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Base 2026 Mission, Vision, and Strategy

Our mission is to build a global economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom. In 2025, we set out to grow this economy across five pillars: builders, apps, ownership, markets, and bringing everyone onchain. We processed over $17T in stablecoin volume across 26 local currencies and 17 countries. We became the #1 onchain venue for BTC spot trading. We launched and grew the Base App in 140+ countries. We funded 50+ teams through Base Batches and saw new crypto native markets emerg...

Ride It to the Sky

Last year i built an ai biographer for my parents. I wanted to capture their life stories and learn about ai voice. With my friend Avi, we built an agent that would talk to my mom and dad on the phone and it was trained to ask them personalized questions about their life. After each “chapter” was completed a separate agent would write it up Walter Isaacson style for everyone to read so people could follow along as the stories were told. Since then we have been experimenting with new ways to c...

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Brandon Donnelly

The hidden cost of regulatory fat

In the olden days here in Toronto, approved development land used to sell for a premium compared to unapproved land. This was true because approved land meant you could start construction much sooner. And since time has value, this was worth something. Today, this is far less valuable to developers (if at all) because, in most cases, the market does not support new construction. So, the land may be approved, but what does one do with it? Rather than speed, I would say that the most valuable f...

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Hard Mode First

5 Benefits of Thinking Like an Engineer at Work

Adopting an Engineering MindsetOver the past 2 years, I’ve been aggressively leaning AI. While a lot of people might presume that this means I’m simply throwing myself into the newest tools of the day, I’ve found that the bigger benefit has not been about learning new tools — or even the productivity gains. It’s been learning how to think like an engineer. Here are the four core skills that I’ve noticed myself applying more liberally than ever before in my career:Decomposition: Taking a big p...

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Ride It to the Sky

I no longer have a home on the internet. My online identity exists in fragments spread across various platforms, most of which are walled gardens. My home first existed in AOL and my AIM profile. My friends and I loved them and it’s how we’d express who we were online. Then it shifted to MySpace. Then Facebook. Then Tumblr. Then Twitter. Then Instagram. Then my blog. Also LinkedIn. It’s everywhere. I don’t have a single place I can drive people to. It used to be my blog, but that’s just the t...

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Aave V4 Goes Live On Ethereum

Aave V4 is now live for over 20 assets across three initial liquidity hubs. The launch includes a new interface called Aave Pro.

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Notes From The Oversky

The Network State Of Mind

As I write these words, sitting across from me is a man worth billions. He’s in a plain white t-shirt, black shorts, and sandals, sipping a three-dollar coffee, no different from mine....

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The Visual Renaissance (and How to Own It)

Back in the MTV days, a "music video" meant a six-figure check, a crew of forty, and three months of post-production hell. Now those types of budgets are quickly ending.

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29 Seconds of Farcaster

29 Seconds of Farcaster, March 30, 2026

29 Seconds of Farcaster ... What did you miss this weekend? @nickysap released a new Farcaster client with built-in audio spaces | https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0xb56d9f83 @unooo.eth is headed in a different direction from Farcaster client to Makechain client. I'd love to explain what that means, but I can't 🤷‍♂ | https://farcaster.xyz/christopher/0xc6cb67c2 Farcaster Agentic Bootcamp starts today, who's in? | https://farcaster.xyz/limone.eth/0xc2eef950 Degen NFTs were revealed ... saw some on ...

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Tasklet's Task Computer

Our portfolio company Tasklet is a platform for making agents that do things for you. USV uses it to create agents that automate a lot of work for us. This post, which I mentioned last week, explains how USV uses Tasklet. Recently, Tasklet launched a feature called Task Computer which is a Linux computer in the cloud that can do things for you and automate them. My wife, The Gotham Gal, is using Task Computer to log into her Instagram account, go to her Instagram Collections, and pull out all...

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Brandon Donnelly

On the future of cities

Bruno Carvalho has just published a new book that is right in the wheelhouse of this blog. It's called The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World. The book starts in the mid-18th century with cities like Lisbon, Paris, and London. However, more than being just a history of cities, it is (from what I've read) the story of how city builders throughout history have tried to predict and create the future, only to often get it wrong. In the words of Carvalho (via CityLab)...

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Pioneering Spirit

Walking the World Machines

A dozen years ago, a guy named Paul started walking the earth and writing letters. This isn’t biblical though. It’s a NatGeo mashup of anthropology and slow journalism. Beginning in Ethiopia, he recently made it to the far North of the Americas. This travelogue isn’t any old walk mind you, but an effort to retrace the steps homo sapiens took out of Africa across the other major land masses that make up our terrestrial existence on our home planet. Every few months, I’ll poke my head into that...

