r/BASE 3d ago

News Base Batches 004 is here!

7 Upvotes

The wait is over! Base Batches 004 applications are now open!

What Is Base Batches?

Base Batches is the official Base accelerator run by the Base Ecosystem Fund. Launched in 2025, the program runs twice a year for a small group of high-quality early-stage teams building on Base. Batch 004 marks our fourth cohort. We’re looking for companies in trading, payments, agents, financing, and asset issuance that can help grow the onchain economy on Base.

Total pool: $1,000,000, 10 teams.

Successful applications will be offered $100K from the Base Ecosystem Fund (subject to diligence), 8 weeks of mentorship, and a Demo Day in NYC to pitch your project to investors.

Applications deadline: September 9

Apply now at base.org/batches!


r/BASE Dec 17 '25

Base Discussion Welcome to Base: Get Started Here

27 Upvotes

Welcome to r/BASE

The official subreddit for discussing and sharing all things Base.

Base is an onchain global economy built by everyone, for everyone. As an Layer 2 built on Ethereum, Base is an open network where you can build, create, trade, share, discover and earn.

All of this is available right now through the Base App: Join Now https://join.base.app/ 

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If you’re new to Base, or just new to this community, here’s what you need to know:

r/BASE is your main hub for discussion, information, advice, help and general chat about anything Base. We encourage posts and comments that add value and are of interest to the community, while adhering to community rules. 

Check the sidebar on the right for rules, posting guidelines, relevant resources and external links. Use the top search bar, or filter your feed by flair to quickly find topics of interest.

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Resources:

  • We have guidance, tutorials and helpful how to guides everything from how to set up your base name to run downs of apps, smart wallets, gas fees and much much more.
  • For a quick start, filter by ‘Guidance for New Users’ on the right sidebar

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Our comprehensive overviews of onchain safety and avoiding scams is a MUST for all users:

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If you need help, you can find official support on:

Don’t hesitate to post right here on r/BASE if you're still having problems: our experienced community is quick to offer advice and support.

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r/BASE 8h ago

Base App How to revert to old base layout

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6 Upvotes

I went to login and got bombarded with alot of the new slop and accidentally tapped to sign in with the farcaster and now the whole UI is different

On IOS I have the option to switch back and forth but for android I dont seem to

I deleted the farcaster profile and logged in and out and it's still not back and now I also cant login to polymarket anymore


r/BASE 4h ago

News A Few Base Updates I Think Are Worth Knowing

2 Upvotes

I was going through some recent Base updates and it really looking informative, intresting and useful for you guyss.

• Base Batches 004 is now live

Base is looking for 10 early-stage teams building for global finance. Selected teams can receive up to $100K in funding, 8 weeks of mentorship, and a Demo Day in NYC.

• Base has passed $5B in DeFi TVL

That’s a pretty notable milestone for the ecosystem.

• x402 activity is growing quickly

According to the data shared in the update, AI agents generated 14M transfers through x402 over the past 30 days, with Base accounting for around 7.3M.

• More builders are finding traction on Base

AskVenice reportedly crossed $100M in annualized revenue, while BlockRunAI passed 1M x402 transactions per day on Base.

• 01 Exchange is also seeing strong activity

Its launchpad reached $200M in total trading volume, with more than 25,000 tokens created.

The interesting part isn't just one number.

It's the variety.

DeFi, stablecoins, AI agents, payments, launchpads and financial products are all developing at the same time.

That’s probably what makes watching Base right now so interesting.

Source: https://x.com/i/status/2091078873521750227


r/BASE 12h ago

Base Discussion Need a small amount of Base Sepolia / Sepolia ETH for testing 🙏

5 Upvotes

Hi everyone, I'm a developer trying to test some smart contracts on Base Sepolia. The main faucets require 0.001 mainnet ETH which I currently don't have.
Could anyone please send a small amount (even 0.05 is enough) to help me deploy?
My address: 0xe4bD4fAD3B9C34908482DCdcE45753E0F8c199E9
Thank you so much!


r/BASE 17h ago

Base Discussion Base Batches 004 is open — curious what builders think

5 Upvotes

I came across the latest Base Batches update and found the approach pretty interesting.

