Challenged the characterization
“Anyone can deploy a token on Base without Coinbase approving it.”
Fish rejected suggestions that $LAPTOP’s deployment on Base meant Coinbase or Base had approved or partnered with the project.
- Speaker
- Jordan Fish
- Capacity
- Cryptocurrency commentator and Base product leader known as Cobie
- Observed
- September 9, 2026
- Published here
- September 10, 2026
- Targets
- Hunter Biden
- Classification rationale
- The statement specifically challenges an implied institutional association rather than endorsing or condemning the token itself.
Surrounding material
Full context
Before the quotation
Some traders blamed Base for the planned token launch.
After the quotation
Fish said there was no partnership between $LAPTOP and Coinbase or Base.
Evidence
Complete source record
Hunter Biden wants to launch a LAPTOP memecoin. Crypto traders hate it already (opens in a new tab)
Corroborates direct X reactions by scupytrooples, DonAlt, Byzantine General, and Jesse Pollak and reports platform distancing.