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Every mother has a favourite. But at Mama Shelter, it's every ARC member.
We're excited to announce our partnership with Mama Shelter Singapore, a playful, design-led urban hotel made to feel like a home away from home.
What's interesting are their core concepts and values: dynamic spaces for you to relax, work, eat, meet and greet. 5* luxury bedding, organic solid amenities, thoughtfully prepared homemade food and free movies.
With this partnership, ARC members will enjoy preferential rates for both the hotel and the F&B.
Malaysian Stellars, this one's for you.
@Nibel_eth says he has "worked very hard to push Malaysia as like the center of builders in Asia", and Base runs a founder residency of about five teams a month with pre-funded Network School slots.
He gets into it with @seeksahib at 10:36 and 18:08.
Tag a fellow Malaysian builder who should hear this.
Sat down with @Nibel_eth, APAC lead at Base.
Had him on The Based Show to speak about his journey from Wall Street to the trenches, and where Base is heading next.
8 years in banking at JPMorgan and Citi. A founder in Web3, and one of the first Singaporean builders on Base.
Around 85% of all x402 transactions now run on Base.
Now he's leading the push to make Base the home of the agentic economy, where the next billion economic actors are agents.
Nick is one of the sharpest operators I've sat with on where AI and onchain finance are heading.
Full conversation below.
Timestamps:
1:10 Who Nick is: SMU, Citi, JPMorgan, now APAC lead at Base
1:56 Doubling his salary in two months and leaving banking for crypto
2:51 The Uniswap V2 white paper that pulled him in
4:54 From founder to leading Base in APAC
5:47 Why he bet on Base as one of its first Singaporean builders
7:40 Proving your value before anyone hires you
8:27 How Base's thesis evolved: memecoin season to AI agents
10:36 Why Malaysia is becoming Asia's builder hub
11:24 Base's north star: payments, stablecoins and bringing all assets onchain
13:02 x402 and agentic commerce: "the next billion economic actors will be agents"
14:02 Beyond agents: why robotics data is the next frontier
15:58 Base's robotics demo day at Network School
17:00 The Base x Network School founders residency
19:22 Building inside Coinbase: operating on the edge of what's possible
20:50 Coinbase's AI layoffs and the biggest displacement since the Industrial Revolution
22:47 How founders should play the next two years
24:20 What Base wants to be remembered for: 85% of x402 transactions
25:10 Tokenization and opening finance to emerging markets
25:49 The Base token question
27:09 One line to remember Base by
To kick off our partnership with Royale Pilates, we brought members together for a Reformer Pilates class at their TRX studio in Kuala Lumpur.
Part of building ARC is creating more opportunities for our members to spend time together. You might first meet someone through their business, then get to know them properly over an afternoon like this, between groans and the shared realisation that everyone might struggle with the stairs tomorrow. 😎
Shoutout to the Royale Pilates team for hosting us and giving our Malaysian members a new way to spend time together!
If you enjoyed the session and are already thinking about round two, here's a reminder that your ARC member discount applies to eligible classes and packages at all three Royale Pilates studios. Maybe bring a fellow Stellar along?
No rest for the builders 🔥
Shoutout to @hypetris_ and the @elfa_ai team on the launch of Elfa v3, bringing richer, real-time social data to AI agents.
Check it out 👇
Our Stellar @peter_xfg has something for you.
ARC fam heading to Korea Blockchain Week or TOKEN2049 in Singapore can claim 1GB of free travel data through @atliesim, the AI-powered travel eSIM platform from XForge Mobile.
Peter is XForge Mobile's Co-founder and CEO. Give @atliesim a follow to show some love for the perk!
Claim details are in our Telegram channel.
ARC is excited to partner with Royale Pilates (royale-pilates.rezerv.co/), a premium Pilates studio in Malaysia with locations at TRX, Kota Damansara and Cheras.
They offer private, duet and group sessions tailored to different fitness levels, needs and life stages. Its thoughtfully designed programmes focus on building strength, improving mobility, enhancing posture and supporting overall well-being.
