BASE-ically Loading: What’s Coming Next for R0AR & the Market | YWR ep28

BASE-ically… we’ve got a lot more to talk about.

In this episode, Dustin and Brandon dive deeper into the R0AR ecosystem’s expansion onto Base Chain and what it means for the future of the market.

From infrastructure and liquidity to upcoming platform releases, this conversation breaks down what’s already happening behind the scenes — and what’s coming next.

We also zoom out to look at the bigger picture:

📈 Where the market could be heading

🧠 Why Base is becoming a key layer for growth

🚀 And how R0AR is positioning for the next phase of Web3

If you’ve been paying attention, you already know…

this is just the beginning.

Weekly ROAR Podcast with Dustin Hedrick & Brandon Billings
Sponsored by https://www.r0ar.io/

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Folks, welcome back to your weekly roar. We're now broadcasting very soon, not just across podcasts, your video cast that you see live right here, not just through our podcast distribution through Apple iTunes and wherever else you're hearing us and all the different platforms. There are so many. But we are now getting ready to enter our era of radio. We'll get into that in just a minute. But welcome back to your weekly ROAR wherever you're listening to us from. I'm Dustin Hedrick.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

And I'm Brandon Billings. This week we've got a packed update. So everything from major AR ecosystem developments to market conditions and some critical regulation ships happening in the U.S.

SPEAKER_00 0:49

So let's talk a little bit about Roar updates and travel because we have been insane. So let's start with what's happening on our side. We've just gone on a North Carolina trip where we met with a lot of folks, had a speaking engagement that we met with business leaders, a lot of meet and greets, and that's literally led into some of the stuff I just mentioned with the recording, the radio piece. Um, guys, some incredible conversations. We've recorded content while we're there, and we're going to be doing more things to lay out behind the scenes and insights on what came from all that in the coming weeks.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

Yeah, and we're also continuing to level up the show itself, uh, moving from just a podcast to full broadcast format with producers, distribution, and expanded reach.

SPEAKER_00 1:40

And seriously, that's that's a lot because you I'm interjecting here, but Brandon has got a ton of friends, have a ton of reach, and so they heard some of the things we're doing, turned around and said, that is very exciting. Hey, have you considered radio? We're like, no, but we both have a face for radio, so this is probably a good idea.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

So that's true.

SPEAKER_00 2:03

So, anyways, go ahead, Brandon.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

Yeah, so uh ERS on base. One of the biggest updates is the Executive Roar Society is officially preparing for launch on base chain. I know, right? That's that in Excel is exciting. We haven't announced the exact mint date yet, but everything is already set up on OpenC. Uh, and this time we're coming in with a major advantage. We already have a blue check mark partner on OpenSea, uh, which means that significantly more visibility, stronger placement, and better exposure right out of the gate.

