Workin, on Base
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ENS is currently the best on-chain messaging we have. And that's not a good thing. But it is pretty funny :)
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Excited to share I’ll be stepping up to lead Smart Wallet work across Base and Coinbase Wallet. Here to work for you! LFB
hey everyone - some news: in addition to leading the @base team, i’ll be stepping up to lead @coinbasewallet and joining the @coinbase exec team.
i’m really excited to take on this new mandate and to accelerate our mission of bringing a billion people and a million builders onchain.
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@base and @coinbasewallet share the same north star: make it dead simple for the world to come onchain, and connect everyone who does to the incredible products being built across the entire onchain economy. now, we’ll be able to work together more closely to make this happen.
one important note: @base will continue to uphold its core values of being for everyone, a bridge not an island, and decentralized and open source. @coinbasewallet will continue to work across the entire onchain economy, and we’ll start the work of embodying the other @base values in even more ways.
i’m so excited to work even more closely with the wallet team and to keep leading the base team.
it’s a new day one.
time to put our heads back down.
keep building, stay based.
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LFG! Magic Spend in the wild. Special moment. Can’t wait to get this out to everyone.
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Just realized the dissonance I used to feel between Coinbase and crypto twitter has flipped.
When I joined CB in 2020, I saw all this exciting stuff being discussed on CT and it felt like very few at CB were aware.
Now, I spend my days at CB talking about all kinds of exciting things, solving real pressing issues, and I hop on Twitter and see people stuck on tired old debates, out of touch with today’s crypto developers and consumers.
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Video going through some of the details behind the Smart Wallet demo. Let me know if you have questions and/or other videos you'd like to see!
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As to what’s next for me, excited to share I'll be joining the team working on Base. I’m excited about the opportunity ahead of Base, and feel there’s Avengers level talent and energy organizing around the OP Stack. Am eager to contribute! And excited to be back at CB :)
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Crypto ppl need to stop handwringing and seeing crypto as some niche thing that needs to go mainstream, and realize that “crypto” is already a large and growing consumer base and represents one of the most desirable demographics to market to: has money and extremely online.
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Reminder that Base Pay supports subscriptions
- No processing fees
- All recurring spend logic is onchain (no infinite approvals)
Check it out docs.base.org/base-account/g…
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Excited to cook and PSA that you can now complain to me about more things 🫡
excited that @WilsonCusack is expanding his role to lead all things @base chain, including scaling, decentralization, privacy, markets, and account.
one of the most visionairy technical leaders I've ever worked with and I'm excited for him to take on even more.
new day one 🫡
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The compounding of everything in crypto is crazy. It's like normal open source software x100. We're all working with the same VM and all use shared instances of that VM where everything we build can use every other thing that has been built.
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Coinbase Smart Wallets had their highest usage day ever on Base this week. Higher diversity of calls, compared to past spikes!
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What if, when using Base Pay
You could pay with USDC in your Base Account
AND USDC in your Coinbase account
…stay tuned!
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Our goal is to build the best Solidity organization in the world at Coinbase. We're very early days.
We recently started codifying our style, development, and testing guidelines and are sharing here github.com/coinbase/solidity….
A v0.01 with lots to improve!
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I'm incredibly excited to share Smart Wallet Sub Accounts with you all.
This is the culmination of six months+ of work to try to find a secure way to streamline user experiences.
In the end, we embraced app accounts and found a way to super power them.
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We are planning to 2x Base chain capacity over the next 30 days.
High fees are a bug that will be squashed
scaling @base 2x in 30 days?? Read more in our latest blog blog.base.dev/scaling-base-d…
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Basenames are a critical part of our account platform: providing identity tools to builders and users on Base and other chains.
We're working on an upgrade that we developed with ENS to ensure Basenames work well everywhere! blog.base.dev/basenames-ensi…
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I am once again asking for a hosted solution to replace The Graph's for Ethereum mainnet. I do not want to deal with GRT
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The talent, energy, and hunger at Coinbase right now is crazy.
I feel many of the people I work with will later be known for this period of their career. It's an awesome feeling.
