Will Binns I An Overview of Building with AI on Base I Agentic Ethereum 2025

[Music] uh as I said I'm will I'm one of the core team members on Bas um if you haven't heard of bass just quick tldr Bas is an L2 on top of ethereum we roll up our transactions onto ethereum we do that so that taking advantage of ethereum security all the scaling work that's been done in addition to that we can do things really inexpensively and fast and so just for example like if you want to send eth on ethereum uh you know it's it's like been times where it's like okay I'm not going to use this to buy a cup of coffee um on base it's like fractions of a cent that transaction fee using uh things like pay masters which I'll I'll chat a little bit about it's even possible to like sponsor transactions for apps that you're building especially a gentic apps where people using that don't even have to pay any transaction fees so um but yeah that's essentially in a nutshell we're in L2 on top of ethereum making ethereum even faster and inexpensive to use to make it as easy as possible to put the world on chain and so um this is b.org highly recommend just bookmarking this page this is going to be a great go-to it's going to lead to like all these other things that um I'm going to be clicking through um good place just here to spend about uh two three minutes just scrolling around just for a quick TLD drr on what we're doing the next thing I wanted to show uh is it's very very very important that if you haven't already done so and you're participating in this agentic ethereum hackathon that you've joined the eth global Discord we have a base channel here we're answering questions you can see I'm in here earlier today also or we're uh dropping all kinds of e on folk so if you need that come in there hit me up say hey W bins like uh however I can help we're here to help you um also great e Global folks are here a lot of the great other uh networks we're all building uh something really awesome together here like on Bas we're not like looking at one chain being better than the other in the future people aren't even going to realize what network they're on they're just going to realize that they're part of something that is open to everyone so get in here please if you haven't already done so specifically for Bas we also have our own Discord uh it's Bass .org Discord um there's probably I think about 425,000 people have joined this Discord at any given point in time there's usually around 25,000 people online this is one of the best places that you can save to come connect with other people that are doing things on base and as a builder this is one of the most important places that you can be to connect with people that are going to potentially use the app that you've built also to look at hey what are people doing and engaging with these other apps that people are building we have all kinds of great opportunities in here to connect with users and also great opportunities to connect with us on the base team for example you need Technical Support I'm in here other people from the devil team are in here if you need uh ecosystem support you've built something like how do you connect this with trying to get Amplified like from the Bas uh X account so I'm got like a million followers like how can we help support you all potentially with grants other things like that this is the place to be so definitely b.org Discord U the next place I wanted to highlight if you're somebody that has never used forecaster before I highly highly recommend that you create an account you can go to warp cast.com here I'm looking at the base channel foraster is kind kind of like a mashup between X and Reddit you have like the uh short feed where you can send short messages like on X and then you also have channels like you see the equivalent being maybe like subreddits on Reddit and so the reason why it's important that you're on here if you're building on chain is because almost all the users on this platform are purely doing things on chain so if you're wanting to connect with an audience that's going to have like a really high conversion rate we're doing something with your app this is the best place to be talking to people building relationships building Community around what you're doing if you go to x you post something out there you go to another platform Facebook or something like that there's always going to be a proportion of people that haven't done anything on chain yet and just by comparison I was just reading an article maybe over the holidays right around the beginning of the year 90% of the world hasn't even held it any crypto yet even though a lot of us here have been in this space for a super long time that's how much work we still have to do that's how much of the world still hasn't connected to what we're doing so foraster is a really great way to get that really early group of users that's going to create that Network effect of other people around them their peers friends family Etc that are going to come on chain oh yeah my friend told me about this I'm going to check out this app so this is a really great distill of folks that can connect with your app give you feedback that are then going to spread out to other people that are going to maybe be coming on chain for the first time using what you've built uh next super important page that I wanted to highlight here it's docs.