SPEAKER_00 2:40

Dude, and that was the biggest thing. That was so hard to get through that process, just that verification. I remember going back and forth and back and forth, and even in the mint process, we didn't have the support of OpenSea. We actually didn't get that blue check mark and our first um OpenSea support until after we had sold out and we were in secondary sales. I know we sold out, got secondary sales, and then they're like, okay, you can be blue check mark verified. And if you want, you can use a launch pad. It's like we already did it without a launch pad. So congratulations, community. That was all you guys. It was a lot of fun doing that. It's gonna be a lot of fun now. And it's funny, we back then we were in that um, what do you want to call it, D Gen mindset, goofing around on social media? We may do that again, but honestly, ERS has grown up and it's something much more, much more exciting. And as we release month after month new software, which you're gonna hear about like five or six this month, as well as we bring back some of the software in season two that we've already done. ERS is built into all of it. And so this is a great time to take advantage of that, both if you've never been in ERS because it's gonna expand your your use and membership and your um benefits, but also if you've been in, you're gonna want to use get one in because you want to get on base and it's gonna function on base chain where the first generation's only on ETH. Now, we're always gonna support all chains. So if you're just on Ethereum, good for you. If you jump on base, good for you again. So if you're holding, you know, NFTs that are ERC ERS family, we'll be taking a snapshot of those, and you'll already be in for the whitelist. And then new guys, get ready because I'm telling you, they meant it quick last time. They're gonna go fast this time. It's gonna be a lot of fun. And before it even mints, you're gonna actually hear about all of the software, tools, reach, and more that come with it. The benefits are massively expanding, both for old and new. So we're not forgetting our folks have been with us since the beginning. You OGs, you're about to get expanded benefits. Big friggin' time. We've been holding up a lot of information. Like we said, it's gonna come on you like a freight train. So get ready. Um, but yeah, so the next thing is, you know, let's talk about events and investor expansion because that's really where we have moved slowly. For those of you guys who are just meeting us, we've largely been doing this ourselves. It's been a lot of internal funding and investment. We've kept it very shoestring inside of our space, even though we've got a team with support of over 200 around the world in our full ecosystem. We've done it on a budget. And a lot of that budget's come out of our hides. And now, because of what we've proven and what we've got on tap, as well as the maturity of all of our ecosystem, our entities, and the Roar Country Club and our reach, we now have folks that are standing at the door knocking, saying, How can I get in for a piece of that governance and be a part of investing in this for the future? And so we've got two new investor-focused events coming up. These will be opportunities not to just present, but to meet, connect, and build relationships directly with investors. I'm excited. I guess you probably couldn't tell. But anyway, on top of that, we've been accepted as a featured startup at Cointelegraph and Coindesk consensus events and parties. So we just got through that approval process. Your roar, big milestone. We'll put it out on social this week. We just got listed as a featured startup. What? Now there's a strong possibility they're gonna be selected as a featured presenter. So we're currently in the running for one of those limited slots. You got to do pitch decks and 60-minute whatever, and or 60 seconds not 60 minutes, 60 second elevator pitches. We're turning all of that in this week, and we're gonna hear back on whether or not we get a slot on stage. Those are hard to come by. So even if that doesn't happen, the meet and greets, our information being out there, the marketing that comes with it, as well as all of the events where we're meeting with investors, is already huge. And so that's just icing on the cake. Now, that's not all. We have a literal director that's working with investments, grants, and expansion for our Roar ecosystem now. And so you'll hear more of his name and what he does later. Um, he's gonna be going with us, but he's also opened up more events, two more events this year, where we're gonna be doing meet and greets with investors, VCs, and more. Guys, this gets exciting because those investments go to things that you don't even know about that were on our 10-year roadmap that speeded up to next year. Guys, we're talking about our five years compacting into the one year, and now our 10 years compacting in two. And we're just saying that the roadmap is more like um a dot instead of a line because it's happening all at once. So super exciting, super grateful, and we're in the rent running for these limited spots, and even if we don't get in, we're already partnered, we're gonna be shouting that out all over social media and putting out some PR and whatnot. That we're now um a featured startup with consensus boom.

SPEAKER_01 8:18

It's exciting. I look forward to uh to getting down there too. Yes, me too. Uh so let's see, uh token 2049, we got an update. Um so unfortunately it's been postponed. But it actually kind of worked in our favor uh because it's opened up our schedule. Now we're able to go do some of those things that Dustin was just talking about uh with another investor event. And so, you know, for us the momentum doesn't slow down, we just keep rolling. Uh whatever opportunities are ahead of us, we just go one to the next to the next to the next. And so when that one didn't work out, we'll still go to uh token 2049, it just it'll be at a different time. So I'm looking forward to that.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

