be what it wanted to be, but forced us in narratives/directions that we did not align with, thus almost forcing projects to make incredible mistakes, and keeping them scared to speak out. How will you get your coveted listing if you speak out, right? The number of times that the leads have asked us - and of course other projects - to launch new "tokens" on zora is sickening, I told em hard pass every single time and then got asked to explain why I didn't want to do their bidding. They have continuously treated us like their employees, asked us to push their narratives "to show unity" but never did anything for us. If only they stayed neutral. Look at basecat, the whole company came to shill it on chain, cobie follows it, listings goes and puts it on CB in a week. That to me signaled that they have essentially given up. Only to realize that they are once again pushing O1, their CB investment. So once again, same playbook, now even more retarded than before.

Ackchyually

looks like cb is finally moving in the right direction thanks to @cobie let's keep working all together on making @base and the cb brand a better place

Truly great to see @cobie stepping and seemingly quickly changing a lot of things that most people have felt for a long time, that got ignored. Happy to see these changes, they will help base and coinbase improve Just stop the crime and we all can move forward

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Toshi Duomaxxing @Apple

that kind of engagement on a reply should tell you everything you need to know about how strong the @Toshi community really is

toshi will always be the first blue cat on base