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this is a @jessepollak appreciation post 😌
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You either die a Solidity devfluencer or you live long enough to get picked up by Paradigm
I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined @paradigm as a Research Engineer, to help @matthuang, @FEhrsam, and the rest of the amazing team build the world’s best crypto-native investment firm.
paradigm.xyz/2022/02/joining…
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If you're a digital creator, I'd love to work with you to get Base Pay added to your checkout and save you 3%+ in credit card processing fees. Please DM!
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Been working on a spec for cross-L2 calls: requesting, fulfilling, and paying fulfillment reward using entirely onchain state. github.com/ethereum/RIPs/blo…
PR here github.com/ethereum/RIPs/pul…
Discussion here ethereum-magicians.org/t/rip…
Appreciate feedback!
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1 year! Delivered
- Passkey-secured, web-based wallet
- Sponsored transactions
- Batch operations
- ERC-20 gas tokens
- Subscriptions / Spend Permissions
- Cross chain owner syncing
- MagicSpend
and more!
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We’re going to get very specific about the remaining bad parts of crypto UX and we’re going to ruthlessly eliminate.
🤝
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OP Stack be like, What if you could launch your own chain AND have Ethereum ppl not hate you
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Solidity shipped to prod by Base team this year
- Coinbase Smart Wallet
- Magic Spend
- WebAuthn-sol
- Basenames
- cbBTC
- multiple ERC-4337 paymasters
+ a couple more still to land
exciting times :)
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Headed to our anniversary dinner. The baby gets to tag along. 9 years! When I was twenty a mentor of mine told me marriage shouldn’t even be in my vocabulary till I was 30. Glad I got lucky and married young. Now 32 with four kids and feel unreasonably blessed.
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Did a quick little vid on the potential upcoming Nouns DAO fork
Can read more on it here mirror.xyz/0x10072dfc2377110…
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Wanted to do a quick video talking about Spend Permissions and why we pivoted (for now) from "Session Keys."
@ilikesymmetry and @0xlsr also discussed at Devcon, link to timestamp piped.video/9daSgrLWIgY?si=GssH…
Learn more about Spend Permissions here smartwallet.dev/guides/spend…
Watch the Devcon workshop on Spend Permissions! piped.video/watch?v=9daSgrLW…
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Should @transmissions11 and I live code a Squeeth short selling 4626 vault?
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Developers can get up to $15k in Coinbase developer platform gas credits.
This could sponsor over 1.5M transactions.
An online business could do over 1.5M transactions with 0 processing fee.
Few
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Excited about this! Paying gas with any token is one of the great promises of ERC-4337, and we're excited to start delivering on it.
For now, you'll see this screen when an app is using an ERC-20 paymaster. But we're working to make alt gas payment options always available.
Paymaster now allows users to pay for gas with custom ERC-20 tokens on @Base!
This feature enables increased token utility, easier app engagement, and the ability for users to pay gas with USDC or custom tokens instead of ETH.
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Going through the Squeeth contracts. Might do a full overview if I can get my head around it all. For now will just highlight interesting things / nice solidity
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Here's the crazy thing: Smart Wallet might be the simplest single sign on across the web, full stop.
No Facebook/Apple/Google account needed. A self custody credential that can log you in everywhere.
If I'm a web2 dev and want easy onboarding, it's very attractive.
I don’t think it’s possible to overstate how much of a difference passkeys + smart contract wallet + Base are going to make for the usability of crypto.
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*Slaps the door of Base chain*
We're going to make this baby so fast and cheap you're not going to believe it
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gm! Quick vid on some of the recent quality of life improvements for Smart Wallet.
Let us know what you think and what else you'd like to see :) smartwallet.dev
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What are our top priorities?
- Scaling: Chain needs to be cheaper / higher capacity
- Connection: Solana bridge 🔜
- Privacy: for every onchain action
- Account: AA has given us a lot, but we need it faster, cheaper, and closer to the core protocol
excited that @WilsonCusack is expanding his role to lead all things @base chain, including scaling, decentralization, privacy, markets, and account.
one of the most visionairy technical leaders I've ever worked with and I'm excited for him to take on even more.
new day one 🫡
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I help run a weekly "Social Solidity Review" at Coinbase, where we review contracts people have written or just want to discuss. Have already reviewed two repos by @FrankieIsLost! Good code, good docs. Great pickup by Paradigm.