Me too. I am too. We're we've also got more that we don't even know about yet because when you go to one, you get invited to more. And guys, we have folks literally beating down our door to start writing articles and start shouting everything out. We actually have an exact timeline we're following for how we release information because we want to make sure everyone gets the biggest benefit at the same time. So there were leaks before, and there was you know, pumping and dumping and jumping from community, and we're just not doing that. We're becoming very focused, laser focused on how information is conveyed, shared. We know exactly what we're doing every week. And let me tell you something, Brandon and I, we're doing like seven things at a time every given week that we're checking in on. That's not a joke, that is legitimate. So we're right on schedule, our team is right on schedule, our marketing team, community support teams, right on schedule, right on point. Legal team is on point. One more thing to say about that. If you're out there in the RCC Roar Country Club and you're like, got questions about the governance, I've been in the platform, whatever, it takes time to respond. We thought it'd be like 24, 48 hours, it can take up to a week. We got a lot going on because all the teams have to do all the things they do very well, and they're killing it. So if you're out there on our team, thank you for being amazing. You guys are incredible. Go love on our community leaders, our mods, love on all those guys that are supporting in every way in social media. You don't know this, but there are a load of people involved in everything from X platform, Discord, Telegram, the Dow on RCC platform. You guys are incredible. So thank you to everyone. It's all happening. But at the end of the day, I just want to say that even as you hear this next piece, I am ultra bullish because I know what's coming for the next three months, I know what's coming for the next six months, I know what's coming for the next year. We do. We can see it. And now we're gonna dream about a 10-year plan being in our two-year plan. I'm just saying, okay. Crypto markets this week. Let's dig into what's really happening this last week and coming into this next week. Let's shift into the market. It's been choppy. I mean, that's all you can say. It's been choppy. Bitcoin's been sitting around 70,000. It's up and down, down roughly 5 or 6% over last week. Ethereum followed that move, hovering around the 2100 to 2300 range. I got nothing to say about that except for I love it when it pumps because it drives the value of one roar up. So that's all cool. But overall, short-term sentiment is slightly bearish or sideways. And I want to add to this that is not the case at one roar. And you will see over the next month, there are about four things coming we have not talked about that will be released one at a time, right on time, that literally affect dislodging one roar from being stuck with that. So, right now we are following that because we are connected to Ethereum and we will stay there. But there are four other things coming for our ecosystem that will directly, directly affect our token. And that's exciting because until September 10th, we have this clean process with the airdrop ongoing, with the release of tokens entering the market all the way till September, but we're already going to see something shifting because of those four different magical dynamics. So, yes, market sideways. We're tracking with it. We see it. You've seen OneWorld's been tracking almost exactly with the market. I'm excited to say that that is very, very shortly going to be challenged by pressures that are outside of those dynamics control. Boom.

SPEAKER_01 12:55

Wow, bro. I I was afraid you were about to get leaky there for a minute.

SPEAKER_00 13:00

No leaks here, baby. Hey, legal's all up in my business, you know. Like, just saying, we have learned they I've been trained about the leakage.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, you know, you're talking about the market. Um, there's a few drivers uh behind that movement. I want to talk about that real quick. First, uh the Fed signaling uh higher for longer interest rates. That continues to put pressure on risk assets like crypto. Uh second, ongoing geopolitical tension and inflation uh concerns, and then third, ETF flows have cooled a bit. Uh still positive overall, but we're seeing short-term outflows. So uh that's kind of the drivers behind that choppy movement, right?