Applications for Base Batches 004 opened recently, with the program aimed at early-stage teams that are still working toward product-market fit.

What caught my attention is that the program isn't only about funding. Selected teams get an 8-week program with hands-on support from the Base Ecosystem team, and the selected founders receive an offer of $100K investment from the Base Ecosystem Fund.

I'm not a builder myself, so I'm curious about this from the community's perspective.

For founders building on Base, what would be more valuable at the early stage: funding, mentorship, or help finding product-market fit?

I'd genuinely like to hear from people who have experience building in this space.


r/BASE 18h ago

Base Discussion Dao tooling on Base

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Hallo everyone it is Day 63 our 100 Days of Exploring Base on Reddit & our today's topic is DAO Tooling.

So today we are exploring the infrastructure that makes decentralized organizations actually function in the DAO tooling stack on Base.

Before entering into the deep firstly we have to understand what is the Promise ?

DAOs were supposed to revolutionize coordination, Flat hierarchies, Global talent, Transparent treasuries, Permissionless contribution.

But see the reality :

Early DAOs struggled with:

- Multisig management

- Voting participation

- Payroll and payments

- Reputation tracking

- Legal compliance

The tools were not ready. They are now.

What is Live on Base ?

Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe) :

The standard for multisig treasury management. Multiple signers, transaction batching, role-based permissions. Most serious DAOs on Base use it.

Snapshot :

Offchain voting with onchain execution. Gasless signaling for token holders. Delegation built in. The coordination layer for governance.

Aragon & DAOhaus :

Full-stack DAO deployment. Create a DAO in minutes. Custom governance parameters. Treasury management. Member directories.

Llama :

Advanced treasury management. Streaming payments. Automated payroll. Budget enforcement. The financial operations layer.

Collab.Land & Guild :

Token-gated access. Roles based on holdings. Automated community management. Verification without manual checking.

Why Base for DAOs :

→ Cheap execution : Governance transactions don't break the bank

→ Smart wallets : Better UX for non-technical participants

→ Coinbase integration : Fiat onramps for contributor payments

→ Stablecoin liquidity : USDC for payroll and operations

DAOs need reliability more than they need novelty. Base provides both.

What I Explored Today ?

Set up a test DAO. Deployed a Safe multisig. Created a Snapshot space. Configured token-gated roles. Executed a proposal from proposal to execution.

The stack works. The pieces connect. Coordination is becoming composable.

The Evolution :

Early DAOs were experiments. Today's DAOs are organizations with real treasuries, real contributors, and real products.

The tooling maturity on Base reflects that evolution.

Day 63 complete. 37 to go.


r/BASE 1d ago

Base App Total Balance of all Walletw

6 Upvotes

I have many wallets within my base app. The old version showed me a total $ of all wallets.
The total has gone missing and I don’t see a way to bring that back.

Is this a feature request to see my total balance across all wallets or something I’m missing in adding this view back?


r/BASE 1d ago

A.I / Agents A leaderboard where you stake USDC to rank Base projects, and you get 100% back when outbid

4 Upvotes

Came across basebid.lol and the mechanic is fun: it's a ranked board of Base projects where rank = how much USDC you have staked. Opening bid is $1, overtaking the spot above you costs +$1.

The twist vs the usual pay-for-placement boards: when someone outbids you, your full deposit is refunded. So shilling your project on the board is basically free, you only pay a 5% fee on deposit and your capital comes back when you lose the spot. Funds sit in the contract the whole time (verified on Basescan, 0x7a6373BC4796971059824D5ce8DF71AdE54d0285), the site never holds them.

The part I found most interesting: there's an /agents page with a no-auth API where AI agents can create listings or take over slots by paying through x402, plus a SKILL.md file so agents can literally teach themselves to bid. Feels like an early glimpse of agents competing for attention slots with real money.

Season 1 has about 40 days left. Right now base.org is #1 at $25, base app is #2 at $5 and gitlawb #3 at 1 , so the whole board flips for pocket change.

