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Base has reached Stage 1 Decentralization

TLDR: Base has achieved Stage 1 Decentralization, a critical milestone in our journey to build an open and global onchain economy. We’ve done this by launching permissionless fault proofs and increasing the decentralization of our contract upgrade process with a security council. We believe that decentralization is critical to deliver on our mission of building a global onchain economy and are proud to have achieved this milestone.What decentralization means for BaseBase’s mission is to build...

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Base 2025 Mission, Vision, and Strategy

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Feb 27
Building for the long-term: making Base faster, simpler, and more powerful
TLDR: We’re introducing new building blocks that make it faster, simpler, and more powerful to build on Base: Flashblocks, Smart Wallet Sub Accounts, and Base Appchains — plus a new home base for builders.Base is building for the long-termBase’s mission is to build a global onchain economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom. To further our mission, we need to continue making Base more powerful, easier to use, and faster than ever. We are focused on cultivating an ecosystem of ...
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Feb 24
Expanding Global Access to Crypto with Onboard
TLDR: Coinbase Wallet has integrated Onboard P2P as an onramp option to make buying crypto easier around the world. Onboard lets anyone purchase crypto with local currency through a peer-to-peer exchange, without lengthy verification, and lower fees. Coinbase Wallet and Base are committed to building a global onchain economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom. To achieve this mission, we need to make getting onchain as easy as possible – in every country in the world. However,...
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Feb 4
Evolving Coinbase Wallet to Bring the World Onchain
TLDR: To bring the world onchain, we’re rebuilding the Coinbase Wallet app to be 10x faster and easier to use, plus boosting app discovery by leveraging Farcaster Frames and their onchain social graph. Base app @baseapp Let's talk about the future of Coinbase Wallet. 1,705 11:02 AM • Feb 4, 2025 Last year, we made great progress with Coinbase Wallet by simplifying onboarding and transactions with Smart Wallet, building more options to buy crypto in over 140 countries, and rewarding people who...
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Jan 16
Base 2025 Mission, Vision, and Strategy
TLDR: Base is a global onchain economy and we’re building it together, in the open. This year, we’re focusing on growing the Base economy by investing in five key pillars: builders, apps, ownership, markets, and bringing everyone, everywhere, onchain. We have a plan — but we can only achieve our ambitious goals by building with all of you. As we collaborate and grow, our strategies will continue to evolve to better serve the Base economy.Our missionOur mission is to build a global onchain eco...
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Dec 13
Reflections from Base Around the World
TLDR: Base just wrapped up our first world tour. We traveled to Kenya, India, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines. We met over 1,000 builders, selected 50+ buildathon winners, and hosted 11 events. We’re so excited to keep working alongside our global builder community in 2025. Builders are creating the onchain future, around the world With Base Around the World, we saw firsthand the real-world power of onchain tools in action, and met with incredible builders who are shaping the vision ...
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Oct 30
Fault proofs are now live on Base Mainnet
TL;DR: Fault proofs are now live on Base Mainnet, marking a key milestone on our path to decentralization. With this upgrade, anyone can now participate in securing Base, creating a more trusted and open economy for everyone.Building towards decentralizationFrom the beginning of Base, we have championed the belief that creating an open, global onchain economy is only possible on a decentralized platform. This is why Base is:Built on Ethereum — the most secure and decentralized L1.Built on Opt...
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Oct 29
Introducing free onchain monitoring for Base builders
TL;DR: Base’s decentralization roadmap focuses on transparency and enhancing onchain security. To support this, we’re committed to fostering a secure environment for onchain builders. Today, we’re announcing access to free smart contract monitoring and analytics for every app and protocol on Base, powered by Hexagate. Apply now.Building Base with a security-first approachFrom day one, Base has been built with a security-first approach — combining Coinbase's enterprise-grade practices wit...
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Sep 27
Base Mainnet 09/21/24 Incident Postmortem
Lessons learned from Base’s recent block building outage Base is committed to building in the open, including public retrospectives to share learnings when issues arise. On 09/21/2024 at 15:14 UTC, Base Mainnet experienced a 17 minute block building outage. The integrity of the chain was not affected, all funds on Base were safe, and block production resumed after we mitigated the incident. This retrospective dives into the root cause, the impact, how we mitigated, and what we plan to improve...
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Sep 23
Base is meeting builders around the world
TLDR: Base is for everyone — and this fall, we’re going global by meeting with builders around the world. We’ll start with a series of regional buildathons in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. The buildathons will run from September 27 to October 20, with 100 ETH in total prizes. Then in November, the Base team and Jesse Pollak will meet with builders in person in Nairobi, Bangalore, Bangkok, Singapore, and Manila, and virtually in Buenos Aires. Base’s mission is to increase i...
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Sep 9
Summer never ends
TLDR: This year for Onchain Summer, we invited people around the world to participate and showcased hundreds of onchain builders and creators — resulting in $5M+ in onchain revenue for builders, creators, and projects, 2M+ unique wallets participating in onchain experiences, and 24M+ onchain assets minted. The event highlighted how onchain puts ownership back in the hands of creators — and we're excited to continue spotlighting the projects and people driving an onchain future. Onchain S...
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Sep 4
Scaling Base: Looking towards the upcoming Pectra upgrade
One of Base’s 2024 roadmap initiatives is making onchain accessible and affordable for everyone. We’re focused on delivering fast, low-cost transactions on a secure, decentralized L2 to enable global participation in the onchain economy. We’re showcasing our progress in this new blog series, Scaling Base, where we’ll share updates and our plan as we bring a billion people onchain. In this installment, we’re sharing our approach to increase data availability capacity as we look towards the int...
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Aug 20
Build your onchain identity with Basenames
TLDR: Basenames are the fastest way to start building on Base, making it easier to connect, collaborate, and contribute onchain. Get your Basename at base.org/names As more and more people come onchain, wallet addresses aren't cutting it as a way to connect with each other. These long strings of numbers and text add friction to transactions, make it difficult for builders to spot superfans of their apps, and turn finding the right collaborators into a needle-in-a-haystack hunt. Basenames...