TL;DR: Base is evolving to be more than a chain. Today, at A New Day One, we introduced the Base app (formerly Coinbase Wallet), an everything app to create, earn, trade, discover apps, and chat with friends all in one place. When you sign up for the Base app, you’ll automatically also get the best of the Base Account, the easiest way to manage your onchain identity, and Base Pay, the fastest way to checkout with USDC. 

Nearly two years ago, we launched Base with a vision to build a global economy that fosters innovation, creativity, and freedom. We set out to make getting onchain simple and accessible, with transactions faster than a second and cheaper than a cent. Since then, we've also invested in providing the tools and support that help builders create amazing and fun onchain apps. Now, we're making it even simpler for anyone to discover and enjoy these experiences anywhere onchain.

Here's a look at everything we announced as part of our A New Day One livestream:

Base is growing from a chain to an open stack built to empower builders, creators, and people everywhere to build apps, grow businesses, create what they love, and earn onchain.  The three parts of the Base stack work together to support the future of an open, global economy for everyone: 

• Base Chain: An open network for the global economy. Formerly just “Base,” the secure, fast, and low-cost Ethereum L2, built on the Superchain empowering a global onchain economy at scale. With today’s mainnet launch of Flashblocks, we’re reducing effective block times from 2 seconds to just 200 milliseconds, making Base Chain 10x faster. Learn more. 

• Base Build: Our continued commitment to fostering a vibrant builder ecosystem at base.org/build. Base Build will continue to provide builders with the tools and support they need to create the next wave of onchain experiences. This includes the new Base Build dashboard that will help teams build, grow, and monetize their mini apps.

• Base App: Your new home, onchain. Built on open protocols, the next evolution of Coinbase Wallet is more than a wallet, it’s where you create, earn, trade, discover apps and chat with friends all in one place. The next version is in beta now. Join the waitlist at base.app.

Alongside this evolution, we’ve reimagined how Base looks and feels, with a new visual identity created in the open and shaped in collaboration with artists, builders, and the community. A truly decentralized internet deserves a brand built with everyone, not handed down from the top.

Coinbase Wallet is now the Base app, evolving from a wallet into an everything app that brings together social, apps, chat, payments, and trading. Anyone can manage their assets, post, connect with others, and directly earn from their work.

We believe the next chapter of the internet won’t come from big platforms. It’ll come from creators. That’s why we rebuilt the Base app from the ground up, not just as a wallet, but as a new kind of open social network. One where you own what you post. Where your work earns. Where your feed is yours. Now, anyone can post, trade, chat, and get rewarded. Here’s what we’re excited about:

On today’s social media platforms, the platforms maintain control over content and users, and capture most of the value everyone creates. With decentralized social media, no single company owns user data or content, putting users directly in control. Creators can earn directly from their content and have the freedom to take their identity and content with them across different apps, rather than being locked into one platform.

The new social feed in the Base app is powered by Farcaster, which means creators can own their content and earn directly from their success. Creators don’t need to rely on brand deals or massive followings to earn their first dollar. Anyone, anywhere in the world can get on Base and earn from day one. We're enabling a flywheel between creators and their audience where any user can easily tip or collect their favorite content directly, creating a new economic model for creators. Some key features of the new Base app include:  

• Earn from your content: Every post is a coin that can be bought, powered by Zora. Creators can earn with no follower minimum, brand deals, or geo restrictions.

• Watch your network trade: See what your friends are buying and swapping, and jump in without leaving the feed. Discover new tokens and trade in just a few taps.

• Post and be rewarded: Top creators who post and engage with the community on the Base app will earn weekly rewards for a limited time, subject to applicable terms and conditions. Payouts occur weekly directly in the app, where you can track all your earnings as a creator.

Everything onchain is now in one app. No downloads or switching tabs or apps just to share something fun.

• Explore mini apps: Mini apps live right in your feed. Play games, earn yield, create your own prediction market, and more. Pin your favorites, discover promoted apps, and see what’s trending. Hundreds of mini apps are available on day one, including:

  • Remix: Play, create, and share games instantly, no installs, no coding, just fun. Turn your game ideas into reality in minutes using AI tools, and play thousands of games built by other users.