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Brandon Donnelly

Sidewalks as a bug

I'm a big fan of walking. I like it for the health benefits, the freedom to explore, and the simple luxury of being able to walk to things. In fact, it's an important housing prerequisite for me: can I walk to stuff? But as we often talk about on this blog, the ability to do this depends largely on the prevailing land use patterns, the overall built environment, and, to a great extent, when a neighborhood was built. It is commonly argued that the "best" neighborhoods were all built before the...

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This Week in All Things AI

This Week in All Things AI - Week 13-2026

Dreamer which launched just a month ago by Hugo Barra and David Singleton got execu-hired by Meta and joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs. I'm also very piqued by Littlebird with its 'agent-on-a-shoulder' approach via 'screen reading'. Whilst Anthropic definitely impacted its fans by tightening Claude's usage during peak hours, both OpenAI and Zhipu responding with increased rate limits and in the case of Zhipu launch of GLM-5.1 exclusively for now via its coding plan and showing via its ben...

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Nye's Digital Lab

The Sprint Battlefield

This week I'm studying Ukrainian Drone Development, and how rapid learning is life or death.

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Brandon Donnelly

Competition and redistribution

I recently joked that, because of AI, everyone now sends you a 50-page PDF for review. Of course, what we all do next is just ask AI to summarize the PDF and help prepare a response. So, the net effect is AI talking to AI. We're all becoming a kind of intermediary because the volume of information is simply too great for any human to reasonably process. In many ways, this can feel overwhelming. It also makes me feel like it's hard to maintain a long attention span. But this appears to be wher...

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ZK Nethermind Executes Ethereum Blocks

The Nethermind team successfully executed Ethereum mainnet blocks on Zisk, a RISC-V–based zkVM, using ZK-Nethermind.

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Hard Mode First

The Great DisconnectThe AI revolution promised to level the playing field. Instead it’s teaching me (from the inside) exactly how the playing field stays tilted.January should have been a pivotal month for my business. After one year of striking out alone, it was the first time I cleared enough in bookings to pay myself the salary I’d been holding out on for the past year. But there was just one problem: Every single client paid me late. On paper I was sitting on $30k of corporate bookings, b...

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We're diving into personal history in issue #289 of your weekly poetry shot

📉 🧑‍🔬 I fail waaaaaay more than most people. (This is a good thing.)

OK, I recently heard a scientist say: "They’ve proven that successful people have way...

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Base 2026 Mission, Vision, and Strategy

Our mission is to build a global economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom. In 2025, we set out to grow this economy across five pillars: builders, apps, ownership, markets, and bringing everyone onchain. We processed over $17T in stablecoin volume across 26 local currencies and 17 countries. We became the #1 onchain venue for BTC spot trading. We launched and grew the Base App in 140+ countries. We funded 50+ teams through Base Batches and saw new crypto native markets emerg...

Ride It to the Sky

Last year i built an ai biographer for my parents. I wanted to capture their life stories and learn about ai voice. With my friend Avi, we built an agent that would talk to my mom and dad on the phone and it was trained to ask them personalized questions about their life. After each “chapter” was completed a separate agent would write it up Walter Isaacson style for everyone to read so people could follow along as the stories were told. Since then we have been experimenting with new ways to c...

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Brandon Donnelly

The hidden cost of regulatory fat

In the olden days here in Toronto, approved development land used to sell for a premium compared to unapproved land. This was true because approved land meant you could start construction much sooner. And since time has value, this was worth something. Today, this is far less valuable to developers (if at all) because, in most cases, the market does not support new construction. So, the land may be approved, but what does one do with it? Rather than speed, I would say that the most valuable f...

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Hard Mode First

5 Benefits of Thinking Like an Engineer at Work

Adopting an Engineering MindsetOver the past 2 years, I’ve been aggressively leaning AI. While a lot of people might presume that this means I’m simply throwing myself into the newest tools of the day, I’ve found that the bigger benefit has not been about learning new tools — or even the productivity gains. It’s been learning how to think like an engineer. Here are the four core skills that I’ve noticed myself applying more liberally than ever before in my career:Decomposition: Taking a big p...

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Ride It to the Sky

I no longer have a home on the internet. My online identity exists in fragments spread across various platforms, most of which are walled gardens. My home first existed in AOL and my AIM profile. My friends and I loved them and it’s how we’d express who we were online. Then it shifted to MySpace. Then Facebook. Then Tumblr. Then Twitter. Then Instagram. Then my blog. Also LinkedIn. It’s everywhere. I don’t have a single place I can drive people to. It used to be my blog, but that’s just the t...

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Aave V4 Goes Live On Ethereum

Aave V4 is now live for over 20 assets across three initial liquidity hubs. The launch includes a new interface called Aave Pro.

