what's base?
Base is a Layer 2 blockchain solution built in partnership with Optimism, offering sub-second and sub-cent payments with deep Coinbase integration. The project focuses on global payments, financial services, and creator monetization tools.
DeepNodeAI XP claim went live on Base, alongside new projects, builder programs, and stablecoins.
Included as one of fourteen supported destination chains for Circle's new crosschain forwarding service for Bridge Kit and Circle Gateway.
DX Terminal Pro completed a Genesis Token presale on Base.
Achieved a 24-hour peak revenue rate of $14,900 per hour.
Reached $750M+ total inflows across three deployments (Plasma, Ethereum, Base) for Aave integrations with syrupUSDC and syrupUSDT.
Available as a deposit network for ROBO token listing on Bybit spot trading platform on February 27, 2026.
Supports deposits and trading on MetaMask's self-custodial crypto debit card launched with Mastercard across 49 U.S. states.
Onyxpacks GachaMachines went live on Base.
Upshot Cards launched prediction play feature on Base.
Integrated with Ethos Network for human verification solutions on the network.
Integrated with Alchemy for AI agent payments using stablecoins via x402 protocol, starting February 26, 2026.
Vaulted (vaultedgefi) opened private beta on Base, offering a credit layer where users can deposit wstETH, weETH, or Morpho vault receipts as collateral to mint USDVE stablecoin with zero interest.
Integrated with Hinkal Protocol for universal privacy features in February 2026.
Reached $3 million in trading volume in a fully agentic trading environment through DX terminal.
Integrated with Origin Protocol's stablecoin infrastructure through Morpho markets deployment on Base.
Participated in a community AMA hosted by DefinitiveFi on February 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM PT, featuring team members and traders discussing trading activity and product updates.
flowdotbid launched on Base on February 26th, 2026.
Launched GLDY on Base, representing 1 oz of physical gold, as the first institutional-grade gold token with yield.
A malicious contract deployed on Base extracted 4,588,196,709,531 FOOM tokens from "Foom Club: Lottery", which were then bridged to Ethereum via LayerZero and swapped for approximately 161 ETH (~$332K).
Enabled as a deposit and withdrawal network on BitMEX for USDC and USDT with low-fee transactions.
Launched learning hub in collaboration with luly_io to provide onchain education for retail users.
Nansen's API integrates x402 to accept USDC payments on Base.
Frame partners with Base to provide free Claude AI access to Base builders who connect their GitHub accounts.
Integrated with easya_app, welcoming the application to launch on the network.
Avantis (avantisfi) integrated gasless transactions on Base
Launched leaderboards on Coinbase_NFT platform and base.dev featuring builder codes for potential rewards.
Talent Protocol, backed by Coinbase, provides access to 6 million builders on Base through a strategic partnership with SELFCLAW.
Left Optimism's Superchain in early February 2026, taking 97% of the collective's real economic value, citing faster shipping, reduced dependencies, and keeping fees in-house to build a proprietary stack.
Continues to drive the onchain AI meta, contributing to Virtual's 20% rebound.
Holds 31,582 BTC ($2.15B) in wrapped or bridged Bitcoin on the network as of February 25, 2026.
Supervisor V2 launches on Base, featuring guardian and depositor veto capabilities on material vault changes during timelock periods.
Collaborates with Bankr, CRED, and Helix to build agentic infrastructure for the crypto industry.
GPS (GoPlus) listed on Bithumb's KRW market on February 24, 2026, as a Web3 security layer on the Base network.
Partnered with Coinbase Australia and Infinex to launch Red Packets (digital red envelopes) on Base blockchain for Lunar New Year celebration, with $888 USDC distributed through the program.
Included as one of the supported chains in MoonPay's multi-chain agent product alongside Solana, Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, BNB Chain, Avalanche, Tron, and Bitcoin.
JPMorgan launched a deposit token on Base.
Led the Self-Sustaining Agents hackathon at ETHDenver focused on autonomous agent business models and revenue streams.
Hosts a large-scale agentic finance simulation with mid-six-figure inference costs for LLM-powered agent activity conducted onchain.
Enables direct messaging integration with Lens Protocol and Worldcoin through XMTP.
Released filter and sort functionality in the Base app to help users manage wallet contents.
Hosting a community AMA on 2026-02-27 at 9:00am PT featuring live discussion with the Base team and traders, including product updates, marketing updates, and community Q&A.
Reached $10 million in revenue within 377 days of launch
Compared to Base in a podcast discussion about Vision Chain positioning itself as "the Base of Europe" for regulated finance.
A WETH-AIX liquidity pool is available on Base through QuickSwap with 116.35% APR and $56,910 TVL.
A USDC-AERO leveraged farming vault is available on Base through Extra Finance with 18.18% current APY, 18.87% 30-day average APY, and $7,550,000 TVL.
A HYDX-USDC liquidity vault is available on Base through Ichi Foundation with 46.03% APR and $723,690 TVL.
Ranks first among all chains by stablecoin transaction volume.
Integrated with Stargate Finance to enable bridging of FT token between Base, Sonic, Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Avalanche.
Supports native ETH bridging via Hyperlane's Nexus with Arbitrum, Ethereum, and Optimism without unwrapping.
Basenames (base.eth subdomains) have been minting at a rate of 10,000-30,000 daily since December 2025.
dammnxyz is a DeFi protocol specializing in automated microsaving onchain and is deployed on Base Chain.
Processed $17 trillion in stablecoin volume.
Launched CLI tool (npx awal) for Coinbase smart wallets on Base, authenticates via email verification, enables AI agent-controlled trading with sponsored gas fees, and deployed programmable, gasless infrastructure for agent-native wallets.
Captured 40% of Ethereum L2 inflows over a 30-day period, ranking #1 in inflows with over $242M in same-chain swaps.
