Scaling Community: Lessons from Building Base by wbnns | Devcon SEA

[Music] [Music] hey everybody can everybody hear me okay pretty good all right thank you so much for coming here and being here today so um Hello friends my name is Will bins I also go by W bins just smashing my name together I Le communities at base I'm also a full stack developer at Bas we're one and a half year old Layer Two on top of ethereum our objective is to build a global open economy that spreads equality opportunity and freedom around the world we just processed our 1 billionth transaction this past week it's still is still day one across Discord farcaster GitHub and X there's millions of people that are part of our communities I said Hello friends but we don't know each other there we're different genders different skin colors we come from different countries there's all kinds of things that make us different here that fracture us that drive us apart that lead to a lot of the conflict that we see in this world right now but we're here we're here together all of us here left something behind that really wasn't working so well in some way to look towards something better for us for our friends for our families for our loved ones and that I think is something that all of us can build a friendship on on and I think that's in the context of this lightning talk high level our future is the most important part focusing on that in building a scalable Community an open economy that anybody can be part of being able to work from wherever you want being able to live where you want equality all those things I talked about all those things that make us different all those things that don't matter transparency verifiability on chain not having to take each other's word for things freedom and hopefully in what we see these days in the future more peace in the world but how do we do that we have to make space for everyone Builders creators lurkers people that are just curious speculators gamers even scammers and spammers there should be direct paths for all of these people and in order to do that we have to create opportunities for everyone I just said scammers and spammers and I think one of the most important parts of creating opportunity for scammers and spammers is being empathetic there's people that are born just by the lottery of life in some part of the world where they can't even leave their town they wish that they could get on a plane to come somewhere like this to sit next to us today but they can't do that the opportunities in front of them LED them to that path it's up to us as Community Builders to build something better to help people discover new apps new opportunities new jobs learn educate them for some people it's just to make friends new friends in a real world where they don't have any and in all that all of us a better life in order to do that we have to focus on the fact that these problems in the world these problems that we have with each other across this evm even these things that make us different these subcommunities that split us apart that we see dis agreements in those problems are what unite us they're not what should drive us apart this evm ethereum is what connects us together and so you as Builders building Community people building apps across the evm across onchain an app is just something people download but a community is something that you come back for so what do we do we have to realize and admit our mistakes when we have them we have to realize we're not kings and queens we're not royalty being in this space is a gift from the universe but it's also a challenge what am I what are we what are you going to do with this gift to be here today to be able to fly here to Thailand to be part of this community Community when others can't leave their own to build something better and there's a quote that's often cliche but it's so true alone we go fast but together we can go far and so in that vein um I set up just a telegram group so anybody here there's no difference in networks we're all part of this ethereum community if you'd like to be part of this telegram I'm an open book people in our B Community are open books we're trying to build a better world together let's share our knowledge let's build a brain tust people watching this recording later come to this group let's work together let's go through the things that we can't talk about in a lightning talk how do we build safe secure communities how do we scale communities how do we make sure that everybody has their space so thank you all for sharing in your time to be here today thank you so much well any questions please raise your hand I will throw this Cube to you oh there's one there um please help me uh it's not a question but a word of of gratitude thank you for your talk we highly need this kind of speech in the in the space like I just went out from a very different conversation thank you yeah thank you uh I see another question over there hi Will I subit you in person how do you see communities like Bas latan base India Bas Africa impact those communities I think that um thinking about like how all communities start they start small and in time they grow some succeed some fail but if we think of things like on a cellular level how human life imitates itself in the form of how we build communities the ones that continue to get bigger and bigger and bigger they divide and become their own communities taking Costa Rica as an example here there's many builders in Costa Rica but in that there's also many people with differences there's people that want to build on chain they just want to play games they just want to trade they just want to work on infra and a lot of those people they don't want to have anything to do with each other that doesn't mean they don't like each other they're just not interested so for us as Community Builders it's important that within the first 10 15 seconds when they come into our community we're helping them get to the right place and so in the context of this question for based latam which we're referring to here which is based communities in Latin America it's continuing to build more and more smaller and smaller and smaller communities till eventually we reach the grass Roots so that's my answer to the question thank