Week of April 28th: Edition 4
Your Essential Guide to the Latest Developments in the Base Ecosystem
Welcome to the fourth 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.
Base Updates
Base reaches stage 1 decentralization by launching permissionless fault proofs and enhancing decentralization of the contract upgrade process through a security council.
Base gas target hits 32.5 Mgas/s.
Jessie shares his thoughts on content coins via video.
Episode 2 of the Based Creator show is live.
There's a new Superbuilder role at Base, focused on building tooling and agents. Applications are open now.
Ecosystem Updates
Acid Test, a new radio show on Farcaster, surpasses 1,000 views for its first episode, with half of those viewers minting the episode.
Aerodrome secures a 650K OP grant to provide additional incentives for selected pools. This marks the fifth consecutive week in which $AERO locks exceed $AERO emissions.
Avantis Season 2 concludes, and a five-week endgame phase begins. Avantis also introduces zero-fee perpetuals.
B3 unveils play-to-win tournaments.
Definitive rolls out EDGE Ascent, introducing tiered staking and trading rewards.
Factcheck 2.0, a new on-chain prediction market, premieres.
Farcade becomes the #1 gaming app on World App.
Farcaster Wallet is now available on the web app.
Flipp, a mobile trading app, receives a UI update.
Jasper Pro, an on-chain BTC options platform with physical settlement, debuts on Base.
Megapot, a fully on-chain lottery, is featured in Forbes.
Metacade issues its first Zora content mint.
Over $100M USDC is borrowed via Bitcoin-backed loans on Base through Morpho in less than 100 days.
OK COMPUTERS, an official collaboration between @dailofrog and Bankr, starts minting Friday, May 2nd at 5 pm EST.
OpenCover collaborates with vfat to create a new insurance option underwritten by Nexus Mutual.
@precoindotfun, a premarket token launcher for creator memecoins, lets anyone permissionlessly create a pre-market pool for any creator on Farcaster—and soon on X. Each precoin has its own liquidity pool and trades freely. It's a permissionless speculation market based on social clout, integrated with Farcaster and X.
Podpredict is the world's first esports prediction market.
ResearchHub partners with @endaomentdotorg to fund institutional research using crypto. Users can now preregister studies and fund them with $RSC, receiving tax-deductible receipts and enabling quick fiat payouts directly to university labs.
soonBase Mainnet goes live as the native SVM Rollup on Base.
Talent Protocol is hosting a Base Batches Workshop on May 8th.
Tunnl, a protocol for launching automated creator campaigns, is live on Base.
The ZED Champions Stud Marketplace is now open for breeding foals and studs.
Yield, a cross-chain yield optimizer, partners with Aerodrome.
Zora now pools new content coins with $ZORA instead of $ETH, creating a Virtuals like flywheel effect.
Community Corner
The Base team is hosting a Farcon meetup in Brooklyn on May 2nd.
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Market Snapshot
Bitcoin (BTC) sees strong upward momentum this week, gaining over 10k and reaching its highest level since early March. Institutional inflows into Bitcoin ETFs exceed $2.6 billion, indicating growing confidence from large-scale investors. Regulatory developments, including the appointment of Paul Atkins as the new SEC chairman and favorable U.S. stablecoin legislation, have further boosted market sentiment. Additionally, macroeconomic uncertainties and inflation concerns continue to position Bitcoin as a hedge, reinforcing its narrative as a reliable store of value.
Below is an interesting interview from the head of Coinbase Ventures on how they look at projects and potential investments.
New Podcast Drop I sat down with @HoolieG from @cbventures to talk all things Coinbase Ventures — what they’re backing, why they’re betting on Base, what makes a project stand out, and much much more.
Wondering what Coinbase Ventures is betting big on right now?
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Base Roundtable