On September 17, Jesse Pollak, founder of Base, gave an opening speech at FarCon Asia, Asia’s first large-scale Farcaster ecosystem offline event:
It's been a full year since the launch of the Base protocol. Base now has its own culture, mission, vision and strategy. What we're really focused on is how to promote Base to the world. Base plans to go to different parts of the world and talk to builders to understand how we can support them and how Base can help them achieve greater success. The Base network has allowed the world to really begin to see consumer use cases for crypto beyond money, and developers can build social products in a new way that is open to everyone. So in terms of Base, we're really focused on supporting builders who are building social applications. I think these applications will bring the next wave of users, allowing us to go from millions of people today to billions of people on the chain in the next few years.
In terms of stablecoins, the most exciting ones are actually non-US dollar stablecoins. Base needs Singapore dollar stablecoins, Euro stablecoins, and Nigerian naira stablecoins. If Base can put all the currencies in the world on the chain, it will completely change people's perception of currency. It's like having to use a new currency, but it's ten times faster and ten times cheaper. Global users will get better financial services. Base wants to cultivate a truly vibrant ecosystem, an application that gives anyone a reason to participate. We want to build a truly deep capital market that allows people to trade efficiently with high liquidity.
FarCon Asia, the first large-scale offline Farcaster ecosystem event in Asia, is jointly organized by Tako Protocol, BlockBeats and Jam. The conference aims to deeply explore and showcase the innovative achievements of the Farcaster ecosystem and the future prospects of Web3 social networking, breaking the stereotype of one-way output in traditional financial encryption conferences. The FarCon Asia conference is expected to attract more than 500 participants, including Farcaster ecosystem builders, active Farcaster ecosystem users in Asia, VCs and well-known investors, senior researchers, etc.
