Launched as a mini app available on the App Store.

Compound v4 will launch on Base, offering yield, lending, and borrowing services that can be embedded directly into other apps on Base.

GenLayer went live on Base, enabling multiple AI models to browse the web and reach onchain consensus together for subjective decisions.

Integrated with Tada rideshare service to offer free rides at ETH Denver, provided by MVL Chain.

Received $FREN token airdrop from PlayEverseed distributed to base app users.

CAKE.PAD by PancakeSwap launched on Base.

Launched a popular apps leaderboard spanning all of Base chain, where apps can tag transactions with builder codes to get distribution and potential future rewards.

Ended the Creator Rewards program after distributing $450,000 to 17,000 creators over seven months.

Generated more than $300,000 in transaction volume through the betrmint mini app.

Removed Farcaster-powered "Talk" feed, replaced with a feed for tradable onchain assets as part of a strategic pivot to prioritize trading.

Launches a global trading competition in partnership with Avantis, running from February 2 to March 2, 2026, with total prize pool of $100,000 distributed weekly ($10K week 1, $15K week 2, $25K week 3, $50K week 4).

Launched the first voice-powered DeFi interface allowing users to swap, bridge, and deposit into omnivaults using spoken commands.

Launched Farm Frens, a casual onchain farming game with real rewards for mobile users.

Announced it will return its entire $50,000 Base grant directly to users, redistributing funds to early believers and future players.

Joined the Base Services Hub as an onchain development agency, with recent work including smart contracts and marketplaces for multiple projects.

Rolled out a full onchain trading suite including limit orders, DCA, multi-swaps, and smart routing across pools.

MetaLeX Labs launched MetaLeX v2 on Base, introducing cyberCORPs, automated onchain fundraising, investor accreditation, and tokenized securities.

Powers payments, businesses, and institutions across Bermuda as the country builds the world's first fully onchain national economy, with support from Coinbase and Circle.

Uniswap deployed Continuous Clearing Auctions on Base, providing builders with new tools for onchain auctions, price discovery, and liquidity bootstrapping on Uniswap v4.

Maple Finance went live on Base, bringing institutional-grade asset management infrastructure to the ecosystem, with Aave support on the way.

Integrated Flexa mini apps for in-person USDC payments at merchants including Chipotle, Barnes & Noble, GameStop, Regal Movies, Ulta Beauty, Sheetz, Kiehl's, Coco Bubble Tea, and IShoppes on Base network.

Base app onboarded 800,000+ users and paid $6 million+ to creators as of mid-January 2026.

Base app has approximately $5 billion in deposits across lending protocols as of mid-January 2026.

Base app received approximately $1.8 billion in inflows over the three months ending mid-January 2026.

Base app has approximately 500,000 daily active users and 8 million monthly active users as of mid-January 2026.

Base app has approximately $5.2 billion in stablecoin supply as of mid-January 2026.

Launched beta version in July 2025.

Processes 10M daily transactions.

Reached $178M in all-time revenue, representing 24% of total Layer 2 revenue.

Processed 5B all-time transactions since launch.

Integrated with Base Verify for identity verification that unlocks in-game rewards

Integrated into base app, resulting in 11% week-over-week user growth for Wasabi protocol.

Offers up to 3.35% APY in rewards for holding USDC.

Simplifies front end with social features, passkeys, and gas abstraction as the SuperApp layer for Coinbase.

BaseCheers feature updated to allow users to create custom QR codes for inviting friends to join the app.

Launched a double tap feature that enables users to support creators and purchase ownership in posts through a double tap interaction.

Released a new app icon designed in collaboration with gavmn.

Enables cash-out functionality to over 30 banks in Nigeria.

Upgraded app discovery feature in the Base App interface on December 20, 2025.

Integrated with Bantr.fun's Base Rewind mini app for viewing 2025 stats, minting, and voting for regional Base communities with rewards.

Integrated with TRON network, enabling TRX token to be bridged to Base via LayerZero, with TRX accessible through decentralized exchanges including Aerodrome.

Released new version with integrated functionality allowing users to purchase meme coins directly using Coinbase account funds.

Has surpassed 10 million downloads on Google Play.

Launched perpetual futures (perps) trading feature.

Running an incentive program with $2 million in total rewards for sign-ups, scheduled to end on December 21, 2025.

Active users are using 3 or more mini apps per week on average.

Completed a rebrand.

footballdotfun is the leading consumer app on Base by revenue.

Integrates Tria payment card, allowing top-ups with any base token for spending, with premium users receiving up to 6% cashback. Integrates appcoins.

Coinbase uses the Base ecosystem as experimentation ground for new onchain primitives including The Base App and x402.

builders_garden launches Control The Stream mini app, turning livestreams into interactive experiences with tip, vote, trade, and betting capabilities for streams like The Rollup and Unchained Podcast.

Platform introduces App Store-style preview flow for mini apps, improving the user interface for app presentation.

Virtual influencer Lil Miquela joins the platform, representing a high-profile creator onboarding with mainstream appeal.

Platform adopts XMTP protocol for decentralized end-to-end encrypted messaging, part of ecosystem with 55 million+ combined users across XMTP-enabled platforms including Worldchain, Zora, Converse, and TemplFun.

Social trading features are in development on the platform.

