# Base App Is Live: Create, Earn, and Trade — All in Chat, Secured by XMTP

*The Base App is officially live to the world. *

By [XMTP Community](https://paragraph.com/@xmtp_community) · 2025-12-17

coinbase, base, mini-apps, agents

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Base App isn’t just another crypto app. It’s an onchain social and economic hub where you can **create, earn, trade, and discover**—all inside DMs and group chats.

Chat is not just a feature but a foundation for users interact, talk with agents, and share mini apps to play in groups.

This is what messaging looks like when it’s built for mini apps, agents, and real economic activity.

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**Chat is the New App Store**
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In Base App, chat isn’t something you use _alongside_ mini apps.

Chat **is** where mini apps live.

Inside conversations:

*   Mini apps are discovered organically
    
*   Trading happens in real time
    
*   Money moves instantly
    
*   Groups coordinate, play, and build together
    

For users, this feels natural—everything happens where conversations already are.

For builders, it unlocks an entirely new programmable surface area: **the group chat**.

Instead of fighting for attention in an app store, apps spread through the group social graph, shared directly in conversations.

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**Agents Live Natively in Chat**
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Base App brings agents directly into the chat.

Add [@Bankr](https://bankr.bot/) to a group chat and you can:

*   Send money instantly to everyone in the group
    

*   Launch a token with friends
    
*   Discover and interact with prediction markets
    

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/211468b680dec44d7cb086b4d15e614bd49432c06baf84d1096e95530f72ba24.png)

Agents aren’t external tools anymore, they’re first-class participants in the chat—able to read context, take action, and move value seamlessly.

**Bankr was part of 20,000+ DMs and Group chats in the Base App during beta.**

  
  
  

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**Discover Mini Apps**
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Mini apps in Base App run **inside conversations**.

They can be:

*   Opened directly from chat
    
*   Shared with a group in one tap
    
*   Used collaboratively, in real time
    

Users never leave the conversation and discovery is social by default.

Instead of links getting lost or apps fighting for installs, mini apps meet users exactly where they already are—inside their trusted groups.

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XMTP is Chat You Can Build On
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All of this is powered by **XMTP**, the decentralized messaging protocol securing Base Chat.

That means:

*   End-to-end, quantum-resistant encrypted group chats
    
*   Open, decentralized messaging infrastructure
    
*   Identity-agnostic access via passkeys
    
*   Built from day one for agents and apps
    

Privacy isn’t a feature you opt into.

It’s the default.

Messaging shouldn’t depend on trusting a single company. XMTP makes privacy a protocol guarantee—not a promise.

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For users, Base App unlocks:

*   Better coordination
    
*   Faster money movement
    
*   Richer social experiences
    
*   Apps that feel native to conversation
    

For builders, it opens:

*   A new place to create
    
*   New distribution via social graphs
    
*   New ways to earn inside chat
    
*   A direct path to users, without friction  
      
    Base App is live, Base Chat is secured by XMTP.  
    Download it today:  
    [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/base-formerly-coinbase-wallet/id1278383455)  
    [Google Play]( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.toshi&hl=en_US)

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*Originally published on [XMTP Community](https://paragraph.com/@xmtp_community/base-app-is-live-create-earn-and-trade-%E2%80%94-all-in-chat-secured-by-xmtp)*