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@jessepollak on X · Most upvoted by Kiwi News readers
19 stories by @jessepollak on X have been shared on Kiwi News since 11 September 2024, with 48 upvotes and 12 comments in total. The latest was shared on 15 July 2026. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- DEGEN comes to Coinbase
- Jesse Pollak on "Base selling ETH" controversies
Jesse Pollak argues that purity tests such as whether Base holds all the ETH it earns are a distraction that hurts Ethereum, and that the priority should be building products people love and sustainable economies. He says Base's goal is to bring the world onchain, funded by a sustainable economic engine that generates revenue and reinvests it in salaries, grants, acquisitions, infrastructure, and about 15% of revenue to public goods funding via Optimism. Base also holds over 100K ETH, which he describes as a privilege earned through delivering value. He acknowledges its reporting is not as transparent as it could be, since quarterly reporting follows the structure of a public US company, and says Base is working to move more operations onchain.
- @jessepollak: putting content onchain from the very beginning
- "Why Base?" from Brian Armstrong
- @jessepollak: Contentcoin
- @jessepollak: Every Base memecoin is now on Coinbase
- 24H volume on @base hit a new ATH at $2.3B
- yesterday @base broke 10m tx for the first time
- 2024 Base recap
- one million ETH bridged to @base
- @jessepollak: Base pivots from social to global finance after Q1 2026 setback
Base leader Jesse Pollak says he was wrong to bet that onchain social experiences would drive crypto adoption, and Base is now focusing on global finance. He says Farcaster, Zora, miniapps and creator coins disintegrated in the first quarter of 2026, leaving Base behind scaled competitors in perpetuals and prediction markets. Pollak has handed the Base app back to Coinbase, where Cobie will take it over, and says Base's 2026 priorities are trading, payments and agents. He names Robinhood and Stripe as formidable competitors.
- @jessepollak: Base-Solana bridge was publicly announced 5 months ago
Jesse Pollak says the Base-Solana bridge was built over nine months and publicly announced five months ago, and he disputes claims that Base did not talk to Solana teams or partners. He says the team repeatedly sought engagement from the Solana ecosystem but found little interest, though projects including trencher and chillhouse collaborated on it. He describes the bridge as two-way, saying Solana teams want access to Base and Base teams want access to Solana. He also says he is working with Vibhu to understand where the Solana Foundation collaboration went wrong.
- @jessepollak: Benji Taylor joins Base as Head of Design to build best brand
- jesse: "the points to @base pipeline will be strong https://t.co/HQbMwkjWtU"
- Base plan to enable millions of high quality coins with real value flows
- @jessepollak: nuanced take on content coins and onchain signaling
Jesse Pollak says a post he wrote was not about potential gains, but an observation that the onchain feed is now a better source than X. He also says he never claimed content coins should not be used for speculation, only that speculation is not the sole reason people will collect content. In his view, collecting can also serve to support creators and signal something, and speculation is an important part of the onchain economy that can be very powerful when directed well.
- @jessepollak: Lessons from restarting a restaurant
- Biggest philosophical differences between Solana + SVM and Ethereum + EVM
The biggest philosophical difference between Solana with SVM and Ethereum with EVM is their differing views on what can be built onchain with smart contracts. Solana's current perspective is that only about six contracts are worth writing, so those are enshrined and reused, with less focus on verification, open source, and extension. The Solana mission is described as a decentralized Nasdaq focused on capital markets, while the EVM mindset holds that there are roughly infinite contracts to build, leading to open-source, verified, extensible code and a mission to build a global economy that includes capital markets and much more.
- 1 billion transactions on @base — and it's still day one