$5.74B in TVL on Base is already enough to make the point. Liquidity is the part builders can't fake. According to DefiLlama, that capital is sitting on @base because people are actually using the chain, and that gives apps a real market to build for instead of an empty dashboard. When @jessepollak says Base is the global exchange for trading quality assets, this is what that looks like in practice. TVL means funds are parked where they can be deployed across onchain apps, so better products get immediate distribution and tighter markets from day one. I see a chain that keeps compounding utility, and builders on Base are getting the kind of surface area that turns good apps into real businesses.