Celebrating 2 Years of Onchain Media 🎊

Host: Rachel (@RachelOnchain) · Wed, 19 Aug 2026 · 3:01:48 · ~15 active speakers

TL;DR

• Rachel marked two years of Onchain Media with an open-mic gratitude space, walking through an anniversary thread that chronicles the company's origins, team, and clients (Base, Coinbase, Driven Labo, Azos, Stand with Crypto, Pizza DAO, and many more).
• The theme all night: showing up, giving more than you take, and the compounding value of IRL events and collaboration.
• Rachel announced two things live for the first time — she's relocating from California to Florida (north of Miami) at the end of September, and she's driving cross-country (with a confirmed Austin barbecue-and-coffee stop courtesy of Nicholas).
• A Cars, Crypto & Coffee event with Driven Labo is set for Saturday in LA at Motoring Coffee — capped at 15 people, with Paul Walker's R34 and Han's S15 from Tokyo Drift on display.
• Emotional tributes from the team (Chris, Peanut, Valerie, Adrian, Based, Nicholas, Keegan) anchored the room; the running gag was Chris cooking dinner and Based inhaling Krispy Kreme donuts and cookie dough between CrossFit sets.

Highlights

[10:56] The origin story and Base roots. Rachel ran through her pinned anniversary thread: the words "we are starting on-chain media" said on camera at On-Chain Summit on Aug 17, 2024, early DMs and grant support from Jesse Pollock and the Base team, and the "Eureka moment" when videographer Adrian first heard the name and said it clicked.

[27:53] The founder's biggest challenge. Prompted by Waldo, Rachel named her early hurdle as turning a Twitter show into a sustainable, revenue-generating business — merging her BD/sales background with creative work. Her blunt takeaway: "if sustainable revenue is not a part of the roadmap, you're gonna be extremely limited."

[32:15] The camera fear nobody expected. Rachel admitted that despite speaking on global stages, getting on camera terrified her — filler words and all — and credited Humpty for bringing her in to host Crypto Sapiens with Bankless DAO in 2022, her true starting point.

[1:01:06] Adrian's cycle thesis. Adrian reflected on the Harmony bull-market days (before, as he put it, "Harmony got hacked by North Korea") and argued that when the next "ecosystem fund frenzy" hits, protocols flush with grants will desperately need media voices and translators — so now is the time for creators to build.

[1:23:00] The Florida reveal. Rachel shared publicly for the first time that she's moving to Florida at the end of September. This kicked off an affectionate scramble about geography — she'd be a five-hour drive from Miami, which Humpty insisted [1:24:25] "will not keep her from attending," while Profits pitched the Orlando-to-Miami luxury train.

[1:26:42] Chris's origin story. Chris recounted first meeting Rachel at the Decent DAO booth at ETH Denver 2024, then welled up on his own livestream: "Rachel practically saved my life… she gave me a shot when not a lot of people would." Rachel returned the gratitude, tracing how his creator-program contest wins led to him leading strategy.

[1:58:34] Based's door-opener. Chief poster Based explained how he landed at On-Chain Summit — by posting something to make Rachel laugh — and made the case that humor plus genuine understanding "can open so many doors in this space with very little effort."

[2:01:00] The flowers-and-donuts bit. After a long stretch of compliments, Based cracked, "I'm not used to having so many flowers thrown," and the room pivoted to threatening him with donuts and cookie dough instead — seeding a future "roast of Based All Might" and reviving the never-happened "roast of Jesse Pollock."

[2:07:53] Valerie on the hard weeks. Creator #1 Valerie praised Rachel's soft skills and mental-health advocacy, noting Rachel kept showing up through recent family hospitalizations while still making the free video 101 session with Adrian available to creators.

[2:30:00] The Waka Flocka concert. Rachel's favorite-memory tangent: organizing a Base-sponsored Waka Flocka Flame concert at Temple Nightclub, walking him into the meetup to "Hard in the Paint," and watching him shake every hand in the room before jumping off stage into her group.

