Base positions itself as a secure L2 solution for scaling Ethereum. For us, as for ordinary users, this is just another L2 blockchain, which will have its own ecosystem of dApps, with which we will work through the MetaMask we are used to, adding just one more network to it.

The goal of Base, like most new blockchains, is to bring a billion users into the crypto economy and since Coinbase already has a base of more than 110 million users, unlike most other blockchains, this statement does not look unfounded.

Although Base is incubated by the centralized company Coinbase, it aims to create a decentralized blockchain. That's why Base is built on top of Optimism, another L2 ether scaling solution with a $1B TVL and a $500M market cap.

Base does not plan to launch a token, and ETH will be used as gas in the network, as in the same Optimism and Arbitrum.

Probably, there is no need to read between the lines here, and Base really will not have a token, because, firstly, it is not needed from the point of view of the main utility - payment of commissions. Secondly, Coinbase is a public company that is traded on the stock market and it already has a token - these are COIN shares and the entire potential upside of the capitalization growth of this project can be applied just to COIN, but more on that later.