# $Based Manifesto

By [Buterin Sisters](https://paragraph.com/@buterin-sisters) · 2021-10-13

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1/ [$based](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24based&src=cashtag_click) is an aesthetic community, art in its primary function: to produce pleasure. The [$based](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24based&src=cashtag_click) market cap is just one metric to measure this commonly shared pleasure.

2/ Just as the development of science is largely the result of the work of anonymous artisans, the development of [$based](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24based&src=cashtag_click) is the result of a multitude of anonymous ghouls solving the practical problems of rover deployment.

3/ [$based](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24based&src=cashtag_click) is to [#DEFI](https://twitter.com/hashtag/DEFI?src=hashtag_click) what artisan glassmakers have been to astronomy: a history of engineers and illiterate artists.

4/ [$based](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24based&src=cashtag_click) is an "Apocalypse of Truth", cause [$based](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24based&src=cashtag_click) is like your buggy TV. It reveals the internal workings of the device and shows new possibilities through this BUG.

5/ When an old TV's bug, it makes a glitch, so you understand better how a CRT works. [$Based](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24Based&src=cashtag_click) is like this phenomenon, but for [#DEFI](https://twitter.com/hashtag/DEFI?src=hashtag_click).

6/ [$based](https://twitter.com/search?q=%24based&src=cashtag_click) is a [#DEFI](https://twitter.com/hashtag/DEFI?src=hashtag_click) Bug

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