Jordan Fish denies Base endorsed Hunter Biden's LAPTOP memecoin
Jordan FishCryptocurrency commentator and Base product leader known as Cobie
Fish rejected suggestions that $LAPTOP’s deployment on Base meant Coinbase or Base had approved or partnered with the project.
“Base isn’t “launching the memecoin” / you don’t need CB permission or endorsement to launch a coin, there is no partnership or whatever ppl are implying AFAIK.”
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Where this statement fits
Hunter Biden’s laptop memecoin ($LAPTOP): launch and criticism
Hunter Biden launched the $LAPTOP memecoin, using the name of the laptop controversy that has defined his public profile. Critics including Coffeezilla and cryptocurrency commentators called the project a “shitcoin” or scam and warned against buying it; Channel 5 disavowed promoting crypto after controversy over an audience-list file. Biden framed the token as an act of resilience, redemption, and recovery and contrasted it with Donald Trump’s token.
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Direct X post, published at 7:11 p.m. EDT on September 7, 2026. Fish writes that Base is not launching the memecoin, that launching a coin needs no Coinbase permission or endorsement, and that there is no partnership as far as he knows. CoinDesk reports the post.
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Corroborates direct X reactions by scupytrooples, DonAlt, Byzantine General, and Jesse Pollak and reports platform distancing.
Before the quotation
Some traders blamed Base for the planned token launch.
After the quotation
Fish added that, as far as he knew, there was no partnership between $LAPTOP and Coinbase or Base.
How this statement is classified
The label describes this statement's response within the context above.
Why this label?
The statement specifically challenges an implied institutional association rather than endorsing or condemning the token itself.
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- Hunter Biden
Corrections to this statement
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Correction to: Statement by Jordan Fish
- Previous language
- "Anyone can deploy a token on Base without Coinbase approving it." Statement date: September 8, 2026.
- Corrected language
- "Base isn’t “launching the memecoin” / you don’t need CB permission or endorsement to launch a coin, there is no partnership or whatever ppl are implying AFAIK." Statement date: September 7, 2026.
We presented CoinDesk's paraphrase of Jordan Fish's post as his own words, and we dated the statement September 8, the date of CoinDesk's report, instead of the day of the post. Fish posted on X on September 7, 2026. We replaced the quotation with the wording of the post and corrected the statement date.
This corrects our account of what happened.
Direct X post, published at 7:11 p.m. EDT on September 7, 2026. Fish writes that Base is not launching the memecoin, that launching a coin needs no Coinbase permission or endorsement, and that there is no partnership as far as he knows. CoinDesk reports the post.
Corroborates direct X reactions by scupytrooples, DonAlt, Byzantine General, and Jesse Pollak and reports platform distancing.
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The Dispute Index. "Jordan Fish denies Base endorsed Hunter Biden's LAPTOP memecoin". First published: 2026-09-10. Last updated: 2026-09-30. https://disputeindex.com/events/265-fish-rejected-suggestions-that-laptop-s-deployment-on