Royale Pilates also offers specialised programmes for pre- and postnatal clients, kids and teens, seniors, and individuals managing scoliosis, injuries or posture concerns.
With this partnership, ARC members get preferential rates on eligible classes and packages at Royale Pilates across all their three studio locations in Malaysia.
To celebrate, we’re kicking it off with a launch event at their TRX Branch studio. Details in our Telegram channel.
One of the best parts of building an ecosystem?
Watching different parts of it build on each other.
This time, it was the 3Ps: People, Probiotics, Pilates.
We recently welcomed VAURA Pilates as an ARC partner, giving members preferential rates on class packs and memberships across all their studios in Singapore.
To kick things off, members came together to sweat it out at VAURA Cross Street. Big shoutout to Steph and the team for hosting us!
And because apparently Pilates wasn’t enough wellness for one day, Archemi Labs (archemilabs.com/) joined the party too.
As one of the companies in the ARC ecosystem, Archemi kept everyone refreshed and sent each participant home either GLP1biotics: GLP-1 Signaling Probiotics+ or Neurobiome: Gut-Brain-Cellular Probiotics+.
VAURA brought the burn. Archemi took care of the gut. We'd say it was a pretty solid wellness stack.
That’s what we like about a great ecosystem. Bring great people and companies into it, and they start finding ways to make the whole thing better for each other.
ARC
Take a pause from perpetual futures. Do something about that perpetual back pain. Let Hideaway get your back.
We’re excited to announce our official partnership with Hideaway!
Located at New Bahru, Hideaway (hideaway.sg/) is a massage and bathhouse concept focused on healing and recovery. Their treatments blend timeless and modern rituals, with therapeutic massages and semi-private and private bathhouse with infrared saunas and cold plunges.
With this partnership, ARC members get:
◆ The ARC Retreat, which is a custom 120-minute treatment built for members. Warm oil massage, hot herbal compress, guasha head and scalp
◆ Unlimited bathhouse trial pass
◆ Member rates on treatments and memberships
More details in our Telegram channel.
On the invitation we said the best conversations don't happen in conference rooms.
More than 50 founders, builders and community members turned up one evening to test that, on a padel and pickleball court.
Most of them had played only a handful of times, which meant they spent the evening being visibly bad at something in front of people they had only just met. It is much easier to like someone who has just missed the same shot you did.
People walked out sweaty and were already arranging the next game between themselves.
The evening worked because four companies each brought the thing they build.
Love All (loveall.club/) gave us the courts, inside Grace Orchard School, where the club runs employment pathways for graduates with special needs.
Grain (grain.com.sg/) fed the room before we started.
We The Makers (wethemakers.xyz/), founded by our Stellar @KingOfMerch_, sponsored the welcome gifts.
LOOM (instagram.com/loomworks.stud…) co-hosted, where our Stellar @_andrewxchan is its Founder and CEO.
Thank you to everyone who played, and to our Stellar, Boba, for stepping in to coach pickleball.
If you are building something and want to be in rooms like this one, come talk to us.
Yet another benefit for ARC members!
Say hi to Milli (millisingapore.com/ sister concept to the beloved Bae’s Cocktail Club). Perched atop the National Gallery, the Sky Dining & Bar serves refined plates, elegant cocktails and Singaporean cuisine from a Michelin-starred chef (LG Han) and an award-winning bartender (Vijay Mudaliar), all with an unobstructed view of Singapore's skyline.
One floor down is Milli Lounge, where you can groove to pop, disco, funk and house, plus a playlist of throwback anthems Singaporeans have loved through the decades.
TL;DR: dinner, drinks, and a dance floor, all without leaving the building.
With this partnership, ARC members will unlock priority booking, guestlist access and preferential rates for private events & corporate bookings.
Big shoutout to our Stellar @AryyyGold and Milli's co-founder Dharma, for bringing this to the ARC fam! 💜
Not a hotpot in sight, and the fam still pulled up for dinner during Malaysia Blockchain Week.