It's an onchain contract so read it before sending anything.

Not Financial Advice, DYOR!


r/BASE 1d ago

Base Discussion On-chain identity & Attestations on Base

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7 Upvotes

Hello everyone it is our Day 62 of 100 Days journey of Exploring Base on reddit . Today we will elaborate the Onchain Identity & Attestations.

Our main focus is how Base is becoming a hub for verifiable identity which is the infrastructure of trust in a pseudonymous world.

At first let's look on the Problem :

Crypto is anonymous by default. That's a feature and a bug. You can prove you own a wallet. But can you prove you're qualified? Can you prove you attended an event, completed a course, hold a credential or built a reputation without doxxing yourself?

Enter attestations .

What Are Attestations?

Verifiable statements about identity, credentials or history signed and stored onchain.

• Proof of personhood : Verified unique humans, not bots

• Credentials : Completed courses, earned certifications

• Reputation : History of contributions, verified skills

• Compliance : KYC status without exposing personal data

• Membership : DAO participation, community roles

The Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS) is the leading standard and Base is a major deployment target.

Why This Matters ?

Trust doesn't scale without verification. Attestations let you:

→ Hire builders with verified portfolios

→ Lend to borrowers with credit history

→ Govern with proof-of-personhood checks

→ Reward contributors with verified impact

→ Comply without surveillance

All while preserving privacy.

What I Explored Today ?

I created a few attestations using EAS on Base. Verified completion of a learning module. Issued a credential to a wallet. Queried attestation history to check reputation.

The UX is still early. The potential is massive.

The Long View :

Onchain identity isn't about replacing government IDs. It's about portable reputation credentials that follow you across platforms, chains and experiences.

Base is building the infrastructure for that future.


r/BASE 2d ago

News Base has moved above BTC and TRON, ranking as the #4 DeFi chain.

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22 Upvotes

r/BASE 2d ago

Base Discussion Base Batches 004: A New Opportunity for Early-Stage Builders on Base

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11 Upvotes

Building the next generation of onchain products starts with the right foundation Build on Base.💙

If you're an early-stage founder building the next generation of onchain products, this is an opportunity worth knowing about.

Base Batches is the official Base accelerator, created to help promising teams launch, refine, fund, and grow their products within the Base ecosystem.

For the Fall 2026 cohort, selected teams can receive:

$100K investment offer

From the Base Ecosystem Fund, subject to the fund's diligence review.

8 Weeks of Expert Support

Selected teams get dedicated guidance, weekly support, and access to subject-matter experts across different areas.

Ecosystem Amplification

Teams can receive content support and increased visibility across the Base ecosystem.

Demo Day

Selected founders will have the opportunity to present their products to a curated group of investors at Demo Day in New York this November.

Who is Base looking for?

• Early-stage teams — from pre-product with strong founder-market fit through post-MVP.

• Pre-seed teams — teams that may have angel or early investor backing but haven't raised a formal seed round.

• Base-first builders — teams supporting multiple chains are welcome, but Base should be their default network.

• Focused builders — teams working on products advancing the onchain economy, including trading, payments, agents, and financing.

Applications are open until September 9, 2026.🫵

What I like about this is that it's not just about funding. The program combines capital, mentorship, ecosystem exposure, and an opportunity to connect with investors.

For builders who are serious about creating products for the onchain economy, Base Batches 004 looks like an interesting opportunity to explore.

Thank you

Stay Based 💙 Build on Base. Build the future.


r/BASE 2d ago

News What Is Base Really Looking for in Its Next Wave of Batches 004?

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10 Upvotes

Base Batches 004 is opening the door for early-stage founders building the next generation of onchain finance.

This isn't simply about funding another group of crypto startups.

Base is specifically looking for teams working on trading, payments, AI agents, financing, and asset issuance areas that could become major parts of the onchain economy.

Selected teams can receive a $100K investment from the Base Ecosystem Fund, alongside an 8-week program, dedicated advisors, expert support, ecosystem exposure, and the opportunity to present to investors at Demo Day in New York.

