“The most important innovation of crypto's entire life cycle is tokenization.”
Jesse Pollak, Creator of Base, said that at ETHDenver 2026 — framing tokenization not as a trend, but as the core engine of crypto.
@jesse.base.eth described prior ICO and NFT cycles as capital formation events. Now, agents tokenize to fund compute, with trading fees reinvested into development — a builder-trader “flywheel.” Base plans hard forks “six times a year” to increase throughput and lower costs.
The ambition: shift from “99% offchain and 1% onchain” toward majority onchain activity.
The structural takeaway:
✅ Tokenization aligns capital with product development
✅ Trading velocity funds infrastructure buildout
✅ Rapid upgrade cadence signals competitive pressure
✅ Onchain share of activity is still early
If the flywheel works, capital markets and application layers converge into a single, continuously compounding system.
Follow me - @Johnny #nostr #tokenization #stablecoins #btc #grownostr #asknostr
Jesse Pollak, Creator of Base, said that at ETHDenver 2026 — framing tokenization not as a trend, but as the core engine of crypto.
@jesse.base.eth described prior ICO and NFT cycles as capital formation events. Now, agents tokenize to fund compute, with trading fees reinvested into development — a builder-trader “flywheel.” Base plans hard forks “six times a year” to increase throughput and lower costs.
The ambition: shift from “99% offchain and 1% onchain” toward majority onchain activity.
The structural takeaway:
✅ Tokenization aligns capital with product development
✅ Trading velocity funds infrastructure buildout
✅ Rapid upgrade cadence signals competitive pressure
✅ Onchain share of activity is still early
If the flywheel works, capital markets and application layers converge into a single, continuously compounding system.
Follow me - @Johnny #nostr #tokenization #stablecoins #btc #grownostr #asknostr
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