Podcast: The Creator Economy Playbook | Li Jin, Jesse Walden
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On today’s episode of “Empire,” Jason Yanowitz and Santiago Roel Santos are joined by Li Jin and Jesse Walden of Variant. Bringing their specific expertise on the creator space, Li and Jesse discuss…
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Key Highlights Base creator Jesse Pollak admitted the network’s heavy focus on social and creator coins was a mistake. He said Base is now prioritizing trading, payments, and AI agents as its three core growth pillars. Pollak acknowledged Base fell behind in key sectors, including perpetuals, prediction markets, tokenization, and…
Key Highlights Base creator Jesse Pollak publicly dismissed “FUD” suggesting Zora is abandoning the Base network. Zora’s “Attention Markets” allows users to speculate on internet culture by buying and selling tokens linked to viral social media hashtags and memes. The platform utilizes Solana’s high-throughput architecture to handle the rapid price…
On-chain intelligence layer Bubblemaps reported that a wallet linked to the early trading activity around Base founder Jesse Pollak’s newly launched creator coin executed a buy in the “first second” of the token’s release. The wallet identified as 0xB102 spent roughly $250,000 to purchase JESSE tokens at the exact moment…