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Welcome to the third edition of the Base Weekly Roundup—your go-to newsletter designed to keep you informed about everything happening in the Base ecosystem. Each week, we'll cover essential developments, key project updates, community highlights, and important news you need to know to stay ahead in this fast-paced crypto environment.
Our goal is simple: provide you with clear, concise insights and actionable information to empower your understanding and engagement with Base. (Please note our ecosystem updates are presented by project, listed alphabetically.) If you wish to be featured in next week's edition, please fill out this form. Feel free to DM our twitter account.
The Base dev team publishes a blog post outlining plans for scaling.
Only one week remains to apply for the MVP Hackathon hosted by AllianceDAO. Applicants will compete for $500K in funding and a spot in the next Alliance accelerator cohort.
A new track for Base Batches 001 is now supported by Uniswap.
Mini apps are coming to Coinbase Wallet, and Base is hosting a workshop to support this integration.
The Base team shares the Base Launch Playbook for apps and tokens.
The Base team is hosting a Farcon meetup in Brooklyn on May 2nd.
Avantis surpasses $1 billion in trading volume just one week into its public beta. Daily active addresses for AvantisFi reach an all-time high.
For the past four epochs, Aerodrome has experienced a reduction in circulating supply, as the amount of tokens locking has exceeded emissions. The "Base is for Everyone" token, introduced by the Base team last week, now has a liquidity pool on Aerodrome, and rewards have been allocated.
Binance US now supports Base, enabling transfers of ETH and USDC via Base, with more assets coming soon.
BSX introduces a yield-bearing stablecoin in collaboration with Morpho.
Clanker founder publishes a thread detailing the v3.1 updates. Also it receives a coinbase listing.
Definitive is now available on mobile, allowing users to access advanced order types across EVM chains and Solana from anywhere.
Dungeons of Fortune, a medieval fighting game, debuts on PC and mobile.
Enzyme Blue, a vault-as-a-service provider, is now live on Base.
Farcade surpasses half a million users and drops a large studio update.
Farcon 2025 takes place from May 1st to May 4th in New York City.
Farguesser is a Farcaster geography mini-game similar to GeoGuessr, where players view a single image for 30 seconds and attempt to guess its location on a world map.
Fitclub is a Farcaster mini-app that tracks steps on-chain with friends and enables users to earn rewards.
FWB launches the FWBuilders program to incubate builders working on cultural applications of emerging technology. They're currently seeking participants for their alpha cohort.
InfiniGods, a mobile gaming studio focused on Web3 games, gives an interview with the B3 team.
Levitate Labs is hosting a Dubai Base Builders Meetup at Token 2049.
Mantis, a DeFai app, integrates with Base, allowing users to trade on Aerodrome.
Megapot is hiring protocol and frontend engineers.
Moonray, a sci-fi PvP fighting game available on the Epic Games Store, announces its TGE on Base.
Nook, a DeFi savings dApp, releases a new version of its app.
OscillatorInc introduces Memory Protocol, a protocol that captures complete user identities across various dApps. It understands your music preferences and social connections from different platforms, enabling the creation of intricate social graphs.
Politiswap, a political trading app, creates on-chain tokens for each member of Congress. Combining elements of Polymarket and FriendTech, it is built on top of UniV4 and employs novel hooks to generate these tokens.
Sanctuary, a third-person shooter built on B3, offers a brief preview of its gameplay.
Scout Game, a fantasy sports dApp with on-chain devs, holds its TGE on April 21st.
SubQuery Network, a Web3 data indexing network, starts a 60 million SQT consumer rewards program next week.
Token 2049 in Dubai kicks off on April 30th and runs through May 1st.
Towns Protocol has now processed over $9 million in transactions, marking an almost 80% spike over the past seven days.
Virtuals concludes its first-ever hackathon, with Solace, a wellness-focused project, winning first place.
Zora TGEs and lists on most of the major exchanges. Here is a two-hour-plus interview with CEO Jacob.
Our newsletter receives a shoutout from the official Base Twitter, highlighting how Paragraph integrates seamlessly with Farcaster.
Bitcoin (BTC) continues to demonstrate resilience, trading steadily around the low 90s this week. This stability, amid broader market volatility, underscores its emerging role as a store of value. Institutional interest remains strong, with ETF inflows supporting the price. In a significant development, Twenty One Capital, a new Bitcoin treasury company led by Strike founder Jack Mallers and backed by Tether, SoftBank, and Cantor Fitzgerald, announced plans to launch with 42,000 BTC like Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy. These developments highlight the growing institutional adoption of Bitcoin and its evolving narrative as a stable store of value in the financial ecosystem.
Not long after President Trump established a strategic bitcoin reserve and pledged to make the U.S. the "crypto capital of the world", a new corporate bitcoin entity, backed by the investment firm his commerce secretary built, is set to launch.
In the base ecosystem, three tokens list on Coinbase, RSR, Clanker, and Zora, however none of these had positive price action upon listing, hinting at a exhausted altcoin market.
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