2025 was about shipping creator-aligned features that can scale with their audience.
My focus this year was building an onchain creator protocol that turns content into sustainable creator economies without imposing complexity on users.
The most important launch was Loyalty Coins.
Loyalty Coins give creators a native way to align incentives with their audience, reward participation, and build long-term ownership models instead of transactional drops. This became especially relevant as major platforms like Coinbase began embracing creator coins via protocols like Zora.
Looking ahead, 2026 will be the year social and crypto meaningfully converge. Loyalty Coins represent the next evolution of reward programs, applying crypto primitives to fix the fragmentation and inefficiencies of traditional loyalty systems.
When crypto becomes boring, that’s when it has succeeded.
This year, stablecoins reached real usability, infrastructure matured, and regulatory clarity improved. Blockchain is becoming less visible exactly where it needs to be for mainstream adoption.
AI also changed how we execute. Planning, implementation, and review are now AI-assisted, allowing small teams to ship complex, production-ready systems with much higher velocity.
Reflecting on the year, the biggest shift wasn’t any single feature — it was leverage.
Better primitives, abstraction, and AI-native development are redefining what small teams can build. That acceleration continues into 2026. 🫡
$jesse significantly increased base gas prices during launch . Seems like there’s still work to do @base.base.eth especially if other Base apps were affected by the launch. Most users couldn’t mint on our platform due to huge gas fees.
PSA: This is a big reason why we launched @blueprint protocol without a v4 hook because we expected this type of issue to occur. This should be a learning lesson to those trying to launch your own custom v4 hook pools. Reach out to @uniswap / @matchaxyz beforehand to make sure they can support your setup prior to launch. We’re extremely grateful for @matchaxyz for the support. 🫡
The flywheel is simple:
Every time you collect my content, you earn $MINT.
> The more you collect, the more you earn.
> The more you earn, the more you show support.
> The more you show support, the clearer it becomes who’s been loyal.
Any DEX aggregators that can help add swap routing support for $mint token ?
Noticed swap routing is suboptimal with significant price impact since our Uniswap v4 pools are not being utilized at the moment
