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

Congrats on the promo. With your new position, what do you feel like you will be more capable of effecting change on at Coinbase that was previously not possible?

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

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thanks! candidly, I feel pretty grateful that since I've been at the company for a long time + have a track record of delivering value, i've *already* been pretty in the loop on most company decisions.

that said i think with this change, i'll have more visibility + have a slightly stronger voice. and i'm hopeful that with that new platform, i'm able to push the company to lean more aggressively into our onchain future. the technology platform is finally ready and now we gotta go build all the incredible use cases that show the world what's really possible.

yes! we had our @base 2025 strategy offsite a couple weeks ago and once of the things that bubbled up was that we had to make a meaningful investment in privacy in the year ahead. we had similar feeling around L2 in 2023 and smart wallets in 2024. privacy is the next big technology upgrade for us to tackle.

Leaning forward into an on chain future, do you perceive a wind change with respect to embracing privacy preserving assets/technologies, or is this still out of scope for Coinbase?