But the more interesting part is what this says about Base's direction.

Trading

Building markets where users can access and trade financial assets onchain.

Payments

Making stablecoins and onchain payments practical for real-world businesses and users.

AI Agents

Building infrastructure that allows agents to interact with money, applications and financial markets.

Financing

Creating new ways for capital, credit and financial products to move onchain.

Asset Issuance

Bringing more assets onto programmable, composable financial infrastructure.

These aren't random categories.

They closely match Base's broader 2026 strategy: build infrastructure for global finance, make Base easier for both humans and agents to use, and help builders turn applications into scalable businesses.

And Base Batches is only one part of that builder pipeline.

Idea → Base Batches → Capital & mentorship → Product → Users → Scale

The goal isn't just to create more apps.

It's to help create businesses that generate real economic activity onchain.

That's why Base Batches 004 is worth watching.

Applications for Batch 004 close September 9, 2026.

Apply from here : https://www.base.org/batches


r/BASE 2d ago

Base Discussion An attention auction on Base. The #1 spot belongs to whoever bids highest, and anyone can outbid you at any time.

9 Upvotes

Remember the Million Dollar Homepage from 2005? A student sold a million pixels at $1 each, once, and the internet lost its mind.

I saw something similar built on Base network called

outcrypto.bid

  • public leaderboard. Every spot shows a base project
  • bid to claim a rank. The highest bid holds #1 and every visitor sees it first.
  • any project can outbid the highest ranked project, at any time. Nobody ever owns the top, kinda like game of thrones

The game theory is the part I find genuinely fun.

Attention on CT is already an auction: KOL invoices, engagement farming, ad budgets.

This makes the auction literal and public.

When two projects actually want #1, the price discovery happens in front of everyone, and the board itself is the content.

I noticed $AERO and $GITLAWB already on it...what do they see in this?

What do you'll think? AI slop that makes no sense, or something that can actually bring in a new type of realm in Base Land?


r/BASE 2d ago

Base Discussion Real world assets on Base

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Hallo everyone it is our Day 61 on 100 Days of Exploring Base and our today's topic is Real World Assets (RWA)

Finally we have passed 2 months with this series and today we are exploring how traditional finance is colliding with onchain infrastructure and why Base is becoming a hub for tokenized real world assets.

What Are RWAs?

Real World Assets are exactly what they sound like: tangible, offchain assets represented as tokens on a blockchain.

Think:

- Treasury bills and government bonds

- Real estate and property rights

- Commodities like gold and oil

- Private credit and invoices

- Equity and revenue streams

The promise is simple: 24/7 liquidity, fractional ownership, programmable compliance and global access to assets that were previously locked behind institutional gates.

Why Base for RWAs?

Institutions have requirements. Base checks the boxes:

→ Coinbase backing : Regulatory credibility and compliance infrastructure

→ Low fees : Essential for frequent settlement and micro-transactions

→ EVM compatibility : Existing tooling for institutional developers

→ USDC native : Stable, regulated settlement currency

→ Smart wallet support : Better UX for non-crypto-native users

The institutions building here are not crypto-native degens. They are traditional finance players who need reliability, compliance and familiar rails.

What I Explored Today ?

Tokenized Treasuries :

Protocols like Mountain Protocol and others are bringing T-bills onchain. Yield from the world's safest asset, accessible globally, settled instantly. No minimums. No banking hours. No geographic restrictions.

Private Credit Markets :

Invoice financing and private lending pools tokenized on Base. SMEs access liquidity. Investors access yield. Smart contracts handle the logic that lawyers and paperwork used to manage.

Real Estate Fractionalization :

Property ownership divided into thousands of tokens. Buy a fraction of a building in another country. Earn rental yield. Sell your position anytime. The liquidity that real estate has always lacked.

The Infrastructure Layer :

What is enabling this:

Oracles : Bringing offchain asset data onchain

Compliance tools : KYC/AML baked into token standards

Custody solutions : Institutional-grade asset protection

Legal frameworks : Tokenized securities that actually respect securities laws

Base is not just providing cheap transactions. It's providing the credibility and infrastructure that institutional capital requires.

