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Some of ARC's best ingredients are the people.
Thanks for joining us in our annual rituals during ARC Week 2026.
Thanks for joining us in our annual rituals during ARC Week 2026.
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Sat down with @Nibel_eth, APAC lead at Base.View quoted post on X
Had him on The Based Show to speak about his journey from Wall Street to the trenches, and where Base is heading next.
8 years in banking at JPMorgan and Citi. A founder in Web3, and one of the first Singaporean builders on Base.
Around 85% of all x402 transactions now run on Base.
Now he's leading the push to make Base the home of the agentic economy, where the next billion economic actors are agents.
Nick is one of the sharpest operators I've sat with on where AI and onchain finance are heading.
Full conversation below.
Timestamps:
1:10 Who Nick is: SMU, Citi, JPMorgan, now APAC lead at Base
1:56 Doubling his salary in two months and leaving banking for crypto
2:51 The Uniswap V2 white paper that pulled him in
4:54 From founder to leading Base in APAC
5:47 Why he bet on Base as one of its first Singaporean builders
7:40 Proving your value before anyone hires you
8:27 How Base's thesis evolved: memecoin season to AI agents
10:36 Why Malaysia is becoming Asia's builder hub
11:24 Base's north star: payments, stablecoins and bringing all assets onchain
13:02 x402 and agentic commerce: "the next billion economic actors will be agents"
14:02 Beyond agents: why robotics data is the next frontier
15:58 Base's robotics demo day at Network School
17:00 The Base x Network School founders residency
19:22 Building inside Coinbase: operating on the edge of what's possible
20:50 Coinbase's AI layoffs and the biggest displacement since the Industrial Revolution
22:47 How founders should play the next two years
24:20 What Base wants to be remembered for: 85% of x402 transactions
25:10 Tokenization and opening finance to emerging markets
25:49 The Base token question
27:09 One line to remember Base by
We're releasing our latest social data for FREE.View quoted post on X
Agents need real-time context beyond a stale web search to react as markets move.
Introducing Elfa v3: greater granularity, resolved relationships, and provenance on every signal.
New endpoints are free to call until Oct 31.