But ser, what is going on with these commas😁
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I joined Coinbase in 2020 and worked here through '21 when it wasn't so well loved on CT.
In '22 the tide started to turn, and CT was very pro Coinbase in '23 and '24.
It was pretty easy to predict the pendulum would swing back a bit. That's ok :) We stay building
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I’ve never met @paulg, but my understanding is this what he did for many and taught others to do.
I know it’s certainly what @sama did for me and others
“Most people never, ever forget the first person to give them a sizable advance on their own self-confidence.
There's no greater security in life than being a serial enabler of wonderful people”
(@webdevMason)
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Kinda feels like there's a need for a micro-cap trading API/terminal.
I want to see and explore all the creator and content coins, but feels like they're buried or non existent on existing DEX explorers.
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Made a little example PWA using Smart Wallet to show people what that experience could look like smart-wallet-pwa.vercel.app
I think we can make this even better and would be happy to hear feedback!
Code here github.com/wilsoncusack/smar…
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What is the Base Account team working on right now? A lot!
- Upgrades to Shopify flow, with embedded iframe (no popups!) and a new one-step, scan to pay
- Support for Spend Permissions in @baseapp Mini Apps
- AA v2: exploring how to make ERC-4337 faster and cheaper on Base
- Support for non-passkey auth
- Private payments
- Associated account spec, neutral standard for two addresses to associate with one another for multi-account management
- "Connect as Sub Account" allowing you to connect any app account to any other site, using "Sign in with Base"
- ERC-7702 account access on web
and more! 😅 Some of these landing v soon. Some will take a bit longer.
What's missing?
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*3 months ago*: first commit
*2 days ago*: keys.coinbase.com/developers
*bangs the Coinbase door*: This baby ships!
😀
"Base will win because Coinbase" is the new "what if Google builds this?"
CT (unsurprisingly) greatly overestimates the speed and focus of a large organization vs that of missionary startups
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This is exciting! One 10x unlock from this is dead simple: your server wallets can now use CDP paymasters. Never think about ETH or managing a balance to pay gas ever again. Just use a paymaster and pay monthly in USD (or crypto).
🚀Smart wallets now available in CDP’s Wallet API
Just in time for ETH Denver, we’re excited to announce that CDP’s Wallet API now supports creating smart wallets through a simple API call. Smart wallets are a game-changer for frontend embedded wallets, and now seamlessly integrate into backend dev workflows.
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Very proud to have helped ship this :)
The biggest barrier to growing onchain adoption is the complexity of onboarding.
We’re excited to introduce our smart wallet solution to help make onchain onboarding faster, easier, and safer. Available on testnet for developers now.
Learn more: coinbase.com/blog/evolving-w…
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Coinbase was off this last week, and I got a chance to work on something I've been thinking about for quite a while.
byte.racing
more soon 😎🏎️
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Hello, world!
SO SO SO excited to share this. We spent a long time trying to solve for the stickiest parts of NFT-backed lending, and I am really proud of what we came up with.
backed.mirror.xyz/8SslPvU8of…
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Also, I now need to replace myself as product lead for Base Account. A TON of work to be done. We don't have a job listing yet, but please DM me if of interest.
Eng background is a must have. Previous onchain account work strongly desired :)
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Proud of the work I did in 2023!
- Launched paprMeme and worked for months to make the best we could
- Made voter.wtf
- contracts for propdates.wtf
- Joined Base, helped ship onchainsummer.xyz
- Helped make opviem.sh
- Last couple months on Base + Coinbase stuff I'm excited about :)
Turned 30 this year and feel like I'm entering the best working years of my life. Excited for 2024!
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Some changes for Coinbase Wallet on the web that have been live for a few weeks now but we haven't shared about!
Users now land on this screen. Updates...
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Coinbase is having an internal hackathon on Base/onchain summer stuff later this week. Let us know if there’s specific things you want to see fixed/built/improved!
Would be fun to hack with ppl outside CB, too. Eg let’s outfit viem/wagmi with better op stack tools :)
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Quick demo of the Sub Account management features now live on account.base.app
Sub Accounts enable Base Account users to
- Enjoy popup free in-app experiences, when they want it
- See and manage all their app accounts in on place
1/ Every Friday, we ship to make building on Privy better.
