Magicmehdi

Why is fantasy moving to base? With the Base migration complete, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on why we made this move. A year and a half ago, we made a bet: launch Fantasy on a brand-new, hyped L2 called Blast. At the time, it made sense. Pacman had a killer track record. Blur had successfully overtaken OpenSea, and the token was performing well. Blast didn’t invent anything on the infra side, but they made two genius moves: 🔹Native yield on ETH and stablecoins (3% on ETH, 8% on USDB). That alone returned millions to dApps and users. 🔹The best incentive program crypto had seen: transparent and efficient, with distribution power delegated to dApp builders. They also saw early that crypto was going mobile, and began working on a crypto App Store concept, the Blast mobile app. At launch, it worked. Blast gave Fantasy a real boost. We might have grown without them, but there’s no denying that launching there supercharged our momentum. I’ll be forever grateful to Pacman and the Blast team for that. But good ideas aren’t enough. Execution is everything. And that’s where Blast fell short. The first six months of the live network went pretty well. But then, things got weird. Communication broke down, slow shipping, and core issues raised by the community were ignored. Some call it a slow rug. I don’t know. But the energy that drove early Blast in 2024 is gone. At first, it didn’t bother us much. At Fantasy, we stay focused on our own goals and take full responsibility for our growth. Blaming the chain was never part of the plan. We've always worked to abstract the chain layer as much as possible so as long as things were stable, there was no urgency to migrate. So we stayed and focused our energy on things that had higher impact for the game, and for Fantasy as a company. (Monad launch, Clout, our B2B offering, etc.) But now, staying on Blast is a liability. Users are increasingly worried about keeping funds there. Growth has stalled. And it’s become clear Blast can’t support us in the next phase. It was time to move on, but where? We didn’t seriously consider newly launched L1/L2s. There are strong options out there there, but it was too risky to bet on another new chain. Blast is dead now, but anyone around in 2024 knows they had a legit shot at building something great. (They even had Pump fun deployed there. Imagine how different history could’ve been…) As a builder, the only thing that really matters in a chain partner is distribution. Incentive is a good reason too but without real user reach, they don’t mean much. Even if Berachain offered us $5M today to bridge, we wouldn’t take it. The only real option for us was solana or base. Both are mature ecosystem, with a lot of users and a great BD team. Three things weighed into our decision: 🔹Distribution We’re perfectly in sync with the upcoming Coinbase Wallet rollout. It’s the same vision Blast had, but this time, it’s actually shipping. Millions of users have this wallet, and they’ll be able to play Fantasy natively. 🔹Community While @0xMikado , @travisbickle0x and I love the Solana trenches, most Fantardios are EVM-native. Overall, Fantasy just fits better culturally with the Base community than with the Solana trenchers. 🔹Tech Migrating to Base took a week. Solana would’ve meant rewriting everything, 2-3 months of work. @fantasy_top_ is here to play the long game. And @base is where that game continues.