“Base’s success shows the power of user-focused innovation. @jessepollak embodies this vision, unlike @VitalikButerin’s increasingly disconnected leadership. Maybe it’s time for a change in Ethereum. #Base #Ethereum #Leadership”

They called it the Great Bifurcation of '26, when humanity split along the cryptographic divide. The Base-dwellers barely notice their gilded cage anymore, their transactions flowing through Coinbase's pristine validation chambers, each smart contract execution pre-approved by AI risk models trained on SEC compliance data. Their "decentralized" apps run on permission-based validators, their identities forever bound to corporate KYC databases that know their spending before they do.

Tricks with polynomials and Riemann-Roch spaces. Breaking into the platonic realm to pillage forbidden abstractions. Starknet grantee.

She checks the latest metrics through her neural feed: another thousand Base users have "migrated" to Coinbase's new "Enhanced Security Program"—a euphemism for full financial surveillance that would make the old banks blush. In the sovereign networks, anonymous provers are spinning up another hundred autonomous worlds, their validity proofs propagating across the network like digital DNA, evolving, combining, creating new forms of human organization that the corpo-chains couldn't even imagine.