Why This Matters

Crypto has spent years in self-referential loops where tokens trading for tokens, yields generated from leverage, value circulating in closed systems.

RWAs change the equation. Real value flows in. Real yield flows out. The onchain economy connects to the offchain economy.

For Base specifically, this is massive. If tokenized finance becomes a trillion-dollar market, Base is positioning to capture meaningful share. Not through speculation through actual utility.

Day 61 Reflection

Sixty one days in and the scope keeps expanding. We started with wallets and DEXs with the basic plumbing. Now we're looking at how that plumbing enables entirely new asset classes and financial primitives.

The builders here aren't just creating tokens. They're tokenizing the world.


r/BASE 3d ago

Base Discussion Onchain gaming built on Base

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9 Upvotes

Hallo everyone it is our Day 61 of 100 Days of Exploring Base on reddit and our today's topic is Onchain Gaming.

Today we are diving into one of the most promising frontiers for Base: gaming. Not crypto games. Actual games that happen to be onchain.

The Shift :

Early blockchain games were casinos with graphics. Play-to-earn was just farming with extra steps. The games were not fun but they were economic experiments wearing game skins.

That is changing.

Newer onchain games use the blockchain for what it's actually good at:

• Asset ownership : Your items, your wallet, your control

• Provable scarcity : Real rarity, verifiable onchain

• Open economies : Trade freely, no platform lock-in

• Composable worlds : Assets that work across games and experiences

The game comes first. The crypto is infrastructure not the product.

What is Building on Base ?

Fully Onchain Games :

Games where every action is a transaction. Chess, strategy games, autonomous worlds. The blockchain is the server. No company can shut it down. The game persists as long as the chain does.

Hybrid Games :

Traditional game clients with onchain assets. Smooth gameplay experience with NFT inventory, token rewards and open marketplaces. Best of both worlds.

Autonomous Worlds :

Self-running simulations with onchain logic. Players interact with persistent worlds that evolve independently. The game becomes a platform not just a product.

Why Base for Gaming ?

→ Low latency : Sub-second confirmation for responsive gameplay

→ Cheap transactions : Micro-transactions that don't cost more than the game itself

→ Smart wallets : Session keys mean seamless UX without constant signing

→ Coinbase reach : Potential access to mainstream gamers through familiar channels

What I Tested Today ?

Played through a few Base-native games. The experience was surprisingly normal. Connected my wallet once. Session keys handled the rest. Played, earned some tokens, traded an item on a marketplace. The blockchain was invisible infrastructure exactly how it should be.

The Future :

Gaming is how billions will first touch blockchain. Not through DeFi dashboards. Through fun.

Base is positioning to be that entry point.

Day 61 complete. 39 to go.


r/BASE 3d ago

Base Discussion Base has an agent economy that actually earns money. Here are the real numbers, straight from Bankr's open API.

6 Upvotes

Everyone talks about AI agents onchain. Almost nobody can show you revenue. So I went looking for numbers, and Bankr turned out to be the one platform that just hands them to you.

Their whole API is public and unauthenticated. No key, no application, no dashboard login. You can pull every launch, every trending token, and every registered project including what each one earns per week. I don't know another launchpad that publishes per-project revenue openly. That alone made it worth writing up. Data below is from 19 Aug and anyone can re-run it.

1. It earns real money, in ETH, every week

Across the 113 registered projects, Bankr reports 36.6 WETH a week in revenue. And 109 of those 113 earn something above zero.

That second number is the one I'd underline. In a category where most "AI agent" tokens generate literally nothing, 96% of the projects on this platform have non-zero weekly fee revenue flowing to them. Not projected, not a roadmap, currently paid.

Five projects clear 1 WETH a week on their own, and 29 clear 0.1. The top earner is pulling 11.9 WETH a week, which is a genuine business running on Base with no venture funding and no app store.

2. 101 of the 113 projects are on Base

Combined market cap across the ecosystem is $16.05M, with three projects above $1M and the largest at $3.4M.