Notable quotes

"You basically built a company around being yourself." — the Opolis CEO to Rachel, recounted by Rachel [1:07:01]

"I'm gonna just say that Rachel practically saved my life. So I have so much to be thankful for." — Chris [1:28:08]

"There is a greater risk to not collaborating with others… If you're in a silo, in a little bubble with your project, you're only gonna go so far." — Rachel [1:38:20]

"If you understand people, their humor, and you just come from a point of understanding, you can make them laugh… you can open so many doors in this space with very little effort." — Based [1:58:34]

"When you're excited about what you do, when you love what you do, it will just show." — Rachel [2:12:54]

"Really sit with yourself and think, what's my level of conviction?… Before discipline and consistency, if there isn't a deep-rooted conviction, it can be rather easy for things to take you off course." — Peanut [2:54:28]

Topic timeline

Who said what

• Rachel (@RachelOnchain) — host; narrated the two-year journey, fielded reflections, and announced the Florida move and cross-country drive.
• Chris (@csoriano) — "DeFi professor," head of strategy/ops; moderated, shared his ETH Denver origin with Rachel, and cooked chicken wings live throughout.
• Waldo (@waldoforrealz) — Rachel's longest friend in the space (10 years); asked the founder-challenge questions and closed the room.
• Peanut (@peanutt) — Rachel's Tuesday co-host on Gallery Meets Media; delivered extended riffs on retention, long-haul commitment, and conviction.
• Adrian Robison (@adrianrobison) — videographer since 2022; shared the Harmony-era grant/media thesis and marveled at Rachel's on-camera energy.
• Humpty (@humpty0x) — brought Rachel into Crypto Sapiens; framed decentralized media as his original mission; car enthusiast coming to Saturday's event.
• RΞX (@reXt_racer) — Driven Labo; detailed the weekly podcast + clipper-crew content pipeline and the Cars, Crypto & Coffee blueprint.
• Valerie (@VDizzle777) — Onchain Media creator #1; praised Rachel's empathy and mental-health advocacy, and the free creator sessions.
• Based (@Based_AllMight) — community mod and "chief poster"; humor-as-networking philosophy; graciously absorbed the donut roast.
• Nicholas Sherrill (@its_nicolaus) — designer (Atmos Studio); offered Rachel the Austin coffee stop and praised the community's warmth.
• 0xJoshua (@0xJoshua) — former Opolis colleague; noted Rachel became "part of the tide" that raises all boats.
• Dan (@brokenrealitydh) — web/mini-app dev; called in from the road, cutting in and out.
• Kieran (@KieranOnBase) — OG Base creator; asked the forward-looking questions and mentioned the ongoing build-a-thon.
• Keegan (@Keegan) — V-Friends; thanked Rachel via the Teaching Tuesdays connection.
• Scrimmy (@YoungScrimmage) — Stand with Crypto / Pizza DAO collaborator; prompted the favorite-memory stories.
• Numia (@AlphanumeriaSol) — dev (first time in the room), joined via Peanut; leaned into the "love what you do" and no-man-is-an-island themes.
• Profits over Wages (@ShaniceBest) — Stand with Crypto Florida chapter president; first-time speaker, offered Florida support.
• Zaal (@bettercallzaal) — Clipper crew; popped in at the start before his own stream.
• Bright (@ihechukwu22) — first-time visitor; warm congratulations.
• Penguin (@AzosFinance) — OG client; "let's make it 10 [years]."

Worth a full listen

• [1:26:42]–[1:31:23] — Chris's origin story and Rachel's response. The summary can't carry the genuine emotion of a livestreamer welling up mid-broadcast and the room rallying around him.
• [1:58:34]–[2:02:45] — Based's how-I-got-here story sliding straight into the flowers-and-donuts roast. The tonal turn from heartfelt to "throw cookie dough at him" is the room's humor at its best.
• [2:30:00]–[2:33:19] — Rachel's full Waka Flocka concert story, walk-in music and all. It's a genuinely fun crypto-meets-hip-hop tale that loses its rhythm in condensed form.