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what if tens of millions more people had instant access to trade assets on @base?

Something I've really struggled with thinking about mass crypto adoption 

1. Crypto is mostly good for trading 
2. Most people are terrible traders

Founder, designer, & product guy at /basepaint and /eigenlayer

100 % - but it is hard to change user behavior. A new Paradigma shift is necessary to archive a change .

I agree! But it's where 90% of the innovation and user demand is and it's something I wrestle with.

crypto is good for lots of other things than trading imo :)

crypto itself is just an asset ledger. “next gen financial rails”. most things that happen on financials rails is not trading per se, just transactions.

my sense is that most of what happens next as we continue into mainstream looks incredibly boring to natives.

So bad that in the uk all CFD providers have to place a warning that 90% of people trading CFDs lose all their money

You've hit on a key challenge for the space. The speculative aspect often overshadows the foundational technology. I believe mass adoption will be driven by use cases where users don't even need to know they're using crypto—things like seamless digital identity, verifiable credentials, or more transparent creator ec...