Welcome to Bedrock.
Bedrock is a publication about the future of the onchain economy. Each week, we'll explore the builders and ideas at the frontier, paving the way for a digital world that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom.
We believe that Base is establishing the cultural foundations—the bedrock—for an onchain renaissance: a new economy that fully leverages what the internet and Ethereum have to offer.
Our goal is to give you solid ground to stand on. To build a better world, you must believe in something, and you've got to keep a pulse on the world around you.
Let's see what the world is up to.
Dom’s recent Bedrock essay, A New Style for a New Internet, is a call to recognize that design is not neutral. The digital world, like the built world before it, is shaped by the values embedded in its forms. The minimalist, modernist aesthetic that has dominated tech for decades is rooted in ideals of efficiency, scalability, and universality. But these ideals flatten difference, strip away context, and ultimately dehumanize.
As AI and decentralized technologies erode the old moats of technical skill and corporate control, the question of taste becomes urgent. Taste, in this sense, is not a matter of surface-level cool or trend-chasing. It is a moral orientation. It is a way of choosing, again and again, what kind of world to build and inhabit.
Today’s onchain builders, like the medieval guilds, have the chance to reclaim this agency. They can choose to make things that are expressive, situated, and alive to the particularities of their communities. The forms we choose—our interfaces, our protocols, our narratives—shape the kinds of relationships and forms of life that become possible. Each design decision is a wager on what kind of internet, and what kind of society, we want to bring into being.
A must read.
Traditional financial markets get their daily dose of structured analysis through shows like CNBC's Squawk Box. TPBN recently brought a digital-native version of this daily show, call-in based format to tech. Crypto specifically, on the other hand, has been stuck with scattered Twitter threads and endless podcasts with no central place to go direct, live.
Enter Seed Club's 11AM – a daily show designed specifically for keeping a pulse on all things crypto.
Markets that trade 24/7 across global time zones demand real-time synthesis. The space moves too fast for traditional media cycles. A daily format creates the perfect feedback loop between rapid innovation and informed community discourse.
And frankly, Seed Club is uniquely positioned to own this space. Having spent years building at the intersection of media, community, and onchain investing, they understand both the technical nuances that matter and the cultural currents that drive adoption. Their network spans builders, investors, and thought leaders across every major protocol – high signal.
The team is expanding, actively hiring a growth and operations lead for 11AM.
Daily discipline breeds daily excellence. Keep an eye on 11AM.
Zora is attempting to solve one of the most persistent problems in creator economies: the misalignment between prolific output and collector incentives.
Instead of betting on individual pieces, collectors can now buy the creator coin – essentially an index representing all underlying assets by that creator. It's portfolio theory applied to digital creativity, allowing collectors to choose their level of exposure whether it's single viral post speculation or long-term creator belief.
For creators building sustainable onchain practices, this could be the infrastructure that finally makes consistent output economically rational.
If you believe that "software is content" and that new platforms will be built around an abundance of content in this new medium, then we're living through a TikTok 2016 moment.
TikTok recognized that short-form video was becoming the dominant content format, and they built the entire platform around making video creation as frictionless as possible. The result was an explosion of creativity that reshaped how we think about social media entirely.
Today, we're seeing the same dynamic with software. Mini apps, AI agents – just as TikTok made everyone a video creator, the emerging infrastructure is making everyone a software creator.
Base, Farcaster, and the broader mini app ecosystem are positioning themselves as the TikTok of software creation. It'll look very different, but if you're paying attention, the game is the same.
Act accordingly.
Base Batch Demo Day wrapped up all three sessions, showcasing the next generation of onchain builders.
cbADA and cbLTC are now live on Base. These ERC-20 tokens backed 1:1 by ADA and LTC held in Coinbase custody represent another step toward multi-chain asset availability in the Base ecosystem.
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