SPEAKER_00 13:43

And as expected, I think you know the interest rates thing for being uh you know higher for longer, it that tied with the fact that Jerome Powell said that he's gonna break with all propriety and break with standards of the Fed. He's even breaking with history and what's appropriate, and he's talking about staying past his term. Thank God we have term limits, at least on the president, because it is really weird when people say, you know what, I am not, I'm quote quote, not affecting the market, and I am quote quote, I stand as a person in the middle, I have no political agenda, and yet they're saying, but I'm not leaving because I won't allow some other political party to get any change over or affect the market in a good way. That is bizarre to me that he's talking about staying past his term and doing something that just isn't done. What's going on there? Well, it doesn't matter how we feel, doesn't matter what your politic is or what side of the aisle you fall on. Let me talk from middle aisle for us right now in crypto. If you're a crypto bro out there, I'm with you right now. Here it is. All that screams is a lack of confidence in what happens with the Fed going forward and what can happen to the economy. We're not even talking about what's reality for interest or whether things are inflated or deflated. We're talking about people that are saying that they're going to mess with stuff in a way they shouldn't. This is very similar to what happened in the past that's been called out right now with big entities, and I'll say names like JP Morgan and others who've screwed with everything from silver to gold to crypto and done the opposite of what they've even said they were supposed to do out in public, thus pumping, dumping, and doing all kinds of stuff weird to market. At the end of the day, these people are going to get called out on the fact that they have created crypto that doesn't exist by manipulating futures and gambling kinds of solutions and software that are out there supposed to be used for insurances and you know exchanges that aren't telling the truth about how much crypto they really have, and thus doing what banks do. You put one dollar in the bank, they spend nine against it. Nine, nine against it, not seven, eight, nine, nine against it. One dollar, they spend nine against it. So a crypto exchange that isn't literally locked in a ledger, so not a decentralized exchange that is locked, you know, wallets to wallets and automated, but those that function as order books, you can't tell me that we're putting in one and they're recording that only one is used. I'm thinking that when everything's revealed and there's some clarity on it, that explains some stuff, and I'll tell you who messes with that the most, and we talked about it because at the the the judicial level they're playing with it in courts, and they're pushing out money that should have already been pushed out years ago in 2016 when things failed. They're pushing it out now to mess with token values. I guarantee they're doing the same things. These big boys are gonna get caught, and it's gonna come, but that is affecting our market right now, and with people saying that they're gonna stand in the way of that kind of clarity. Hello, friends, I'm just saying it's just crypto bros, they're still against us. So it might not be Senator Warren and Schumer and Pelosi, and it may not be some of those bigger, noisier people, but Jay Pattel is still here and drome is going to do what drome do. So get ready for that. Oh, and we can't even forget Gensler, SEC, and CFTC. All of them. They're gonna do what they're gonna do. And until that's dealt with, that's gonna constantly affect the subconscious of the market in crypto. So, underlying strength, let's go to the good news. Here's where it gets interesting. Underneath the short-term weakness, the fundamentals are strong now. There are arguments that can be made here. Institutional adoption is continuing to rise. The Fed adopted at the at the very treasury adopted the use of crypto and the implementation of it in function. So we're seeing major players like BlackRock, MasterCard, the Treasury pushing deeper into either tokenization or function and use. Bitcoin supply on exchanges is still low. What does that signal? That people aren't trying to sell, sell, sell, and that is structurally bullish. And so the summary is simple. Short-term weakness is long-term strength. And I'll say this with the timing that we're in right now, as we're rolling out each thing, whether it's each software we roll out, each solution that's coming, each event that we're in, some big news that we can't talk about yet that I want to leak about. Oh my goodness. We're waiting on the NDAs to run out and for teams that we're contracted with to say you can talk about it. But some of these things, and then you put to that some of the news that we have coming for our Roar Chain 2.0, the biggest radical upgrade you've ever heard of, and power in-house to the community, and the nodes, and all of that coming together, and September 10th, and other announcements I can't say, hyper bullish for that.

SPEAKER_01 19:29

Hyper bullish for sure. Let's talk about something that's flying under the radar, but that still matters, and that is the Save Act. And you say, why the Save Act, right? It's not a crypto bill. It's focused on voting laws and citizenship, uh, voter ID requirements, that sort of thing. Uh, but it impacts crypto indirectly because it's contributing to a political gridlock, which is slowing down progress on actual crypto legislation. Uh Dustin, you want to talk about that a little bit?

SPEAKER_00 20:01

Yeah, I mean, I'll jump in. Um, what's the impact? Uh the first thing is short term, it's still creating uncertainty and delays. We're so close to clarity, which is what it says Clarity Act. Clarity on so much more. And I won't get into that one, but the Save Act is holding us back from the clarity and it's creating uncertainty and delays. Long term, it's mostly neutral for crypto itself. It's not an anti-crypto law or rule at all. So I'm kind of you know neutral on it when it comes to that, but it's slowing down clarity. Clarity Act is coming. So bring talk about the Clarity Act. Let's just let's dig into it for a minute.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

Yeah, the Clarity Act actually is a big one. So this is a major U.S. crypto market structure bill, and it's already passed the House and is currently stuck in the Senate as of um now, uh, March 2026.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