Today: @base Sub Accounts now work out of the box with our embedded wallets.
This means fewer prompts and a smoother UX.
Ideal for games and apps with a high frequency of transactions.
Here's how it works.
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ok, now we're cooking
On evmrepl.com you can now load code by address, edit that code, and make calls with your newly edited code against existing onchain state! 🤯
The magic of forking, for the masses
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My goal at Base is to do the best work of my life. Championship team.
Would love to work with you if you are
- humble
- optimistic
- hard working
- highly competent
if you're an engineer interested in working on:
- smart wallets + account abstraction
- cross-chain execution + abstraction
- scaling blockspace + blobspace
we are tackling all the hardest challenges, at scale, with an incredible team.
DM me on farcaster or apply below
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Excited to share some news! First, @backed_xyz has received funding from Coinbase Ventures. The other core contributors (@jringenberg , cnasc, and @gobran_ ) and I will now be working on it full time! Couldn’t be more excited
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I have one goal right now: help developers build amazing experiences using Smart Wallet.
We'll have new docs coming out this week. Please reach out if I can help with anything.
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Real talk, Squeeth is extremely inspiring to me. Congrats to all legends involved.
I can't believe we live in a world where someone can have an novel insight and N months later it is a financial instrument usable by anyone in the world.
Make me very excited for the future.
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🗣️ "I don't want to add a bunch of crypto packages to my site"
Just drop a lil script tag in and you're good to go with Base Pay docs.base.org/base-account/q…
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Alright guys, first day on the Base team. Prepare for a lot of really stupid, how-do-you-not-know-this type, rollup/OP Stack questions/comments over the next N weeks 😀
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August was solid. Still so much to do and improve! Really excited about what's in the pipeline
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I returned to Coinbase almost exactly a year ago. I did so because I had a feeling working on the Base team would be a career highlight, and I haven’t been disappointed.
We’re hiring. Come do work you’ll be proud of for the rest of your life.
nothing better than making a hire and in their first week everyone telling you they are bringing 10x energy.
the @base team is firing on all cylinders and the addition of @fkpxls, @ilikesymmetry, and @spicypaprika_ took it to the next level
join us: base.org/jobs
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gakonst is legit trying to level up the entire EVM ecosystem. And I think is succeeding. Respect
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More on Smart Wallet!
- Recovery + repayable transactions, generally.
- What we've been work on since the ETH Denver demo and what's coming up next.
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Coinbase hackathon going on right now! Hacked on a little 3074 <> 4337 demo
github.com/coinbase/smart-wa…
(thanks @vex_0x and @annascarroll for all the building blocks)
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Session key are coming. Prepare 🫡
just built a 10x better onchain feed in 4 hours
the combination of @base, @OnchainKit, and @coinbase smart wallet session keys are insanely powerful — new onchain UX paradigm unlocked
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Base is hiring for a staff smart contract eng (Solidity). Looking for one or more of
- Built protocol with significant DAUs and/or significant TVL
- Owner/maintainer of highly used Solidity contract library
- Highly experienced auditor who also codes
boards.greenhouse.io/embed/j…
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Add usdc express checkout to your website with Base Pay! docs.base.org/base-account/r…
(and please give feedback on devx and docs!)
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Base Build
Worldcoin is a beautiful story of determinate optimism: the team picks very hard problem, where solving it leads to obviously huge outcomes, and then works through bear and bull cycles to make it happen.
Congrats to all involved!
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With smart accounts + passkeys, I think we’re getting close to ideal internet credential. Users can
1. Create signers
2. Associate many signers with one identity
3. Manage signers on a public, auditable, and permissionless platform
Oh and it has payments + identity built in
Another lens: if Apple, Google, OnePassword etc are all allowing credential creation via passkeys, then to devs we appear as a one stop shop that aggregates all these into one product.
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If you've built on Base and Solana, what are some of the biggest thing Base is missing or could do to improve?
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"we maintain a short pork position as a hedge on our kitchen's pork demand so that we can stay delta neutral and keep prices low for you and your family"
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NFT-controlled LP positions as the Uniswap v3 default LP path was a mistake and has incurred a huge amount of gas cost for barely used composability functionality
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