someone tell me everything about this base livestream after it ends. i’m not tuning in because i’m going to sleep

wen markdown support? here's my live notes from the stream. Full replay with live commentary: https://www.youtube.com/live/t3832dcDXlk?feature=shared&t=500

# Coinbase New Day One Event - Key Announcements 🚀

**Big Picture Mission:** *Increase innovation, creativity, freedom*

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## 🔄 Major Rebranding & Platform Evolution

### Base → BaseChain
- **HUGE:** Base is officially rebranding to "BaseChain" 
- New visual identity: Building block rectangle logo
- Breaking from previous brand guidelines that strictly avoided "Base Chain"

### Coinbase Wallet → tBa (the Base app)
- **New name:** tBa (blue b) = "the Base app"
- **Vision:** Superapp for the entire Base Ecosystem
- **Features:**
  - Farcaster Social Graph integration
  - Discovery engine
  - Apps built on Base
  - Chat functionality
  - Commerce and Trading
  - Powered by "open protocols"

**Note:** tBa remains in Beta but expanding access

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## 💳 Base Payments Revolution

**Presenter:** Aneri

### Key Features:
- **Fully USDC-powered** payment gateway
- **Tap to Pay** (Apple Pay style experience)
- **Sub $1, sub 1-second** transactions on Base
- **Flashblocks technology** enabling true sub-second speeds

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## 🔥 Mini Apps: The Content Evolution

**Aneri's Take:** *"Mini Apps aren't small, they are the next evolution of content"*

### What Makes Mini Apps Special:
- More interactive content experiences
- Engaging and re-engageable format
- **Case Study:** Morpho integration (featured on dTech blog)
- **Remix Mini App:** AI Studio for creating games with native social sharing

### For Developers:
- Permissionless to build and share
- 2-step webpage conversion available
- End of "API Access removed" and "App rejected" era

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## 🎯 Real-World Applications Showcased

### Noice
- **Concept:** Microtransactions as the next unlock (like UPI in India)
- **Innovation:** Earn funds through interactions (liking posts = tipping)
- Supporting creators through everyday actions

### Decentralized Pictures
- Community-driven film industry disruption
- Merit-based system for entertainment
- Mentorships and financing for new talent

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## 🔐 Base Account: The Identity Revolution

**Presenter:** Wilson Cusack

### "Sign in with Base" SDK
- Evolution of Smart Wallet technology
- **Vision:** Sovereign identity across the internet
- Competing with OpenAI, Apple, Google for primary login method
- **Timeline:** Tap to Pay coming end of year

### Strategic Partnership:
- **Shopify + Coinbase = Base Pay**
- USDC already integrated with Shopify

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## 📈 Massive Scale & Adoption

### Live Event Impact:
- **500k live viewers** (10x current Farcaster daily actives!)
- **100k people** on tBa waitlist opening today
- Public waitlist now available at **base.app**

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## 🎤 Industry Leader Insights

### Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) Key Points:
- **"Decentralized servers matter"**
- **"The open protocol app thesis is an inevitable outcome"**
- Tipping culture normalization through social livestreaming
- **"Capturing full economics of what you're doing"**
- Interest-driven algorithms > follower count
- **"Individual pieces of content find the audience"**

### Cleo Abram on Creator Economy:
- Key creator questions: "Can I make my idea real? How can I support this?"
- Onchain integration removes barriers to entry
- More funding possibilities = more pathways to dreams

### Success Story:
- **Pplpleasr:** Emmy nomination for crypto-funded "White Rabbit" movie
- Couldn't have been produced through traditional Hollywood

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## 🎯 Mission Unchanged

**Jesse's Final Thoughts:**
- Core mission remains: **"Bring a billion people onchain"**
- Opening app to 100,000 waitlist users immediately

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## 🔗 Key Resources

- **Mini Apps Development:** dtech.vision/farcaster/miniapps/
- **Morpho Case Study:** dtech.vision/blog/casestudy-farcaster-defi-frame-morpho/
- **Waitlist:** base.app

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**Bottom Line:** This isn't just a rebrand—it's a complete reimagining of how we interact with blockchain technology, making it as seamless as traditional web2 experiences while maintaining decentralization and user sovereignty.

🔍 ensdata.net ✦ 𝙽𝙾𝚆: design engineer @family ✦ 𝙿𝚁𝙴𝚅: @rainbow 🌈 ✦ 𝙱𝚄𝙸𝙻𝙳𝙸𝙽𝙶: @vision

Summary of my notes

https://farcaster.xyz/samuellhuber.eth/0x9eb63076