So let's talk about what it does. Let's break it down. It defines crypto categories, and commodities fall under the CFTC, securities under the SEC. We've long said the Howie ruling is important for how we see you know a token and how it fits, whether an ERC20 is one thing or another, or an ERC 1155 and 721 or something else. We've got a deep understanding of this. How RWA is gonna work. This is all affected. So let's just be clear crypto is moving forward, development's moving forward, and there's more money going back into it right now than for many years. Like a lot of people took time off. We've been building the whole time, a lot of people took two years off. So we did not. Long story short, it's it's stifling everything from just running. So this is gonna give the CFTC authority over crypto spot. Markets. This speaks back to the playing around that some people are doing. They're using what should be risk management and insurances for people who are maybe in some kind of fund management. It's it's taken it from that, and it's more like gambling, pumping and dumping, and spiking or creating um what we call it in the stock market world, naked short selling, where people sell stock they don't own. It's just naked, and they cover it within a fraction of seconds. Crypto can make that faster. I mean, heck, honestly, we could build something and spin it up that does flash lending and flash trading and do that in the market. We can manipulate markets like that. We do not. We choose to stay within our zone and do things that are legal and legitimate, but it's possible. And so with the legal, it makes it better because it creates a framework for exchanges, what we call the digital commodity exchanges and more. So importantly, it's gonna allow tokens to evolve from securities or security-like into commodities over time. It's also gonna begin introducing a structure for stable coins and DeFi. This is super important. The banks hate us. The banks hate us. I won't get in those converse controversies. I'm gonna let Brandon do that in a second. It's just because we can give away so much and we keep it lean and we don't have the overhead. So this part that part is still developing. Brandon, take that up for us.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

Yeah, so there are some major debates around this bill. Um, the the whole stablecoin yield, banks versus crypto native firms, um, the ongoing SEC versus CFTC power struggle, and then concerns around national security and AML compliance, right? So all of that's kind of wrapped up into what you were just talking about.

SPEAKER_00 23:51

And to be honest, the banks are fighting us. Legacy banking is fighting hardcore. It's funny because this you're gonna hear us talk more and more in our white papers, as we already have in our podcasts, about where banking fits and where legacy banking fits in this future. Um, there's a place, there's a place. We've been talking about it. We're talking more and more. However, they're afraid that we're able to give away better yields, and they know that dollars are going to leave the legacy fiat world and come into the stable coin market. Why? Because honestly, you can't afford for your money to be dumb anymore. I mean, honestly, your money is dumb in markets. Where, let's be clear, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you, this is insane. But you're getting fractions of a penny of percentages on your money in a bank, even if it's giving you a dividend of some sort. It's just not anything much. Fractions. Even if you do something that's more long-term locked in, and you get a CD money market account, your returns are up to a certain percent. Those percentages, they cannot match what's going on in crypto because of low overhead and immediacy of function and use and utility and value creation. The assets are really doing something, crypto. So do you want to put your money in something that's gonna make you $10 for every $100,000 you put in over a six-month to a year period? Or do you want something that can give you what used to be mutual fund rate returns north of four to five percent, up to twelve percent and more? Inside the regular financial world, you've got to get into some really risky stuff to get those returns. But in crypto, it could be against a stable coin that's not fluctuating, it's against the US dollar and treasury, and you're getting mutual fund returns on your cash. Are you getting me? That's nonsense. And the banks are scared to death, as they should be. But instead of fighting this, what they should do is come alongside it because it's a great future for all of us. So if this bill passes, it's gonna give clarity to, I think, literally put fire on the market and drive crypto adoption because the yields are so insane. It's gonna protect the geniuses in crypto. It's a game changer. It unlocks institutional capital to enter the market for real, not in some fund that is fakely held that they can spend nine times against whatever the real holding is and create more tokens that don't exist and aren't really locked on a wall and in chain. It's gonna be real positions, real function, one-to-one return, or I mean one-to-one lock. This positions the U.S. as a global crypto hub. Now, that's important because if the U.S. does that, it's a great place to onboard the crypto. In a season where China and other big entities out there that have a lot of money. I mean, you guys, the most billionaires in the world live in China. And all they're doing is offboarding from crypto. You cannot get on crypto in China. You can have their CBDC, which is not crypto, and they will track you and shut your world down. But they're happy to offload your crypto in their world. So they've opened up exchanges to sell out and get your cash out, but you cannot get your cash in. So we're gonna be the place where it can be onboarded and offboarded. We're becoming the center. So this creates bullish momentum across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and major assets. But if it stalls or fails, we're gonna continue with regulatory uncertainty, stagnant markets like that, or whatever. Innovation's gonna move offshore and adoption slows down. Let's be honest, some our partners are offshore because it's it's best for the market right now and best for what we're doing. You don't even know about those guys yet. And I'm not leaking anything, Brandon, but some of those are that way because of we're we're we're doing what's best for this ecosystem in any eventuality, and that makes sense. So, guys, this is great for us. If it doesn't come forward fast enough, it's gonna be hard on the market. Like I told you just a minute ago, we're actually d-leveraging from the market in a lot of ways, and that's gonna create a lot of pressure on our token in the next little bit. So there you go. I'm telling you up front, everyone's getting the information at the same time. Nothing's backdoor pumpy dumpy. This is just reality. Watch and see.