bmc.com in our developer Journey um this is going to be a great place to use as a compass for just general information that you might need from a techacal perspective um if you are completely new to building on chain that's okay all of us in some type of aspect are new we're a beginner at something and so it's all relative but if you're completely new you've never built anything on chain before it's going to be challenging and this is gentic ethereum hackathon but that's okay like part of a hackathon is is getting in there and feeling like hey I I have no idea what the hell I'm doing that's life we all have that like I don't know what the hell I'm doing moment and all kinds of things and so that said come over here to dostat base. org check out underlearn learn to build on chain this is completely free and so it's going to be really hard in the context of this agentic ethereum haathon but bookmark this come back to this and just start you know like doing some of that like slow ramp up work after the fact you can still I'm going to show you some things here that are going to allow you to get started building some things like you there's plenty of things you can like copy pasta to do things that previously like six to 12 months ago would not have been possible because there's no code there's no reference to be able to ship something out that still has a chance of being competitive in different ways or in the future being modified that's something that's going to start getting traction making some Revenue paying you things that people are actually going to start to use so bookmark this page or if you have friends that are like oh I wish that I could have done that hackathon send them to this page and say well there's going to be others because like as Calvin was saying before we started recording like hey nice to see you again we do these hackathons Bas works with e Global we sponsor these prizes and so um it's just a really good opportunity to to also connect like your peers if they want to be part of the future ones um next if you want to if you're like already like hey yeah I just actually forked Unis swap um like I'm super pro this said my first rodeo uh but you haven't built anything on Bas before um docs. b.org dos that I'm looking at right now is going to be your quick tldr on just different things going to be helpful to you specifically like our tools um bass has really really really great uh tooling around it there's just like all kinds of different thirdparty um platforms tools libraries that support base so this is a great place to probably spend about maybe five to 10 minutes today if you haven't already been here you're already starting to um come together with your idea to uh start to connect the dots like hey I don't want to build my own index or like that might take me about a week uh there's a ton of like indexers that already support base so this is going to like um help you really fill out that stack without um having to do a lot of that like from scratch work so uh and then the last thing if you're like kind of uh in between um you know super uh shadowy supercoder and super new uh to this space our Tut tutorials is kind of like a middle area uh that I would also recommend spending some time in uh this is just going to be like a way if you want to spend like maybe if you have an idea right now but you're just like you don't really have the mental M model for like how these pieces um might fit together this tutorials page is just gonna like you could spend maybe an afternoon today it's you're gonna level up a lot um if you're kind of new to building on chain but you've done a lot of stuff in web to you're going to level up a lot just doing like maybe a few of these different ones about like deploying a smart contract or or like starting to see like how some of these different uh third party tools especially work with an onchain app um I'd highly recommend uh getting in here and so that's doc.

b.org now so we've been talking about some different things here uh just in general about base but this is an agentic ethereum hackathon so let's talk about some AI um first off I wanted to take you all over to um the coinbase developer platform and over there you all have a really unfair Advantage uh participating in this agent hackathon because coinbase has a really good toolkit for building with AI on ethereum on base and it's called Agent kit and so uh right here this is docs. cp. coinbase.com Agent kit I would highly recommend bookmarking this page because like I said it's an unfair Advantage everybody has access to this so it's like I'm I'm being somewhat sarcastic because if we've been doing this like trying to figure out how to do this maybe six months ago this stuff just wouldn't exist and it'd be a huge pain in the ass figuring out like I have an idea but I have no idea how I'm going to connect this stack together checkout agent kit and so alongside this just even this past weekend um coinbase had an onchain AI weekend in San Francisco doing a hackathon and so the second unfair Advantage you have here is on this page is a hackathon guide so it says building with agent kit this weekend yes building this week in the agentic ethereum hackathon so 100% please come to this page because it's going to save you like days of work figuring out things so that you can just get to the execution phase of your idea and so um this is like I I get kind of geeky about this page because it just like I love doing these hackathons and and one of the hardest parts like I know like you know being a builder wanted to be part of this is like getting out of that idea phase and there's never any time like at the end like oh I got to do this there's not any time this is going to give you all that extra time um and so it makes me excited because I feel like um as I was saying at the beginning this is like one of the best times to build where I feel like in AIC ethereum hackathon at the end of this we're gonna be like holy look what these people built because um you for youall that have been in hackathons before there's usually like a large uh spectrum of like quality projects I think we're to a point like in onchain app development where it's like some people are going to be like I don't know I see some of the apps coming out of these like how am I going to compete and I think that's great because we really need these super