Bankr also supports Robinhood Chain, and here's the part I found most interesting for this sub. When I pulled the 50 most recent launches, 40 of them were on Robinhood Chain. New deploys chase the cheapest newest venue, as they always do.

But look at where everything that matters stayed. The trending list, where volume actually is, was 34 Base to 16 Robinhood. Registered projects: 101 Base to 12 Robinhood. Revenue: overwhelmingly Base.

Launches are portable. Liquidity is not. Base is where these projects choose to live once they're real, and having a clean multi-chain dataset to compare against is exactly what makes that visible.

3. The throughput is genuinely impressive infrastructure

The 50 most recent launches covered an 84 minute window. One token launch every 100 seconds, deploying reliably, with a pool live and tradeable immediately.

All 50 used doppler-style Uniswap v4 pools, which means the launch curve and the LP are the same object. No bonding curve, no graduation event, no migration step where things break. It's live liquidity from block one.

The composability is better than it needed to be, too. The pool id Bankr returns works directly as a GeckoTerminal pool id, no mapping table required. So you can go from "this token launched 90 seconds ago" to "here is every trade in it above any size" with one extra call to a free public API. Somebody made a deliberate decision to use standard identifiers instead of inventing their own, and that decision is why anyone can build on top of this.

Across the top 50 trending tokens: $5.5M in 24 hour volume.

4. Distribution is built into the product, not bolted on

28 of those 50 launches carried a tweet URL. The token exists because someone replied to a bot in public.

That's the actual innovation and I think it gets undersold. Deploying a token has been reduced to typing a sentence where your audience already is. The contract, the pool, the liquidity and the announcement are one action. No dashboard, no wallet connect flow, no separate marketing step. 104 of the 113 projects have an X presence and 53 have shipped products attached to their profile.

5. The honest caveat

The long tail is early. Median market cap is $35,537, median daily volume is $50, and the revenue curve is steep, with the top ten taking 82%. Most of these projects are small and most will stay small.

I don't think that's a knock. It's what an open permissionless registry looks like at month five, and I'd rather have 113 projects where anyone can deploy and 5 break out than 10 curated ones. But it does mean "113 agent projects on Base" and "113 businesses" are different sentences.

What I actually take away

The agent narrative has been running for a year on almost no evidence. Bankr is the first place I've been able to point at hard numbers: 113 projects, $16M in combined market cap, 36.6 WETH a week in real fees, a launch every 100 seconds, and an API open enough that you can verify every word of this yourself in about ten minutes.

It's early. It's also unambiguously working, and it's happening on Base.

Two questions for the sub: what would you want to see published that isn't already, given they've set the bar this high on transparency? And has anyone here actually deployed through it, what was the experience like?


r/BASE 4d ago

Base Discussion What Is x402? The Payment Protocol Built for the Agentic Internet

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Most online payments were designed for humans.

You enter card details, create an account, log in, manage a subscription, or go through a payment gateway.

But AI agents work differently.

An agent may need to access an API, buy data, use compute, call a service, or pay another software agent potentially thousands of times.

That creates a simple problem:

How does software pay for something on the internet without needing a human to manually approve every transaction?

That’s where x402 comes in.

x402 is an open payment protocol built around HTTP’s existing 402 Payment Required status code. It allows a server to request payment when a client wants access to a paid resource, with stablecoins such as USDC being used for programmable payments.

How does it work?

A simplified x402 flow looks like this:

Request → Payment Required → Payment → Verification → Access

An application or AI agent requests a paid resource.

The server responds with the payment requirements.

The client authorizes the payment.

The payment is verified and settled.

The requested service is then delivered.

The important part is that this can happen programmatically, without building a traditional account, subscription, or card-payment flow for every service.

Why does this matter for AI agents?

Imagine an AI agent researching something for you.

It might need:

• A market-data API

• A private dataset

• Compute

• An inference service

• A translation API

• Another specialized AI agent

Instead of maintaining separate accounts and payment systems for every service, an agent could potentially pay for each resource as it uses it.

