Based is an experiment. That’s the most honest way to describe it. It started as a playful, permissionless experiment and evolved into an ongoing onchain experiment in interoperability, culture and distribution. The Spark: A Coinbase NFT and an Idea In February 2023, Coinbase announced Base, their Ethereum L2 blockchain. To commemorate this, they released a free mint NFT called “Base Introduced” on Zora. While the NFT was technically free, users still had to pay Ethereum mainnet gas fees whic...

Based is an experiment. That’s the most honest way to describe it. It started as a playful, permissionless experiment and evolved into an ongoing onchain experiment in interoperability, culture and distribution. The Spark: A Coinbase NFT and an Idea In February 2023, Coinbase announced Base, their Ethereum L2 blockchain. To commemorate this, they released a free mint NFT called “Base Introduced” on Zora. While the NFT was technically free, users still had to pay Ethereum mainnet gas fees whic...