Base Pay payment standard goes live on Shopify, enabling one-step onchain payments using open standards. MetaLend_DeFi and WowmaxExchange launch mini apps inside Base app, expanding the ecosystem with lending pools and cross-chain swap functionality across 20+ networks.

Spark mini app launches on Base app wallet, offering savings and earning features to users.

Mainstream creators outside crypto increasingly explore and earn on the platform.

Founding Citizen program launches with claimable Base passports through City Protocol HQ partnership.

Base blockchain creator Jesse Pollak buys content on the platform.

Wishwish_art goes live in beta, offering an onchain popmart for artist IP incubation with AR/VR and widget functionality.

x402MKT mini app launches with micropayment infrastructure for pay-to-unlock actions, featuring CryptoToadz NFT minting at $6.90 with $5 LOOP token rebates. BETRMINT runs largest prize round with over $4000 in prizes and 2300 tickets through collaboration with x402market.

BETRMINT 2.0 releases with redesigned interface after 100,000+ spins milestone, and $GLOWUP creator coin launches paired with $BETR.

$ASHNI creator coin launches for content creator Ashni Christ (100K+ followers, WolvesDAO gamer).

Surf ($SURF) integration announced for the platform and Telegram to enable autonomous yield access, with planned multi-asset support starting with Ethereum (WETH) and Bitcoin (cbBTC).

Bond, a new mini app, launches on the platform with a creator monetization model where fans bond money to creators for bonus content access, creators earn the interest, and fans can unbond anytime.

Multiple new mini apps launch including KaitoAI bringing AI research tools, bballxyz enabling basketball player collection and roster building, trylimitless offering crypto and stock price prediction markets across hourly/daily/weekly timeframes, TowerToken releasing Crazy Rush Heroes onchain action rogue-like game, and limone_eth announcing Rise of Farms FarmVille-style open economy game.

Fireside, a new audio spaces application, launches as a native app on the platform and Farcaster.

Users can now pair content with $SOL on the platform. The app's notification interface has been redesigned and repositioned.

Integration with Pigeon Trade launches, providing an AI quant agent for diligence and trading across stocks, coins, perpetuals, creators, and prediction markets on both the app and Telegram.

Users can now claim City Protocol passports through the platform.

A new content series "Builders of baseapp" launches to spotlight team members, starting with 0xSiwan who built the Earnings Hub feature that consolidates all user earnings in one place. A 2026 token launch is referenced in relation to a "70 billion dollar public defi related stock."

Six prediction market projects (Limitless, Context, BrackyHQ, Upshot Cards, PredictBase, and TrueMarkets) are growing as miniapps within the platform.

Pugson joins the team last week.

Partnership with Base Korea launches with distribution of 100 invite codes through a giveaway, with winners announced on December 10th.

Users earn Bitcoin by posting videos on the platform.

A rewards program for platform users who engage in baseposting activity is confirmed.

The team gathers in NYC this week as Jesse Pollak and Chintan Turakhia reveal the app is ready for worldwide launch.

The platform builds open, private, encrypted chat functionality through partnership with XMTP protocol and collaboration with Shane Mac.

Kaito mini app launches on the platform, providing real-time crypto market intelligence and tokenized attention data from CT (Crypto Twitter).

framedotfun mini app goes live enabling trading of any asset and pair in a unified interface. Screenshot support for mini apps rolls out to help developers showcase their applications.

bballxyz mini app launches on the platform, enabling NBA player collection and trading with tournament competitions and rewards.

The platform will soon expand access beyond baseapp to support all apps, with registered apps on base.dev growing vertically since the August launch. (ID: 1993725453471982067)

Team hosts in-person surge week in NYC next week for builders and creators, with past events resulting in new hires for the team.

Limitless mini app launches on the platform, enabling crypto and stock price predictions with hourly, daily, and weekly market timeframes operating 24/7.

Users receive $5 payments from the platform, with at least one user indicating this occurs on a weekly basis.

Arcadia mini app launches on the platform, enabling automated concentrated liquidity positions and yield comparison across multiple DEXs.

The $JESSE token launch faces major sniping problems described as unacceptable, with calls for urgent fixes to the platform's launch mechanics that threaten mainstream creator coin adoption.

BETRMINT content coin paired with $BETR token launches on the platform today. Base presented at EFDevcon with a demo at their booth.

$jesse token launches on base app from jesse.base.eth account, with the creator warning users about potential impersonation and scam attempts. Users are being granted access from the platform waitlist.

A world-class designer joins the team to focus on the base app.

Morpho has an exclusive partnership for cbBTC<>USDC loans, which benefits more from Coinbase's onchain push than DEXs like Aero.

Platform improves mini app testing process with new walkthrough guide released for developers building mini apps.

Base App announces new features coming soon to all users including a social feed built with Farcaster.

Cobuild app integrates with the platform, enabling automated USDC-based tipping for social actions including follow, quote, repost, like, and comment, with configurable payout settings and rewards coin selection.

trade_rumour launches as a mini app on the platform for alpha and intelligence sharing.

Engineers work to resolve an ongoing incident causing liquidity errors on swaps that lasted several hours. A new mini app team works on shipping something from a last-minute request.

Wasabi mini app by spicy_aff launches inside the platform, offering trading with up to 3x leverage and automatic onchain yields.

bankrbot agent launches for group chats, enabling users to send money to friends and research/buy coins together within group conversations.

Swaps on the platform are now powered by Zapper API integration.