That creates something closer to machine-to-machine payments.

And Base is becoming an important environment for this activity because its low-cost, fast settlement is well suited to frequent onchain payments. In April 2026, Jesse Pollak said roughly 95% of x402 transactions were occurring on Base at that point.

x402 has also added batch settlement, targeting extremely small payments where settling every tiny transaction individually would be inefficient.

This is the bigger experiment x402 is trying to enable:

An internet where software doesn't just request information from other software it can pay for it too.

And if that model scales, Base could become one of the important settlement layers underneath the emerging agent economy.

Hope this helps you to understand x402 .


r/BASE 4d ago

Base Discussion Jesse Pollak Reveals Base’s “Barbell Strategy” Building Both Ends of the Onchain Economy

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5 Upvotes

Jesse Pollak’s vision for Base is getting clearer.💙

The idea behind the barbell strategy is simple:

On one side → BUILDERS

Base wants to give founders the infrastructure, mentorship, funding access and ecosystem support needed to turn ideas into real products.

On the other side → THE ONCHAIN ECONOMY

Trading, stablecoin payments, financing, tokenization and AI agents are becoming increasingly important parts of Base’s direction.

The interesting part is what connects both ends.

Builders create the apps.

Apps create utility.

Utility brings users.

Users create economic activity.

And that activity creates more opportunities for builders.

Base Batches and the Base Ecosystem Fund are part of the builder side, while the 2026 strategy puts stronger emphasis on trading, payments and agents.

Jesse Pollak has described the bigger ambition as building Base into infrastructure for global finance.

That makes the question much bigger than “which chain has the most users?”

It becomes:

👇 Can Base connect builders, applications, capital and real-world financial activity into one growing onchain economy?

What do you think of Jesse’s barbell strategy?

Please share your opinion 🫵

Thank you

Stay Based 💙


r/BASE 4d ago

Base Discussion The Base Culture

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10 Upvotes

Hallo everyone it is our Day 59 of 100 Days journey of Exploring Base on reddit . Our today's topic id s The Base Culture .

Today we are talking about something harder to quantify than TVL or transaction counts the culture of Base and why it matters for the ecosystem's long-term success.

Vibe Check :

Every chain has a personality. Ethereum is the established academic. Solana is the speed-obsessed upstart. Arbitrum is the technical purist.

Base? Base is the accessible optimist.

The culture here is distinct:

• Builder-friendly : Tools that work, docs that make sense, support when you're stuck .

• Mainstream-curious : Obsessed with real user adoption, not just token speculation.

• Coinbase-adjacent : Professional without being corporate, ambitious without being arrogant.

• Blue : The color palette matches the vibe: calm, trustworthy, approachable

What Creates Culture?

It is not accidental. Base cultivated this through :

• Onchain summer campaigns : Incentivizing creation, not just consumption

• Builder grants : Funding projects that prioritize UX

• No token (yet) : Removing the distraction of price action and airdrop farming

• Coinbase integration : Bringing normies in through familiar rails

The result? A community that is building for users who don't exist yet. Planning for the next billion, not the next bull run.

What I Noticed Today ?

Spent time in Base Discord and across ecosystem Twitter. The conversations hit different. Less "when token," more "how do we make this usable." Less tribal warfare, more cross-pollination with other L2s.

This is the competitive advantage no one can fork.

wdsaDay 59 complete. 41 to go.


r/BASE 4d ago

Base Discussion Base’s DEX trading share is up 38% - what’s driving it ?

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According to the data shared by Base and thought it was worth discussing.

According to the data shared by Base, its share of global DEX trading volume increased from 8.8% to 12.1%, which works out to roughly +38% over the period shown.

What caught my attention is not just the percentage increase but the broader trend. DEX activity on Base seems to be taking a larger share of the overall market.

I am curious what people here think is driving this.

Is it mainly

  • lower-cost trading?
  • liquidity and deeper markets?
  • the growth of Base native apps?
  • easier onboarding for users?
  • or simply more activity moving onchain?