SPEAKER_01 28:49

Yeah, you know, Dustin, I think uh maybe we dive a little deeper on the future of banking um for another podcast. That that sounds like a great topic.

SPEAKER_00 28:58

Yes, please, a lot more. Multiples ongoing when we're on the radio.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

I love that.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

I know.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

Uh, but let's let's tie this all together real quick. This is how it connects. The Save Act is contributing to delays, right? The Clarity Act is what we're looking for. We need that to define that long-term future, and the macro conditions like Fed policy and liquidity are currently driving market behavior. So that's what's going on right now.

SPEAKER_00 29:27

Right on. And as far as the Save Act goes, it would be good to get some clarity there too. I mean, confidence in our elections is just a no-brainer. And and I'm not going to go down the political, you know, pundit pipeline, but I will say this. Every major country, yeah, um, out of 180 that are legitimate, not just territories, but countries, every major country, including some of the ones that are actually picking on the US about it and saying that we shouldn't have it, it's interesting because they all have those laws at a federal level. That's right. So it's like this is actually a no-brainer, um, especially when you got 18 states that cannot verify their roles, their information, and they're actually overnumbered based on adult population that lives there. So when it's like 1.7 more, 1.7 million more voters who can vote on every election or that do vote on these elections out of 18 states, and they don't have the adult population to support that, guys. That's just opaque. What have I said from the beginning? I think elections should be on blockchain. Ha ha, windfall. We make all the fees too. So bring it to the blockchain, all ledger, all transparent, haha, and that'll fix all of it because it's a one-to-one. But anyway, I mean, they're never gonna do that. I mean, Congress loves to be opaque. I mean, honestly, yeah, nobody in Congress is gonna show you their bank ledger for all they take from all those lobbyists, and that's both sides of the aisle. Yet we run all our business on a multi-sig that you can track just saying. So we're transparent. That's what it is. So final takeaways. Enough of that chatter. I just love pissing Congress off. I like punching both sides of the aisle. Yeah. So here's the bottom line. Short term, the market is macro driven. Midterm, it's policy driven. And the single biggest catalyst ahead is regulatory clarity in the United States, and that's truth. Um, and then that brings money our way. The biggest risk right now isn't the market, it's political gridlock. And again, good news for you guys at Roar, we're moving forward irregardless. We're moving forward with partners, we're moving forward with the best next steps. We've never stopped developing and working this whole time. Guys, Brenda and I, we put, I don't know, most of you guys work a nine to five job, you put in maybe 40 to 50 hours a week. That's when we're just getting started. So when you're CEOs of something like this and we're co-founders here, that's when you start. There's hustle day, night, and weekends on what we do. And now, as of this last month, you've just started to see it with your eyeballs since last fall. This is exciting. Boom. I love it. All right, that's all for this week's episode of your weekly Roar between ecosystem growth, market movement, and regulation. We're right in the middle of a major shift. So stay informed, stay sharp, follow us everywhere. Click the track, make sure you've got your notifications turned on, and you're following us on whatever platform you're on because we're going to keep you in the know, especially what we're doing at Roar, and um keep shouting out those milestones on our social media. See them post as milestone posts as we do them. You guys stay informed, stay sharp, have a great one. Thanks for being on your weekly Roar.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

Thank you, everybody. Take care.