<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Base blockchain creator Jesse Pollak will no longer be leading the Base app team, according to a confessional post on X where the Coinbase executive admitted that some of Base’s earlier bets on social and creator features largely missed the mark.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to Pollak’s X post, Jordan Fish, better known by his handle and online moniker 'Cobie,' will now lead the Base app team.
Fish joined Coinbase last year after the exchange acquired his ICO launchpad Echo for approximately </span><a href="https://www.theblock.co/post/375486/coinbase-buying-echo"><span style="font-weight: 400;">$375 million</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in a cash-and-stock deal.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"First off — in case it’s not obvious, the first quarter of 2026 was a punch in the face," Pollak said in a message Wednesday, pointing to some of Base’s experiments with Farcaster, Zora, miniapps and creator coins had "disintegrated completely."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Base launched in 2024 and has grown to become one of the most active Ethereum Layer 2s, though many of the features and apps Pollak and Coinbase promoted have not taken off. </span></p>