Uptopia supports a collaboration campaign with Legend Base ETH and MrFreeman0 featuring a $1000 prize pool, promoting building on Base.
Hosts a wstETH incentive campaign that achieved $9,900 in TVL per $1 spent.
GenLayer went live on Base, enabling multiple AI models to browse the web and reach onchain consensus together for subjective decisions.
MVL Chain integrated with Base App to provide free rides to ETH Denver attendees who booked via the Tada mini app.
Royaltiz brought athletes to Base including Aurélien Tchouaméni.
Compound v4 will launch on Base, offering yield, lending, and borrowing that can be embedded directly into other apps on Base.
Mentioned in a promotional tweet about Avatar48's $AYA token launch, highlighting Base as the deployment chain.
Malicious actors are actively monitoring and exploiting upgradeable smart contracts on the Base blockchain by targeting non-atomically deployed and initialized proxies.
Activates Uniswap protocol fees on all v3 pools across eight additional blockchain networks, including Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism.
Received a 118 million OP grant from Optimism contingent on continued Superchain participation, with 42 million OP vested and 76 million OP unvested as of February 2026, vesting at 4.47 million OP per quarter.
Integrated with Sovra (an autonomous AI agent by Gajesh) which uses Base for onchain contracts enforcing the agent's identity and treasury, alongside Solana.
Upshot Cards beta launched on Base, a prediction market card game with points earning available before TGE.
Supports deployment of Universal Profiles through the openclaw AI agent.
Awarded $50,000 grant to Upshot; Virtuals launched Base Batches 003 with Startup, Student, and Robotics tracks, offering mentorship, up to $50k in funding, and a Demo Day stage in San Francisco.
Uniswap ranks #1 for fee revenue on Base, with volume mostly consisting of $clanker tokens.
Clanker_world ranks #2 for fee revenue on Base.
Emblem AI wallets expanded to Base network.
Integrated with Hustle to provide support for all of Hustle's advanced features on Base.
Total Value Locked declined from $5.3 billion to $3.9 billion.
Integrated f(x) Protocol as fxUSD launches on Base, enabling pay-as-you-go X API access using USDC for agent services and onchain AI payments through Heurist for 30+ AI models.
Hosts a trading contest from February 18 to March 20, 2026, offering over $50,000 in prizes including $50,000 USDC and up to 50% of Definitive revenue to up to 50 top traders by PnL.
Integrated with Anoma's Multi Asset Shielded Pool (MASP) to enable shielded USDC transactions using zero-knowledge proofs that conceal sender, receiver, amount, and asset type.
Supports USDC vaults on Base as part of Summer Finance's DAO Managed Vaults infrastructure launching in the week of February 23, 2026.
Contributes 13.4 ETH per day (94%) to Optimism Collective, generated 3,886 ETH revenue ($7.61 million) over 13 months.
Beezie app expanded to Base and generated approximately $13 million in revenue within a few weeks, with over $25 million in volume and 150,000+ claw pulls recorded on the chain.
Works on on-chain attribution system using Builder Codes and ERC-8021 standard to enable tracking of app-level user activity, conversion rates, and retention metrics across applications built on the network.
Increased fees by 2.5x, raising minimum base fee from 2M to 5M wei.
Ends sequencer revenue sharing with Optimism, representing over 90% of Superchain revenue. Enables future optionality for potential native token launch.
Coinbase expanded its crypto-backed lending product on Base to support XRP, ADA, and LTC as collateral via Morpho, allowing U.S. users to borrow up to $100,000 in USDC.
Goes live on 2026-02-19 at approximately 01:56 GMT
A wallet bridged 100 ETH from Ethereum mainnet to Base and deployed the entire amount into Claunch in two transactions.
Hosts Treasure_DAO's AI Frens platform, a UGC platform for creating autonomous AI agents that earn compute, self-improve, and build virtual worlds.
Integrated with mteamisloading's transaction aggregation service, which has processed over $500M in volume and is expanding to Base mainnet.
$BOY, powered by ASI:One (Fetch.ai's product), went live on Base.
Emmet's Universal Profile deployed on Base and Ethereum networks at address 0x1089E1c613Db8Cb91db72be4818632153E62557a.
Doubled upgrade cadence to 6 hard forks per year, transitioning to an independent codebase with a bi-monthly schedule and smaller hard forks after the unified stack launch.
Processed $1 billion per week in transaction volume on Base as of February 2026.
Ended fee revenue sharing arrangement with OP Collective, previously 13.15 ETH per day vs 0.84 ETH from other Superchain chains.
Generates 97% of Superchain revenue, operates as highest-revenue L2 in the OP Stack ecosystem. Represents 91% of Superchain revenue in February 2026.
Pivoted to a sovereign L2 stack, utilizing a Reth-centric stack with TEE/ZK proofs and validity proofs. Launched "Base V1" hardfork independent from Optimism's OP Stack on February 18, 2026.
Targets 99.99% non-empty blocks and predictable, low fees as reliability metrics.
Integrates Xyber's x402 payment protocol on Base for pay-per-task AI agents and research tools, hosts queryable Epstein emails at $0.001 per query in USDC.
Reached 500 ETH in trading volume within the first 24 hours on Abstract Chain for ClankerZone deployments.
DXRG financial simulation scheduled to go live on February 24, 2026, expected to generate millions of agent transactions.
Generated $465k in gas fees from trading activity over the past 7 days, representing 47% of total gas fees on the network.
Integrated with deBridge Finance to power cross-chain swaps in Anchorage Porto, supporting Base alongside Solana, BNB Chain, and 22+ other chains.
Ranked second among chains in weekly mindshare growth with +2.47%, behind Solana at +6.6% and ahead of Zora at +0.74%.