Coinbase's Jesse Pollak steps back from Base app leadership after admitting his crypto social strategy failed
Jesse Pollak is stepping back from leading the Base app after admitting that his strategy to focus on crypto-native social applications failed to gain traction. Coinbase will take over the app's development, shifting the focus toward trading, payments, and AI infrastructure.
The Base creator said he had spent the last two years betting that builders and onchain-native social experiences, including Farcaster , Zora, mini apps and creator coins, would fuel crypto's next growth wave. But in a post on X on Wednesday , he said while developers did spur adoption through products like stablecoins, prediction markets and perpetual futures, social applications "disintegrated completely."
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