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Are content coins good?
Sure, if your bar is doing something new, no matter how hollow.
But if you’re building the future of crypto: with access, financial sovereignty, and credibility in mind, this is a cop-out. Here’s why:
1. Experimentation is easy when it’s low-risk.
ERC20s with meme slogans aren’t brave. What is brave? Building infrastructure that lasts. Launching protocols that stand up to regulation. Supporting DeFi when it’s unfunded and untrendy.
2. “You don’t have to buy” isn’t an excuse.
When a @coinbase exec shills 6-figure microcaps, it is market signaling. That kind of attention warps incentives, draws scammers, and distracts devs from doing real work.
3. Norms aren’t sacred, but some values are.
Crypto wasn’t built to become a side-show of attention-grabbing pumps. It was built to rebuild trust, access, and systems. If you abandon that, you’re not edgy—you’re irrelevant. 2 replies
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4. The format isn’t just a file.
ERC-20s carry baggage: tokenomics, speculation, social pressure. You can’t just slap “art” on it and pretend it’s neutral. If it walks like a pump and talks like a pump…
5. Yes, people will treat these as pump-and-dumps.
Why? Because the leadership models that behavior. “Bots, pimping, squirting” isn’t abstract experimentation. It’s reckless marketing that sets crypto back a decade in legitimacy.
The reality is this:
@base could be the DeFi chain—the one that gets real products in front of real users, with compliance, scale, and meaning. Instead, you’ve given us content coin circus acts.
Coinbase has a responsibility, not just a right, to lead better.
Don’t waste the window.
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