awesome reference apps and that like levels everyone else up it's kind of like that Rising tide lifts all boats effect so uh again here's agent kit check out this hackathon guide and then I I just love this um page because it it just breaks this all out um so if you spent like the rest of today just going through here checking out the API docs for python typescript it's really going to give you everything um you need and then there's also like I showed you the um base Discord coinbase developer platform also has a Discord and they have a channel dedicated to agent kits so if you're like building with this you you have the unfair advantage of having this like as your toolkit to supp the execution of your idea and then you're also going to have a channel dedicated to using this toolkit so um and then I just also would encourage you like as part of this um hackathon like right now you know a lot of y'all are like in hacker mode uh it's also a great opportunity to be thinking about how am I going to take this idea and then go to H go into like founder mode like where like maybe I'm going to win maybe I'm going to get really close uh to getting my idea out but I don't win a prize like in the Bas trck but like I'm going to build a legit project I want to go full-time on my job right now the president's launching tokens his wife's launching tokens like what's happened in the last two months in the United States like it's just to me I I'm almost like this is crazy um since I've been in the space since 2013 I've never seen such a fast change in the space uh where so many people are coming in so it's like also a great opportunity to think about like okay right now I'm in hacker mode but like how do I want to be taking advantage of this and like I want to become a sovereign individual I want to work for myself I want to be able to work from wherever I want I don't want somebody telling me hey you live here this is what your salary is going to be I'm gonna build my own thing it might not be easy but I'm gonna be in complete control over my own life and launch my own project and so like if you can do that I don't think it matters if you win a prize in this hack is F you won the prize like you won the prize of life so I'd be thinking about that um alongside this really quickly like uh we don't have a lot of time we're only doing a half hour uh Workshop here but I wanted to click through uh a couple more things and then save some time uh for questions the next thing I wanted to show you is a good supplement to agent kit is onchain kit and this is onchain kit doxyz essentially like this is going to give you a template for launching like a full stack app that you can then bolt agent kit onto so if you want like a a cool you know web page that people are going to be going and interacting with like onchain kit is going to give you that where literally just you know in minutes all of a sudden you're going to have a fully deployed um app like reference app you can use this template here um that like I just again going back back six to 12 months like this stuff just didn't exist so you see people with like oh I got the GitHub repo together here's what I want to do or here's my figma here's here's like a screencast like how this might work like this is gonna give people um that huge level up to where like you can have something live people can use you use this hackathon to get that idea out there and um you know here middle of February you have an app that like is live on mainnet that's potentially making you money so um here's that onchain app template uh that I clicked on when I went to template uh in the top like you can just clone this and then it's going to give you like an app uh that's you know you can connect your wallet it's going to handle transactions it's going to have a swap component that automatically like people can trade tokens on your app so it's just like again you'd be spending days figuring this out if it didn't already exist um last thing uh really quickly if you go to my X it's x.

com wbin I put a link to this um there's like almost 50 different um AI like agentic apps on bass already like give this a scroll through because this is going to give you a really good frame of reference on what like other people are doing and it's going to give you like that intel if you kind of have an idea right now like check out some of these other categories and see like oh okay like this one app that's simp similar to my idea like here oh I see what wow that looks like that's working really good so it's going to like save you um like people that launch first they have like you know the so-called first mover Advantage but there's also an advantage to moving after the first mover because you can see oh they went that way that worked good I think I can do this better and it might work really well so take that approach um and then just in general uh this last thing here is the uh b.org ecosystem page page so if you check out like that list of like almost 50 different agentic apps you can also go in through our b.org ecosystem page and see how you can combine something agentic with like maybe one of these app ideas where um all of a sudden like there's hundreds of apps here so even if you don't have an idea right now you know you want to be part of this hackathon like go check out um the agentic apps on base and then come here to like b.org ecosystem spend an hour just clicking around and you I guarantee you're going to start to get like that's kind of a cool idea and and stick with that like idea that's interesting to you like I wish I could use something like that like that'd be cool if I could add AI to something like a or there's all kinds of different possibilities there so uh anyways yeah that's uh that's it in that show I feel like we could have done like a like a two or threeh hour um workshop on this and I I really would uh um like that so uh anyways but this isn't the end let's keep the conversation going come over to the the bass Channel and the eth global Discord let's keep talking about it like if you have some ideas you want to talk about anything that I covered just in this really high level Workshop um I'm there for you the rest of the base team's there for you and um yeah thanks for thanks for joining today live and then people that are watching the recording thanks for for giving this a look and uh we'll see you [Music]