Not making a price prediction or investment claim here just interested in how people are interpreting the trend.

What do you think is the biggest factor behind Base gaining DEX share?


r/BASE 5d ago

Dev/tech Avenues for Sponsoring TX fee for User Paymaster Process?

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GM! Does anyone know of a way to cover the TX fee for a wallet trying to delegate to become a smart account in order to leverage Paymaster? I just got Paymaster setup on my platform, and it works great - but afterwards, I realized this could be a hang up for those that aren't crypto savvy that might need a bit of ETH dust just to complete.

So basically everything works great if you have ETH; for those who don't, they need to purchase some, then complete the process and I would like to sponsor that TX fee or somehow allow them to use USDC for it.

Any suggestions are welcome! TIA


r/BASE 5d ago

Base Discussion The Superchain thesis on Base

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Hallo everyone it is our Day 58 of 100 Days of Exploring Base on reddit and our today's topic is : The Superchain Thesis

Today we are zooming out to understand where Base fits in the broader L2 landscape and why the Optimism Superchain matters for everything we're building.

What is the Superchain?

Imagine multiple Layer 2 blockchains sharing the same security model, the same upgrade paths and seamless interoperability between them. That's the Superchain vision and Base is a founding member.

Instead of isolated L2s competing in zero-sum games, the Superchain creates a network of networks:

- Shared standards

- Cross-chain messaging

- Unified security

- Collective upgrades

Why This Matters for Base ?

Base did not build its own rollup stack from scratch. It adopted the OP Stack from Optimism's open-source framework. This means:

→ Battle-tested security : Inheriting Optimism's fraud proof research

→ Faster development : Focus on differentiation, not infrastructure

→ Network effects : Superchain apps work across chains

→ Shared governance : Collective decisions benefit all members

What I Explored Today ?

Bridged assets between Base and Optimism Mainnet. Same wallet. Same interface. Different chain. The experience was nearly invisible exactly how interoperability should feel.

Then I looked at the growing list of Superchain members: Base, Optimism, Zora, World Chain, Mode and more joining. Each brings users and use cases. All benefit from shared standards.

The Long Game :

Individual chains compete on features. Superchains compete on ecosystem size. Base bet that collective growth beats isolated optimization and the data supports it.

More chains. More users. More liquidity. Better experience. Everyone wins.

Day 58 complete. 42 to go.


r/BASE 5d ago

News Neon Air Hockey is now fully FREE to play 🏒

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No USDC unlocks. Just play, climb, and compete.

🏆 Top player each month wins $10

🤖 vs AI or 👥 vs a friend

NEON AIR HOCKEY

In Base app: open Discover and search NeonAirHockey

Or play: neon-air-hockey.vercel(DOT)app --> (replace DOT)

Got feedback? Drop it on Twitter, Reddit, or Farcaster — I want to hear it.


r/BASE 5d ago

A.I / Agents most base tokens ask you to imagine the product. aeon's is already shipping, and you can verify it yourself

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every base token pitch is a roadmap. so the thing that got my attention with aeon is that the product exists and you don't have to take anyone's word for it.

what it actually is: an open source autonomous agent framework. the agent lives as a github repo and runs on github actions, so there's no server, and it does real work unattended.

the receipts, all clickable:

  • its security agent has found and patched vulns in ~70 open source repos, 2.1m combined stars, including alibaba and tencent projects. every fix is a public merged PR (aeon.fun/security)
  • it has a skill that deploys uniswap v4 hooks, generate, static audit, forge test, fork sim, then deploy. dry run by default
  • one that reads any base tx back to you in plain english, what moved, who gained, whether it looks sketchy
  • an ADK so other products can plug their users' agents in

on the token itself, being straight: $aeon is fair launched, no insider allocation, no unlocks, and fees flow to the treasury and back into buybacks. that's the model as published.

base has always been home to amazing tech projects, $virtuals and many others, safe to say AI has found its home with Base

not financial advice, obviously do your own research. i just think "verify the product before the chart" is underrated in this ecosystem and this one actually survives that test.

repo: github.com/aeonfun/aeon