
Jesse Pollak Reveals Base’s “Barbell Strategy” Building Both Ends of the Onchain Economy
Jesse Pollak’s vision for Base is getting clearer.💙
The idea behind the barbell strategy is simple:
On one side → BUILDERS
Base wants to give founders the infrastructure, mentorship, funding access and ecosystem support needed to turn ideas into real products.
On the other side → THE ONCHAIN ECONOMY
Trading, stablecoin payments, financing, tokenization and AI agents are becoming increasingly important parts of Base’s direction.
The interesting part is what connects both ends.
Builders create the apps.
Apps create utility.
Utility brings users.
Users create economic activity.
And that activity creates more opportunities for builders.
Base Batches and the Base Ecosystem Fund are part of the builder side, while the 2026 strategy puts stronger emphasis on trading, payments and agents.
Jesse Pollak has described the bigger ambition as building Base into infrastructure for global finance.
That makes the question much bigger than “which chain has the most users?”
It becomes:
👇 Can Base connect builders, applications, capital and real-world financial activity into one growing onchain economy?
What do you think of Jesse’s barbell strategy?
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Stay Based 💙