Pissed off Time.enjoyable creator calls out Base’s X profile for selling AI-made Grok token whereas ignoring their initiatives.
One other day, one other blockchain drama and this time that includes Time.enjoyable’s creator 0xKawz, calling out layer-2 community Base for selling a memecoin whereas ignoring months of labor on their challenge. The dispute facilities round Base’s X account, which just lately promoted GrokCoin, a memecoin tied to Elon Musk‘s AI chatbot Grok, whereas giving no consideration to Time.enjoyable.
icymi, @grok launched a token on Base
due to @bankrbot and Clanker’s buying and selling mechanisms, Grok’s AI-controlled pockets is already stacking charges ($200K+ and counting)
why does it matter? AI is proudly owning wallets, making markets, and producing income.
welcome to the longer term.
— Base (@base) March 10, 2025
In a March 10 submit on X, Base gave a shoutout to Bankrbot, a Base-based portfolio administration protocol, stating that the Grok chatbot had “launched a token on Base” and that its AI-controlled pockets was “already stacking charges” surpassing $200,000.
“[…] why does it matter? AI is proudly owning wallets, making markets, and producing income. welcome to the longer term.”
Base
0xKawz appeared stunned by Base’s enthusiastic assist for GrokCoin, significantly since, in response to them, Base had ignored Time.enjoyable for months, elevating issues about Base’s choice for shilling “shitposters” who “satisfied Grok to loosely give token particulars and launch a token.”
https://twitter.com/0xKawz/standing/1899205927275835875
“I spent months constructing an app on Base and was by no means in a position to get the @base account to tweet in regards to the product. Some shitposters satisfied Grok to loosely give token particulars and launch a token and it will get frontpage protection ++ farms degens with no utility. ‘welcome to the longer term’ is seemingly a shitposter tricking an AI to offer a ticker + title. wow!”
0xKawz
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Paradoxically sufficient, Coinbase — the corporate behind Base — is definitely conscious of Time.enjoyable. Its enterprise arm, Coinbase Ventures, participated within the challenge’s $3 million seed funding spherical in August 2024, led by Brevan Howard Digital. Different traders included Breed VC, Zee Prime Capital, and angel traders akin to Solana co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, in addition to Helius co-founder Mert Mumtaz.
In an interview with media, 0xKawz hinted that Time.enjoyable would possibly ultimately launch its personal token sooner or later, however there’s no clear timeline because the challenge is targeted on discovering “product-market match” first. It’s additionally unclear if Time.enjoyable now plan to launch a Solana-based token, leaving Base behind.
1/ We’re excited to announce our $3M seed spherical, led by @BHDigitalAssets, with participation from @cbventures, @ZeePrimeCap, @breed_vc, @PalmTreeCrypto, @AdvancitCapital, and @MaelstromFund.
We’re on a mission to tokenize time and unlock new economies ⌛️ pic.twitter.com/jNrlFMF7Vb
— time.enjoyable (@timedotfun) August 29, 2024
Whereas it stays unclear why Base has utterly ignored Time.enjoyable, it’s value noting that the challenge additionally distanced itself from the Coinbase’s layer-2 community. In October 2024, Time.enjoyable introduced — with out elaborating on the matter — that it could migrate to Solana, saying solely that the challenge’s likelihood for product-market-fit and mainstream adoption “is best served on Solana.”
“Merely put, we align nearer with Solana’s roadmap, values, and tradition. We stay bullish on Base as a L2, nonetheless we consider our possibilities for product-market-fit and mainstream adoption is best served on Solana.”
Time.enjoyable
Launched on Base in June 2024, Time.enjoyable is a social finance platform that allows anybody to create a buying and selling and redemption marketplace for their time inside minutes, permitting followers to realize particular entry. It presents customers the chance to revenue by buying a creator’s minutes early and benefiting as they acquire affect. A creator’s time tokens could be redeemed for entry to varied merchandise or experiences.
Backed by crypto accelerator AllianceDAO, Time.enjoyable permits customers to tokenize and paywall their time, with every token representing one minute of a person’s availability. Since its launch, the challenge has generated over $1 million in buying and selling quantity. And but, regardless of this traction, Base’s X account hasn’t talked about the challenge a single time, in response to knowledge from X. As of press time, Base has made no public statements on the matter.
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