Huge thanks to @maxlsy94, Founder & CEO of GIL System, for sponsoring the ARC @ KL dinner! 💜
What Max actually does when he's not feeding us: GIL System builds serious software for businesses that can't afford for it to break. Company websites and internal dashboards, crypto infrastructure, locked-down secure systems, and AI tools that run on their own.
And thank you to the Stellars who showed up and spent the evening connecting over good food:
@akkoh1 @bobbyfir3 @Ginsaku @guanyguan @ibryanryan @imthejoan @lockedupfr @lucasonchain @marcsio @minhdo @NewarBrian @Roy0x1 @seeksahib @sushikev @tylerdurden88 @Vigil_eth @zunahn
Another wellness benefit for ARC members!
We're happy to announce our latest partnership with VAURA Pilates (vaurapilates.com/). They combine reformer Pilates with athletic training intensity, delivering the control of classical technique and the challenge of a real strength session.
Members get preferential rates on class packs and memberships across all their Singapore studios.
To celebrate, we're kicking it off with a launch event at their Cross Street studio. Details in our Telegram channel.
Most of you will be hosting plenty of dinners and events during this year's TOKEN2049 Singapore, and we know finding the right venue can be harder than catching the BTC bottom.
Thankfully, this latest partnership gives ARC members another option in their arsenal.
Meet Foura (foura.sg/). It brings together delicious contemporary Asian and European cuisine, crafted with premium, well-sourced ingredients chosen for both exceptional flavour and natural nutritional value, alongside wellness experiences like yoga, pilates, sound baths and community events, making it an ideal venue for meaningful gatherings and connection.
Another concept from our Stellar @AryyyGold, and we've partnered up to bring ARC members an exclusive dining discount and preferential event rates.
Details are in the ARC app and our private TG channel.
Another Stellar shipping something genuinely useful. 🔥
@peter_xfg and the @XForgeOfficial team just launched NOMAD, a sick-looking travel adapter that works across 190+ countries and looks exactly like Bumblebee from Transformers.
$59.99 for the first 300 units, instead of $129.99.
If you're always travelling, you'll probably want one for yourself and a few for whoever you travel with. 👇
Congrats to our Stellar @Roy0x1 and the @naise_ai team on the launch! 🔥
Drop in your website and Naise audits your brand, finds the gaps, then runs social, influencer and PR like an actual team.
Our marketers at ARC are already nerding out over how it pulls the top posts under any category hashtag, so you can see which hooks, formats and lengths actually performs well in that niche.
The influencer discovery is handy too, you can filter by follower count and audience, which saves a lot of manual digging if you're building KOL campaigns.
Nice.
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Some communities give you a Discord. ARC gives you and your family healthcare across three countries.
Our partnership with Thomson Medical is renewed and expanded, now covering Stellars in Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam. Screenings, specialist care, maternity and more, at preferential member rates.
Curated global benefits for a curated global collective.
Huge shoutout to our Stellar @maxlsy94 and GIL System (gilsystem.com/) for sponsoring ARC @ KL Dinner. 💜
And no, it wasn't hotpot. A few of the Stellars looked genuinely relieved.
Full photos and shoutouts to the Stellars who pulled up coming soon. 👀
For everyone still in KL, go enjoy Day 2 of @MalaysiaBCW!
Just wrapped up the ARC @ KL dinner yesterday.
Had the pleasure of sponsoring the dinner at If Only through GIL System. Spent the whole evening catching up with the community and connecting over some good food.
Thanks @arcthecommunity and @imthejoan for putting it together and to everyone who came through 💜🔥
New meta unlocked: AI agents that actually know what's going on.
Our Stellar @hypetris_ and the @elfa_ai team just shipped Iris: a real-time intelligence stack that gives agents live market context, so they finally see what's happening as it happens.
Fitting name. 👀
Stellars, ping Tristan in the ARC Fam chat if you want to give Iris a try.