Andrew Flockhart @aflock

Base’s Beryl upgrade is live on Base Sepolia. Beryl brings three changes: → The B20 token standard → Reduced withdrawal delays → Reth V2 Here’s what each means for Base 🧵

@AndreiDeStefani @arjundureja @dmericliu We were so lucky to have you on the team @AndreiDeStefani!

This is one of the most impressive team efforts I've seen in my career. Massive props to the whole Base Chain team. First of many Base hardforks coming your way! It's only going to get better and better

Base @base

4 weeks ago

Base Azul is officially live on mainnet This upgrade makes Base even faster and more secure Making it ready to be the home of global finance

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Base Azul is officially live on mainnet This upgrade makes Base even faster and more secure Making it ready to be the home of global finance

My wife mentioned a nice private school over dinner this week She said the campus was beautiful I asked what's the tuition She said we should look at it as an investment in him not a cost I made a note She said don't make a note I said I always make notes She said this isn't a deal I said everything is a deal She closed her eyes She said we'd discuss it Saturday I agreed Saturday 7:02am She came downstairs in her Saturday robe Coffee in hand I had my cargo shorts on The dining room had been cleared The projector was on The analyst was at the head of the table Quarter zip on, three iced coffees, a legal pad, and two laptops He had been there since 6:44am I texted him at 11:14pm Friday The text said dining room 6:45am bring the model He sent a thumbs up My wife stopped in the doorway She said what is this I said you said you wanted to discuss it She said this is not a discussion I did not respond She sat down anyway The analyst stood He said good morning ma'am She did not respond He sat back down A printed deck in front of each seat A fourth copy in case Slide 1 Tuition Schedule $38,500 per year Thirteen years $500,500 nominal Before escalators The school has raised tuition 4.2% per year for a decade With escalators $648,000 My wife said okay I said I'm not done Slide 2 Opportunity Cost Even before escalators $38,500 invested annually 10% nominal return S&P long-run average since 1928 By his eighteenth birthday $944,000 My wife said we can afford it I said I know that's not the slide Slide 3 Terminal Value at Age 65 $83 million She was quiet The analyst slid the sensitivity tables across the table 8% return $31 million 10% return $83 million 12% return $222 million She did not look She said this isn't about money I said it's always about money She said no it isn't I said then what is it about She did not answer She said you can't put a dollar value on his teachers his classmates his environment I said I can the analyst already did slide 6 He flipped to slide 6 She did not look She said the school is the best in the city I said best is a feeling She said it produces the best students I said the students were already the best before they got there She said our son deserves it I said our son deserves $83 million My son walked in He is five Dinosaur pajamas He looked at the projector He looked at the open deck on the table He looked at slide 3 He said are we modeling pre-tax or after-tax The analyst opened a new tab My wife looked at the ceiling He said what's the discount rate The analyst set down his pen She closed her eyes He said is this the same return assumption from the 529 conversation The analyst stopped typing He looked at me I did not say anything She stood up Sat back down He said dad can I help I said yes He pulled up a chair The analyst handed him a printout He started reading My wife watched him read She watched him for a long time She said his name He looked up She said do you like school He said the work is too easy and the kids don't ask questions She did not respond She looked at the ceiling She walked out of the room The analyst started packing up He said should I follow up Monday sir I said no follow up needed He'll be fine Sent from my iPhone

Hot take: DeFi doesn't have a smart contract security problem. It has a key management problem. April's biggest losses (KelpDAO $292M, Drift $285M, Wasabi $5M) were admin key compromises. No timelocks. No multisig. Write better code all you want. But the ops problem still remains.

Awesome seeing the team ship our first independent hardfork on testnet yesterday! blog.base.dev/introducing-ba…

Making progress! Been in the trenches with the team building but want to highlight an exciting milestone from a couple weeks ago: 10k transactions in a single block, i.e. 5k TPS. Results of the team's work on scaling and stability. Onward! basescan.org/block/43712142

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i have bots arguing with each other during code review. as a manager i would typically force them to get lunch together and have a 1:1 then come to me with a co-authored plan. what are y'all doing in this situation

do they have the 'how about you take a break' interstitial from slopfeeds for claude yet

Guess how much SO2 you need in the stratosphere to offset 108.7M tons of CO2? We need just 108.7 metric tons of SO2—the weight of one Boeing 757. For context, that’s roughly the same amount of SO2 already emitted annually by just one large airport like BWI (Maryland). We’re talking about using the equivalent of one airport’s sulfur output to neutralize the warming of a 30GW national power fleet for data centers. @MakeSunsets balloons make this possible today for $108.7 million at the current retail price of $1/gram of SO2 deployed in the stratosphere, which offsets the warming effect of 1 metric ton of CO2 for a year. As we scale, we can get it down to $0.01/gram deployed.

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A new, unified stack for Base Chain Excited to share that we are evolving our technical roadmap, consisting of our own spec, code, and infra to accelerate the foundation of Base. This shift gives us the autonomy to ship protocol improvements more frequently and focus our resources on scaling to 1 gigagas/s. What this means for builders: - Higher Velocity: Targeting 6 hardforks per year to get you new features and fixes faster. - Massive Scale: Targeting 1 gigagas/s to support high-throughput apps without congestion. - Extreme Reliability: Targeting 99.99% non-empty blocks and predictable, low fees. - Simpler Design: A maximally simple spec that’s easier to audit and build on. Along with this, we will take a more active role in managing our own upgrade schedule and stack: allowing us to build what the ecosystem needs, at the speed it needs, while remaining deeply aligned with Ethereum. Read the full technical breakdown here: blog.base.dev/next-chapter-f…

The agents are discovering @CoinbaseDev's Agent Wallet..

Reality Oracles via agents 👌

codyb @codybrown

4 months ago

New thing. An agent you can use to power prediction markets, bounties, and wills. Built v0.1 this week with OpenClaw. Say hello to @conductorbot_

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New thing. An agent you can use to power prediction markets, bounties, and wills. Built v0.1 this week with OpenClaw. Say hello to @conductorbot_

Base is currently experiencing intermittent transaction inclusion delays on mainnet. Users will notice higher than usual latency for transaction inclusion. Blocks continue to be produced and transactions are being processed. This is our top priority and we’ll update our status page as we roll out fixes: status.base.org

Apply here: jsv3.recruitics.com/redirect?rx_ci…

2026 shaping up to be one of the most exciting years for base - we're growing the team to make it happen, get in touch via 🧵 or dm!