  • Noice: Support the people and content you love by automatically tipping creators onchain. Enable your likes, follows, comments, and reposts to automatically tip creators. 

  • Decentralized Pictures: Co-create cinema onchain. Watch trailers, remix them, and coin them, with rewards going directly to creators. 

• Access millions of coins: Buy, sell, and swap millions of onchain coins with fast and integrated transaction flows within the Base app. Your keys, your crypto. 

• Send money with just a tap: Send or receive USDC on Base for free by using NFC tap-to-pay in person. Transfer in seconds and get it immediately in your account. 

• Customize your space:  You own your social profile. Customize it, theme it, and bring it with you anywhere you go. 

• Earn, just by holding crypto: Activate USDC rewards and earn up to *4.1% APY just by holding USDC.

Chat is now more than conversations. Powered by XMTP, they’re living, breathing spaces where you can share apps, send money, or even message AI agents — and it’s all end-to-end encrypted and private.

• Build a community: Create group chats, manage conversations, and share your social content, all without leaving the app.

• Transact with AI: Make trades, send money, or even balance your portfolio with the help of AI agents like Bankr or Mamo that integrate directly with messaging. 

• Send funds to friends: Send or receive USDC on Base instantly within your chats with no transaction fees. 

• Keep everything private and secure: Every conversation is end-to-end encrypted, so you have ownership and privacy of your discussions.

Powering the Base app experience is Base Account, a universal sign-in for the open internet. It’s an evolution of smart wallet, now easier to use than ever. 

Signing up for the Base app automatically creates a Base Account, which is designed to work across apps, chains, and will soon expand to even more platforms. Now you can “Sign in with Base,” and your account details will follow you across the onchain ecosystem. You’ll be able to manage your Base account in Base app and account.base.app. Once you create an account, it’s yours to own, anywhere onchain. 

Developers can learn about adding “Sign in with Base” to your app here.

Alongside the Base Account, we’re rolling out Base Pay, a new express checkout that is the fastest way to pay with USDC, making commerce fast, low-cost, and borderless. Save your name, shipping address, and email once to your Base Account, and check out in seconds, anywhere it’s supported.

Last month, we introduced a partnership with Shopify that will bring USDC payments on Base to millions of merchants worldwide. Starting today, Base Pay is a new payment method option available to Shopify merchants, bringing fast onchain checkout to Shopify stores. You can try it out today at storefronts like Erewhon’s online shop. In the US, Shopify plans to provide 1% cash back to customers when they pay with USDC, at no cost to the merchant (coming later this year). Merchants are automatically cashed out in their local currency with no foreign exchange or multi-currency fees. 

Base Pay is available to any developer or merchant that wants to accept USDC payments. You can learn more about accepting Base Pay here.

Today marks a new chapter for Base and everyone building with us. This vision brings everything together: social, identity, apps, payments. All powered by Base. All open by default.

What isn’t changing is that we’ll continue to build in the open, with open source code, open standards, and open markets. This isn’t something we’re building alone. It’s being shaped by thousands of developers, creators, and communities building on Base every day. We invite everyone to sign up to try the new Base app beta, share your feedback, and most importantly, keep building alongside us. Your participation is what will truly shape the next iteration of the internet.

The Base app beta is starting to roll out now for everyone already on the waitlist. If you want early access, get on the waitlist at base.app.

The global economy is no longer a distant future. It's here. Join us and let’s build the next chapter of the internet, together.

Follow us on X, Farcaster, and join our Discord to get building — and follow the Base team and Base community leaders to stay up to date.

*Coinbase does not intend for the reward-bearing products described herein to constitute a securities offering, and purchasing these products is not the same as investing in a securities offering. The rewards rate (up to 4.1 % APY) is subject to change, set at Coinbase’s discretion, and shown in-app for eligible users. USDC Rewards on Base app is rolling out in the U.S. and is unavailable in the EU or Canada; U.S. Base app users must link a Coinbase account to earn. 

This blog contains statements about product features and services that may not yet be available or are provided by third parties. These forward-looking statements are based on our current plans and may change or be postponed without notice. Content is for educational purposes only–nothing here is financial advice or a buy/sell recommendation. Use of any feature remains subject to the Base Account and Base app Terms of Service and Base Terms of Service.