Post cover image

Notes From The Oversky

The Network State Of Mind

As I write these words, sitting across from me is a man worth billions. He’s in a plain white t-shirt, black shorts, and sandals, sipping a three-dollar coffee, no different from mine....

Post cover image

The Visual Renaissance (and How to Own It)

Back in the MTV days, a "music video" meant a six-figure check, a crew of forty, and three months of post-production hell. Now those types of budgets are quickly ending.

Post cover image

29 Seconds of Farcaster

29 Seconds of Farcaster, March 30, 2026

29 Seconds of Farcaster ... What did you miss this weekend? @nickysap released a new Farcaster client with built-in audio spaces | https://farcaster.xyz/rish/0xb56d9f83 @unooo.eth is headed in a different direction from Farcaster client to Makechain client. I'd love to explain what that means, but I can't 🤷‍♂ | https://farcaster.xyz/christopher/0xc6cb67c2 Farcaster Agentic Bootcamp starts today, who's in? | https://farcaster.xyz/limone.eth/0xc2eef950 Degen NFTs were revealed ... saw some on ...

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Tasklet's Task Computer

Our portfolio company Tasklet is a platform for making agents that do things for you. USV uses it to create agents that automate a lot of work for us. This post, which I mentioned last week, explains how USV uses Tasklet. Recently, Tasklet launched a feature called Task Computer which is a Linux computer in the cloud that can do things for you and automate them. My wife, The Gotham Gal, is using Task Computer to log into her Instagram account, go to her Instagram Collections, and pull out all...

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Brandon Donnelly

On the future of cities

Bruno Carvalho has just published a new book that is right in the wheelhouse of this blog. It's called The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World. The book starts in the mid-18th century with cities like Lisbon, Paris, and London. However, more than being just a history of cities, it is (from what I've read) the story of how city builders throughout history have tried to predict and create the future, only to often get it wrong. In the words of Carvalho (via CityLab)...

Post cover image

Pioneering Spirit

Walking the World Machines

A dozen years ago, a guy named Paul started walking the earth and writing letters. This isn’t biblical though. It’s a NatGeo mashup of anthropology and slow journalism. Beginning in Ethiopia, he recently made it to the far North of the Americas. This travelogue isn’t any old walk mind you, but an effort to retrace the steps homo sapiens took out of Africa across the other major land masses that make up our terrestrial existence on our home planet. Every few months, I’ll poke my head into that...

Post cover image

Brandon Donnelly

Sidewalks as a bug

I'm a big fan of walking. I like it for the health benefits, the freedom to explore, and the simple luxury of being able to walk to things. In fact, it's an important housing prerequisite for me: can I walk to stuff? But as we often talk about on this blog, the ability to do this depends largely on the prevailing land use patterns, the overall built environment, and, to a great extent, when a neighborhood was built. It is commonly argued that the "best" neighborhoods were all built before the...

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This Week in All Things AI

This Week in All Things AI - Week 13-2026

Dreamer which launched just a month ago by Hugo Barra and David Singleton got execu-hired by Meta and joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs. I'm also very piqued by Littlebird with its 'agent-on-a-shoulder' approach via 'screen reading'. Whilst Anthropic definitely impacted its fans by tightening Claude's usage during peak hours, both OpenAI and Zhipu responding with increased rate limits and in the case of Zhipu launch of GLM-5.1 exclusively for now via its coding plan and showing via its ben...

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Nye's Digital Lab

The Sprint Battlefield

This week I'm studying Ukrainian Drone Development, and how rapid learning is life or death.

Post cover image

Brandon Donnelly

Competition and redistribution

I recently joked that, because of AI, everyone now sends you a 50-page PDF for review. Of course, what we all do next is just ask AI to summarize the PDF and help prepare a response. So, the net effect is AI talking to AI. We're all becoming a kind of intermediary because the volume of information is simply too great for any human to reasonably process. In many ways, this can feel overwhelming. It also makes me feel like it's hard to maintain a long attention span. But this appears to be wher...

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ZK Nethermind Executes Ethereum Blocks

The Nethermind team successfully executed Ethereum mainnet blocks on Zisk, a RISC-V–based zkVM, using ZK-Nethermind.

Post cover image

Hard Mode First

The Great DisconnectThe AI revolution promised to level the playing field. Instead it’s teaching me (from the inside) exactly how the playing field stays tilted.January should have been a pivotal month for my business. After one year of striking out alone, it was the first time I cleared enough in bookings to pay myself the salary I’d been holding out on for the past year. But there was just one problem: Every single client paid me late. On paper I was sitting on $30k of corporate bookings, b...

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We're diving into personal history in issue #289 of your weekly poetry shot

📉 🧑‍🔬 I fail waaaaaay more than most people. (This is a good thing.)

OK, I recently heard a scientist say: "They’ve proven that successful people have way...