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Welcome to the very first 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.
Alliance Dao is hosting a $500k Base hackathon in SF. Apply by April 30th.
Builders now get free threat monitoring on Base from Hexgate.
AAVE is adding additional yield incentives for EURC borrowers.
Aerodrome launches $TIBBIR/$WETH pool with incentives. $TIBBIR is the reported AI agent of Ribbit Capital, a large crypto VC.
Arcadia Finance, a liquidity management protocol, concludes its token sale on Fjord and kicks off on Aerodrome 4/10.
Avantis, a perp dex on Base, states that 5/31 will be the end of their season 2. Wen token.
B3 co-founder discusses issues in web3 gaming and solutions. Their FPS , Sanctuary, launches in Q3.
Based glyphs minting begins 4/10/2025.
Bio x AI hackathon starts 4/8/2025 for 2 months, offering 125k in prizes.
Blackbird introduces Blackbird club, a new loyalty program. and closes a $50M series B funding round.
Ben Leventhal, the founder and CEO of Blackbird Labs, also helped cofound the restaurant-focused publication Eater and the app Resy.
BLCK MKR raffles, akin to NFT lotteries, are live on base.
BMX adds wBLT as collateral on Morpho, enhancing LP efficiency.
Byte Ai enables Domino's pizza orders using USDC starting 4/10.
Clanker introduces a new TypeScript sdk for ecosystem development. A community member wrote a extensive ecosystem article.
Constellation Network bridges tokens to Base and adds liquidity on Aerodrome.
Farcade shipped multiple updates and new daily games.
Farcaster now has around 200k users with a verified X account connected (25% of userbase).
Flipp, an mobile app that focuses on trading, launches on iOS and Android.
Javsphere now offers leveraged trading on over 80 stocks.
Kaito’s founder publishes an article about its InfoFi vision.
Klima starts its fair launch focused on on-chain carbon.
Morpho sees $50M USDC borrowed with BTC collateral via Coinbase Wallet.
Native market debuts as the first token marketplace featuring an AI assistant and token launcher.
Pods reaches 1 million podcast NFTs minted.
Records integrates with BaseNames and ENS.
Spectral Labs powers an ai agent generating content for TikTok and OnlyFans.
Talent Protocol awards 2 ETH weekly to the top 100 builders.
Warpslot nears 1 million spins, offering free slot machine gaming with token payouts.
Veil cash, a protocol focused on privacy, starts their wave 3 deposit incentives open for the next 7 days. $Veil token staking begins 4/10.
Venice provides an overview of all the recent updates.
Virtuals redirects 40% of subDAO fees to creator wallets.
ZARP Stablecoins launches the ZAR-pegged stablecoin, ZARP, on Aerodrome.
Zora introduces coin for coin swapping.
Creator @doro_doro posted a cat picture on X and Zora, which someone tokenized on pump.fun. The original Zora token surpassed the copycat token's market cap within 24 hours—a win for creators.
While there are thousands of tokens in the Base ecosystem, tracking them all can be challenging. To simplify things, this section will exclusively focus on Base tokens listed by Coinbase or featured in Coinbase’s official roadmap. If macro trends dominate, we will include updates on major cryptocurrencies as well. Each week, we'll highlight significant price movements, trading volume trends, and liquidity updates, providing valuable insights into the most influential tokens in the ecosystem.
As of April 10th, BTC is down around 5%, while ETH is down approximately 8%. The crypto market has experienced considerable volatility, following movements in traditional financial markets. Notably, on April 9th, BTC surged above $82,000 following President Trump's announcement of a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, sparking a broader market rally.
Specifically within the Base ecosystem, the two meme coins launched last week, DOGINME and KEYCAT, have struggled relative to EDGE, which was also launched on Coinbase last week but has held steadier.
Happy reading,
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