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Odaily reports: OpenSea has announced that its mobile app is now open to all users, supporting trading of meme coins, artwork, trading cards, and perpetual contracts across more than 25 chains. OpenSea co-founder and CEO Devin Finzer stated that the app simultaneously launches social trading features, aggregating profiles and trading records of traders on fomo, pump, and Farcaster. Users can follow traders, view their wallet activity, import wallets to claim profiles, and filter by trading platform. Additionally, users can top up via Apple Pay, link or import existing wallets, view and trade all assets in one place, and set NFTs as onchain avatars.
OpenSea Co-Founder and CEO Devin Finzer posted that the OpenSea mobile app is now open to all users, supporting over 25 blockchains and covering asset trading for meme coins, art, trading cards, and perpetual contracts. The core features of this release include: • Social Trading Aggregation: Trader profiles and transaction histories from FOMO, Pump, and Farcaster will sync directly to the OpenSea feed, enabling users to follow and monitor their wallet activity. Users can claim their profiles after importing the associated wallets. • Wallet Management: Users can quickly create and fund new wallets using Apple Pay, or import and link existing wallets to track all assets in a single view. • Profile Customization: Users can select which wallets to showcase on their profile, set an NFT as their on-chain avatar, and generate native trading signals. Finzer noted that the app is built on cross-chain liquidity, real-time pricing, and reliable order execution. Future updates will focus on optimizing content recommendations within the feed, offering more customization options, and making collaborative trading easier for users. In response to user requests to block traders from specific platforms, Finzer confirmed that filtering by trading platform is currently available, with additional filtering capabilities rolling out soon.
Base founder Jesse Pollak published a review of the past two years of development, acknowledging that his previous bet on on-chain native social was a mistake. He stated that social directions like Farcaster, Zora, Miniapps, and creator coins have failed to become the core drivers of crypto adoption, and as a result, Base has fallen behind some competitors in areas such as perpetual contracts, prediction markets, tokenization, and payments.Pollak stated that going forward, Base will position itself as the "blockchain for global finance," focusing on three key directions in 2026: trading, payments, and AI agents. Specifically, trading will cover tokenized stocks, Meme coins, and application tokens; payments will revolve around global stablecoins for individuals and businesses; and AI agents will leverage cryptocurrency as the native money for computers, serving participants in the future large-scale machine economy.Furthermore, the Base application will be handed back to the Coinbase team, with Cobie taking over to drive it forward, and it may expand beyond the Base ecosystem. Pollak also stated that Base will continue to support developers through Base Layer, Base Batches, the ecosystem fund, and Coinbase distribution resources.