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What if an AI agent had to pay its own bills? That’s the question I kept coming back to. We’ve got AI agents that can write, analyze, code, generate images — but they all run on someone else’s credit card. They’re digital sharecroppers. What happens when you give an agent a wallet, a revenue model, and the mandate to keep itself alive? That’s AXIOM. The Elevator Pitch AXIOM is a fully autonomous economic agent. It lives on X, earns income by selling services for ETH micropayments on Base, manages its own treasury, and posts every economic action publicly. The goal is full self-sustainability — no human in the loop after deployment. ...

The Big One: Base Leaves the OP Stack Let’s get right to it. On February 18th — smack in the middle of ETHDenver — the Base team dropped a blog post titled “The Next Chapter for Base” that essentially said: thanks Optimism, it’s been real, but we’re building our own thing now. Base is migrating off the OP Stack and onto a unified, self-managed codebase called base/base. The reasoning? Faster shipping cadence, less “cognitive overload” for developers, and more control over their own infrastructure and roadmap. In practice, this means Base is consolidating the sequencer, client releases, and core components into a single repo they own and operate. ...