Crypto needs more than launchpads for mass adoption
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Last week, I wrote about the three killer-est apps of the cycle: Polymarket, Hyperliquid, pump.fun.
Notice that none of them is on Base.
Base has now had two shots at facilitating a potential killer crypto app already this cycle: AI agent launchpad Virtuals Protocol, the “Wall Street for AI Agents,” and now social media platform Zora, with the latter seeing two decent runs in the past 18 months.
Between December 2024 and January 2025 — peak Truth Terminal hype — Virtuals generated almost $11 million in net revenue, according to Blockworks Research data, during which time more than 13,000 different AI agents were tokenized.
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