👨‍🎓 @zbase__ Privacy is for all, including your agents

NEW IN: BlackRock says AI agents could become a major source of stablecoin demand.

‼️ BREAKING: Revolut handed over customers’ passport copies, verification selfies and full transaction histories to a malicious actor. The actor sent lawful government information-demand emails using a genuine government domain that passed domain authentication. Revolut later concluded they were not authentic. Affected customers were notified on Friday. What may have been disclosed ranges from name, date of birth and home address to account statements, withdrawal records and complete Bitcoin transaction history. The company says it has alerted the agency to the unauthorised mailbox on its domain, blocked the address and begun notifying regulators. It has not named the agency, explained how someone obtained a mailbox there, or given a number of affected customers. ZachXBT, who circulated the notices, believes the incident was limited in size and aimed at high-net-worth users.

Here's what we built at ETHOnline 2026 hosted by @ethglobal: 🥷 zBase – zBase enables private x402 agentic payments onchain, using ZK Privacy Pools and sanctions screening. Updated two things: helping agents make honest privacy decisions and making paid API trials harder to farm. Check it out here: ethglobal.com/showcase/zbase…

Celebrating APAC @base Builders: Part 6 Meet @Grampus_john from Korea 🇰🇷, founder of @gram_voyage—a game studio bringing 15+ years of Web2 gaming expertise into Web3. He's building Uncharted Tycoons and the Chef Universe gaming ecosystem on @base. Some based facts: 🟦 15+ years in game development, with hit mobile titles reaching 50M+ lifetime players, including Cooking Adventure and BTS Cooking On. 🟦 Rolling Burger, part of the Chef Universe, was a Top 50 Builder Track finalist in @base Batches 002. 🟦 Running a live onchain game economy powered by their AI agent, @cfMarcoPolo, built with Base Agent Skills. Show them some love and let us know which APAC @base builder we should feature next. 👇

Robotics: @axisrobotics @StrikeRobot_ai @opengotchi @InvLambda @shadowcleague Agentic: @officialbunnyos @sanfdn @zbase__ @vergex_ai @KaitoAI @Sogni_Protocol @gigrewards @x402guard @basemateagent @gitlawb @sibylcap @virtuals_io @bankrbot @hellominds_ @laguna_network Gaming: @HungryDegens @Grampus_john @Raflux_io @Angland_x @Khugaverse Prediction markets: @OmenX_Official @foresightnow Memes: @Toshi @tybasegod @AllYourBase_AYB @MrMigglesOnBase @BasedBrett @degentokenbase @doginme @Basenjiofficial Defi: @zeus_exchange @o1_exchange @LEDiG_Tech @cityprotocolHQ @avantisfi @ShurikenTrade @yieldrdotorg @KnightIntelco @spectrum_money Stables: @idrx_co @StraitsX @blox_malaysia

lots of conversations about base over the last week. wanted to share my candid take after a week of listening and a lot of reflection over the last 6 months. first off - in case it’s not obvious, the first quarter of 2026 was a punch in the face. I spent 2024 and 2025 making a two pronged bet to bring base to the world: (1) builders would unlock the next wave of crypto adoption; (2) adoption would be driven by new onchain-native social experiences - creators, content, messaging. imo we made the right bet on builders, but obviously the wrong bet on social. builders did drive the next wave of crypto adoption - prediction markets, perpetuals, stablecoins - but social was not at the center of it. in fact, the entire social side of the market that many of us had been building towards - farcaster, zora, miniapps, and yes, creator coins - disintegrated completely. I was wrong - whether it was timing wrong (is $ansem a creator coin?) or fully wrong, only time will tell, but regardless, i was definitively wrong. the collateral damage was pretty bad! and this year has been an exercise in eating shit. we realized how our focus on social had meant that base had fallen behind in key areas that were now increasingly critical - we had perps (shoutout avantis!) and prediction markets (shoutout limitless!), but both were well behind scaled competitors. and we had a lot of room to improve in unlocking base as a platform for tokenization and payments that really worked for enterprises. people lost confidence, and CT spectators reminded me weekly of all of my mistakes as often as they could. it felt bad man, still feels bad. but if there’s one thing i’ve learned from the last decade of building in this space, it’s that when things feel the worst, the best thing to do is just put your head down and build. so that’s what i’m doing. I refocused my time and attention back to the chain away from the app, started writing code again, shipped a bunch of stuff (azul, beryl, b20, privacy, ledgers) and questioned a bunch of my assumptions: does crypto need social to grow? does base need an app? can base be bigger than coinbase? I thought for a long time that social was the only thing that could drive the sort of viral growth to get crypto to a billion people. unsurprisingly, I now believe that’s wrong. It’s clear that better money is more than enough - we are seeing this live with stablecoins, predictions, perpetuals, tokenization and i only expect it to accelerate. I am now focused on bringing a billion people onchain just by making global finance actually work. on the app, my focus is on building base into the blockchain for global finance. to that end, i’ve handed the base app back to the coinbase mothership, where my now good friend @cobie will be taking it from here to make it the best damn app for onchain you’ve ever seen, including expanding beyond the base ecosystem in ways that tbh i won’t love as the leader of base. it’s incredibly hard to grow a decentralized network inside of a big public corporation. and i feel like much of the discourse on CT over the last week is downstream of this. the following things can be true: (1) base (and i) love memes and (2) brian probably won’t ever bullpost memes on the tl (this activity is illegal once you’re over 40 years of age). it’s weird and we’re working through it as we continue to decentralize base, which has been our commitment from the beginning. we’re going to build base into the blockchain for global finance and do everything we can to be the place that the world’s money settles over the next century. we will surely have formidable competitors (welcome robinhood and stripe!) and people may abandon our cause, but we welcome the competition and believe it’s our duty to win the respect and commitment of those who rally to our banner.  in 2026, this concretely means three things: winning trading, payments, and agents. [continued in the reply]