Forge Fridays 🎙️❤️‍🔥🙌

Host: Rachel (@RachelOnchain) · Fri, Aug 28, 2026 · ~1h28m · 14 detected speakers

TL;DR

• The debut of Forge Fridays, a new recurring show from On-Chain Media in collaboration with Token Forge (the $PBTC / Pepe Bitcoin launchpad on Base), set up by community manager Kitty.
• Founder/dev Sebastian walked through the whole product: origin story, the move to Base, quick-launch vs. advanced launch modes, presale types, anti-dump wallet protection, staking, the $COAL deflationary token, and a merch storefront on the roadmap.
• Rachel dropped some IRL alpha: she'll be making content with Stand With Crypto at the LA Solana event and visiting a senator's office to advocate for the Clarity Act.
• A running theme: cross-community pollination across Base, Solana, and Avalanche — no chain maxis allowed.
• Van Ho announced she'll be MCing the Avalanche Summit, introducing headline speakers like Kevin O'Leary.
• A 50 USDC giveaway ran throughout; the show closes as a bi-weekly, with a full livestream walkthrough planned next.

Highlights

[7:35] Sebastian introduces Token Forge. The founder and sole developer explains he's newish to crypto, built the whole thing himself — smart contracts, web app, the lot — and that what began ~1.5 years ago as a meme coin evolved into a no-code token launchpad on Base.

[22:35] The origin story. Sebastian recounts getting burned by scams in small-cap land and thinking "why not start my own project so I know it's not a scam?" After the original chain shut down with no migration path — "pretty much a mess" — he chose Base for low fees and Coinbase's weight, relaunched $PBTC, and built the launchpad he wished he'd had.

[31:44] The product deep-dive. Sebastian breaks down quick-launch (a $25, two-minute, few-clicks flow) vs. the advanced creator, three presale modes (bonding curve, fixed price, stepped price), mandatory team-allocation vesting, community staking, and wallet protection with an "overflow vesting" mode that limits post-launch dumping to protect investors.

[44:00] Rachel's SoCal alpha + Pierre on pioneering. Rachel reveals she'll be supporting Stand With Crypto with video content at the LA event and heading to a senator's office for the Clarity Act. Peoples (Pierre) follows with a rousing riff on cross-community pollination: "I don't like to call us builders. We are pioneers. We're literally pioneering the foundation of the future."

[49:05] Reset, giveaway, and Rachel's community playbook. Rachel resets the room for the 50 USDC giveaway and shares her genuine-onboarding tip: don't just lurk — post a headshot, introduce yourself, put in the "extra elbow grease" to connect on a human level.

[50:41] Van Ho's Avalanche Summit news. Van Ho announces she'll MC the Avalanche Summit and intro big names like Kevin O'Leary — then tells the story of arriving alone in Miami and being pulled into every photo and side event by the Saga DAO and gaming crowd. "One one-piece tattoo would just change everything for me."

[59:45] Panda tests the pitch. Panda distills Token Forge to "a turnkey solution to launching a token," and Sebastian confirms it — easy, no-code, but still feature-rich. Panda notes that in the AI era "no one really has an excuse not to launch."

[1:06:37] Kieran, a beer, and the Brian Armstrong handshake. Celebrating a gaming-project breakthrough, Kieran cheerfully admits "we're hacking games and stealing stuff to make something bigger than the pieces." Rachel recalls his IRL handshake with Brian Armstrong at a Base event; Kieran: "I'm pretty sure the security guards did not want me next to Brian Armstrong at that moment in time, but I made it work."

[1:13:00] Rex/Driven Labo and the "car district" weekend. The Driven Labo lead maps out the LA weekend — a creator/entrepreneur workshop, the Solana evening event, and a big-time car show sponsored by WD-40 — and offers to introduce Rachel to Race Service's Rod Chong, whose clients include F1, Ferrari, and Lewis Hamilton. Rachel muses, "I love our lives, seriously."

[1:17:09] Meme for Trees funds 350 more trees. James reports another 350 trees funded "with the power of memes," with a quietly self-aware line: "I can share memes and play music by myself all day long and it accomplishes nothing. So I appreciate every one of you guys helping me make this a real thing."

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "I don't like to call us builders. We are pioneers. We're literally pioneering the foundation of the future." — Pierre / Peoples [44:20]
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• "We want to be able to onboard mom, dad, our neighbor, auntie, uncle... the path doesn't stop just here in Web3." — Pierre / Peoples [45:46]
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• "One chain is not one size fits all... the more we grow together, the better it is." — Van Ho [52:04]
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• "I'm pretty sure the security guards did not want me next to Brian Armstrong at that moment in time, but I made it work." — Kieran [1:07:00]
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• "I can share memes and play music by myself all day long and it accomplishes nothing. So I appreciate every one of you guys helping me make this a real thing." — Meme for Trees [1:17:09]
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• "We don't want people to just launch and that's it... if they succeed, then the whole launchpad succeeds." — Sebastian [41:40]
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Who said what

• Rachel (@RachelOnchain), host — launched Forge Fridays, ran intros and the giveaway, shared SoCal/Stand With Crypto alpha, and hyped the LA weekend and every speaker.
• Sebastian (Token Forge, @tokenforge_base), founder/dev — the featured guest; delivered the origin story and a thorough walkthrough of the launchpad's features, tokens ($PBTC/$COAL), and roadmap.
• Victor (@VictorTheMogul), Token Forge community mod — brief intro, emphasized the project's community focus.
• Kitty / Talia (@ThatOneKitty__), community manager — the connector behind the collab; offered firsthand testimonial as a creator who's actually launched with Token Forge (WIFB).
• Peoples / Pierre (@PeoplesMarket24), Saga DAO — joined live from the road to LA; brought the room's biggest energy on community and cross-chain pioneering.
• Van Ho (@VanHoVibes), Avalanche marketer — announced her Avalanche Summit MC gig and championed cross-ecosystem collaboration.
• Chris (@csoriano), On-Chain Media — livestreamed the Space, quick intro as the "DeFi professor" / strategic ops lead.
• Waldo (@waldoforrealz) — the ever-present early arriver; showed up to support builders across all three projects.
• Panda (@PandaPals__) — framed the "turnkey solution" pitch and offered to refer builders.
• Peanut (@peanutt) — praised the simplicity and safety of a one-stop launch tool; plugged the weekly Gallery Meets Media show.
• Kieran (@KieranOnBase), gaming builder — celebrating a project breakthrough; now focused on helping other Base builders find their people.
• Rex/Matt (Driven Labo, @DRVNlabo) — laid out the LA car-culture weekend and offered high-profile automotive intros.
• Meme for Trees / James (@MemeForTrees) — regen builder funding trees via memes; interested in connecting endowment tooling with Token Forge.

Worth a full listen

• [22:35]–[38:17] — Sebastian's uninterrupted origin story and product walkthrough is the substantive core; the presale modes and wallet-protection mechanics don't compress well into bullets.
• [44:00]–[49:05] — Rachel's event alpha rolling into Pierre's community monologue and her genuine-onboarding advice; the warmth and momentum here is the show's emotional center.
• [1:13:00]–[1:15:50] — Rex's car-weekend rundown and Rachel's "the Driven Labo effect" tangent capture the IRL-events energy and the crossover between car culture and on-chain community.