Base

On @threadguy's livestream, @jessepollak broke down the difference between today’s walled gardens and what’s possible onchain

@base builder #001; onchain cities w/ OAK & city3

threadguy on farcaster | not threadguy on twitter 

i’m 1000% for onchain creators, but this feels a bit disingenuous

Jesse, someone with the greatest distribution on base, makes $6k on a mint on Zora but the same wouldn’t happen for someone with minimal distribution onchain

in fact, a new artist would have to *pay* to put their music onchain and may get no mints

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

are we still in the early days of distribution? yes, absolutely. but if you do a side by side comparison, it's clearly 10x better. 

- person with distribution: clear path to making 10x more onchain
- person without distribution: no way to make money offchain, make money on day onchain, even if it's limited by distro. 

also anyone can create for free on platforms like @zora.

to make this more explicit: if you as a new creator start offchain, you literally have zero pathway to making money until you build a scaled audience. onchain, you make money day one. do you still need to go viral? absolutely. but you'll get paid when you do, immediately.