In a move that screams “enough of this tomfoolery,” Base App has jettisoned its Farcaster-powered social feed, opting instead to focus on the serious business of onchain trading and asset activity.
Ah, the sweet sound of clarity! Base App, that erstwhile purveyor of digital chatter, has finally seen the light and narrowed its product scope to what truly matters: making money move. The non-custodial wallet, once known as Coinbase Wallet (a name that now feels as quaint as a rotary phone), has bid adieu to its Farcaster-powered social feed. No more idle gossip, no more “discovery”-just the cold, hard thrill of trading.
Base App Silences the Chatterboxes, Declares Trading Its Sole Mistress
A post shared on Monday, with all the solemnity of a vicar announcing the end of tea and biscuits, confirmed that the in-app Talk feed has been shown the door. In its place? A feed that displays only tradable assets and onchain activity. Coinbase, ever the pragmatist, also announced the winding down of its Base Creator Rewards program, with final payouts scheduled for later this month. One can almost hear the collective sigh of relief from the trading purists.
We’re making the Base app the best place to trade onchain. Starting today, the feed will focus entirely on tradable assets. This means we’re removing the Talk feed in favor of a feed of onchain activity.
As part of this shift, we’re also sunsetting Creator Rewards. In the last…
– Base App (@baseapp)
According to the team, the focus has shifted to making the app a dedicated haven for onchain trades. Over the past six months, the creator rewards program doled out more than $450,000 to roughly 17,000 creators-a figure that, one suspects, was shared with a hint of “well, that was a lark, wasn’t it?”
Jesse Pollak, with the air of a man who has just discovered the obvious, declared that the move reflects product clarity rather than a pullback from experimentation. In a separate post, he wrote that users should know exactly what the app offers when they open it. Trading, he maintained, is now the single priority. How refreshing, to have one’s priorities so neatly aligned!
Pollak added that early testing revealed the limitations of blending social content into a wallet interface. While he had previously championed Farcaster integration, usage patterns suggested the app was never meant to be a full social client. Removing social posts, he explained, allows the team to focus on fewer features with clearer intent. One can almost hear the collective “thank goodness” from the trading faithful.
Farcaster Retreats from Social Ambitions, Neynar Steps In with Open Arms
As part of this glorious update, Base App’s feed now centers on activity users can act on directly:
- Tokens and NFTs available for immediate trading-because who has time for idle chatter when there’s money to be made?
- Onchain transactions linked to supported assets-because transparency is the soul of trading.
- Swap activity across decentralized markets-because why limit oneself to a single exchange?
- Wallet interactions tied to Base-supported applications-because integration is the name of the game.
Base App launched as a rebrand during Base’s broader expansion beyond its Ethereum Layer 2 network. Its positioning shifted toward acting as an entry point for swaps, assets, and decentralized apps tied to onchain markets. A noble endeavor, if ever there was one.
Farcaster, meanwhile, has been undergoing its own existential crisis. The decentralized social protocol announced in December that it would focus more on wallet services than running a standalone social app. This shift was followed by its acquisition by Neynar, a Haun-backed firm providing infrastructure for Farcaster clients. One can only imagine the boardroom discussions: “Social? How passé. Let’s focus on the wallets!”
Around the same period, Farcaster said it planned to return about $180 million to venture backers. At the same time, it stressed that the protocol itself remains active. Co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan have since joined stablecoin startup Tempo, marking another step away from founder-led development. Ah, the circle of life in the tech world-founders come, founders go, but the protocols (and the wallets) remain.
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2026-02-11 09:11