Market Perception - The market increasingly recognizes protocols as fundamental infrastructure [1] - Aave is evolving beyond lending to become a foundational layer for complex product development, exemplified by Pendle [1] - The base layer thesis is gaining traction [1]

BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners is setting up a team to finance infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia that usually struggle to secure investment https://t.co/EFivtsg5Bm ...

Build on infra that won’t bottleneck youBuild on Solana: https://t.co/sIRt06RXWz ...

Brookfield is launching a dedicated strategy focused on developing infrastructure for AI as it looks to capitalize on a boom in data centers https://t.co/DjUIcB7PxK ...

everyone: "base needs perfect infrastructure before real adoption"meanwhile base:• $4.1b tvl• $2.75b weekly dex vol• stripe + jp morgan building• 700k+ waitlistmarket keeps thinking infrastructure comes before adoption. reality shows otherwise ...

chase customers can now swap reward points for usdc while pendle silently powers $4.6b of ethena yield. the plumbing doesn't care about your narratives• pure infrastructure• zero promises• just numbers ...

chase connecting 91m users direct to base while everyone else launches tokens. infrastructure > narrativesbase is actually building ...

Johannesburg is a mess. Power and water supplies are sporadic; potholes can be the size of craters. Helen Zille, who was born in the city, says that fixing it is “the hardest job in South Africa” https://t.co/LLh3rkvOYy ...

Analysts reckon $2.9trn will be spent on data centres and related infrastructure by the end of 2028. But like a bad party at a good restaurant, nobody is quite sure who will pick up the tab https://t.co/mS8tcKDv63Illustration: @brett.ryder.illustration https://t.co/Hef6fI86Qq ...

This year companies will spend $400bn on the infrastructure needed to run artificial-intelligence models. Predictions of the final bill are uniformly enormous https://t.co/iIZT6SDp74 ...