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...