# Base Weekly Round-up

**Published by:** [Base Africa](https://paragraph.com/@baseafrica/)
**Published on:** 2025-01-14
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@baseafrica/base-weekly-round-up-1

## Content

BM Readers, Welcome to the first base weekly roundup for the year 2025. Did you miss us? Well, we are back covering all the important things that happened on base in the past week, so you won't miss anything. Let's jump right in. Burner has been making waves on base since last year, and you might have heard about it or not. Well, look no further. Here is a quick explainer of what Burner is all about. Base @base Got friends who aren’t onchain yet? Here’s a quick explainer of @useburner to get them up to speed: 206 8:25 PM • Jan 5, 2025 AI agents are the rage now and @sweetman_eth shows you how he built a musician-friendly A agent using Base and CoinbaseDev AgentKit watch how you can do that in less than 10 minutes in the video here sweetman @sweetman_eth Just built a musician-friendly AI Agent using @base and @CoinbaseDev AgentKit! Watch how you can go from zero to shipping in less than 10 minutes—and maybe snag part of the $30k grants! Full video here: 432 3:39 PM • Jan 6, 2025 What you built-in 2024 base builds ended with many entries and contributions. To see what was built on base in 2024 by builders you can Check the Base Builds channel on @farcaster_xyz Portrait Launched on Base with a vision for an internet where you own your identity and 1,000+ portraits have been created in 48 hours. Base @base Your online space should feel like home: secure and personal @withportrait just launched on Base after two years of building with a vision for a new internet where you own your identity — and 1,000+ portraits have been created in 48 hours Bring your website onchain 297 6:48 PM • Jan 6, 2025 Base Year 2024 is live you can now see and mint a visualized summary of your year on Base in 2024 check out how to do that here Based Year @BasedYear Based Year 2024 is LIVE! Your 2024 on @base, visualized and minted as a one-of-a-kind NFT. Ready to see your year as art? Let's dive in. 254 12:45 PM • Jan 3, 2025 Balancer is coming to Base in Q1 of 2025 Here is all you need to know Balancer @Balancer 1/ Coming Q1 2025: Balancer v3 on @base will feature the Priority Fee Router - a new mechanism that redistributes MEV rewards to liquidity providers. medium.com/@mikeisballin/… 152 6:00 PM • Jan 7, 2025 Here is the latest round of drops from the Blueprint Cohort where Blueprint and creators are working with creator to create videos, podcasts, music, and digital art Base @base The Blueprint Cohort from @bpdotfun is working with creators making short-form video, podcasts, digital art, and music. Here's their latest round of drops: How to Make a Beat: Random People - @devan_ibiza zora.co/collect/base:0… zora.co How to Make a Beat: Random People Wanted to try something different. So I went to the mall looking for some new inspiration. 119 11:20 PM • Jan 10, 2025 Base @base The Blueprint Cohort from @bpdotfun is working with creators making short-form video, podcasts, digital art, and music. Here's their latest round of drops: @nounish Viral Hits: Taco & Mountain zora.co/collect/base:0… 189 2:32 AM • Jan 8, 2025 Roam an onchain browser and search engine is joining Coinbase and Base to help accelerate bringing the world onchain read more about it here Xen Baynham-Herd @XenBH Roam is Joining Coinbase! We are happy to announce that the team at @roam_xyz, The Onchain Browser & Search Engine, will be starting a new journey with @coinbase and @base. The cofounders of Roam (myself, @selfishfish_eth and @__jagra) are joining Coinbase to help accelerate… 429 6:53 PM • Jan 7, 2025 Jesse Pollack went bald for Base in honor of crossing $10B TVL and his commitment to the Base God community. Watch the replay of the live stream herehttps://x.com/jessepollak/status/1877108914350682574 Astra unveiled the Astra Bridge enabling Lightning Network for Base. Users can now bridge, pay, and off-ramp tokens on Base to the Lightning Network via this bridgehttps://x.com/Astralabs_LN/status/1876492969605480612 Cow AMM is now Live on Base read more on that here CoW DAO | Don't get milked ™️ @CoWSwap Big news, fam – CoW AMM is now live on @Base. Starting today, Base(d) LPs can earn more from their liquidity by capturing arbitrage MEV and protecting themselves from LVR. Interested? Click here to deposit or create a new pool balancer.fi/pools/cow?netw… And read on... 200 2:00 PM • Jan 9, 2025 The Holocene upgrade is Live on Base Mainnet Base @base The Holocene upgrade is live on Base Mainnet This lets us improve the Fault Proof System and configure our gas target more easily Another step towards scaling Base and building a global onchain economy 394 8:45 PM • Jan 9, 2025 On January 10th the base team responding to a challenge from @meophasaurus rocked their favorite Base NFTs as their PFPs. It was a based day. Base @base based pfps are based meowphasaurus @meowphasaurus January 10th, for one day only, I am asking the @base team to PFP their favorite @base NFT Doesn’t matter which collection, as long as it’s @base! 552 6:18 PM • Jan 10, 2025 Onchain Daily Recap for the weekOnchain Daily Recap | Week of 01-06-2025New year, new internet. As 2025 kicks off, Base is alive with fresh ideas, projects, and moments that remind us why building onchain matters...https://paragraph.xyz 2025 is the year of the Builders here is a call to action for all Based Builders from Jesse Pollack jesse.base.eth @jessepollak A call to action for Based Builders: 2025 IS OUR YEAR 702 9:38 PM • Jan 12, 2025 That's a wrap on this week's base weekly round-up I will catch you in the next one Stay Based!!

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