Another interesting direction for Base could be decentralization through builders code. A large portion of base’s revenue could be redistributed to the builders who create products people actually use. This shifts part of the responsibility away from the Base team and toward the builders themselves - encouraging them to think about shipping qualtiy things, scaling, onboarding new users, and rewarding their own communities. Use the app --> get rewarded. Builders grow their products. Users feel more engaged and appreciated. In theory, everyone wins. But there are also clear downsides. Right now, a lot would depend on very primitive metrics — things like transaction counts - which are easy to game and don’t necessarily reflect real value. As we can see now, it looks something like this - --- artificial activity and metric farming --- short-term incentive design instead of long-term products --- builders optimizing for rewards rather than real users --- ecosystems filled with low-quality apps chasing the same metrics Still, the idea of sharing protocol revenue with the people actually building and onboarding users feels like a powerful direction worth experimenting with.