Welcome to the second 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

• The base team mints two coins on Zora, Base is for everyone and Base @ Farcon 2025. This initiative is part of a broader push by the team to bring all content onchain.

• Base is for everyone token reaches a $22M FDV, becoming the highest-volume non-major token for the day.

• Jesse publishes a thread discussing content coins in Q&A format.

• The quarterly product roadmap for 2025 Q2.

• Base Batches, a global program for builders, unveils tracks for Batch 001, offering a total of 45 ETH in prizes. In addition, the top 20 builders from Base Batches gain entry to the Network School.

• Based Network Weekly, a new weekly livestream, premieres on 4/17.

Ecosystem Updates

• Aave integrates new oracles to automate supply and borrowing caps.

• Aerodrome adopts the Chainlink standard to help automate reward distributions.

• Avantis lists new forex markets.

• B3 founder delivers a protocol update, highlighting that B3 now has the most token holders of any project in the Base ecosystem.

• BasedTrivia, a game where players guess movies from animated screenshots, is now live.

• The BMX token is now fully emitted, and ownership of the token contract will be burned.

• Definitive introduces its API, providing users with institutional-grade, on-chain execution capabilities.

• DESK, a perp trading platform on Base, enables cbBTC as collateral.

• Farcade and Nouns kick off a themed game jam, inviting developers to create Nouns-inspired games.

• Fibrous, a DEX aggregator, is live on Base.

• FIDO, a onchain neobank, debuts.

• Fluidkey, a dApp designed to preserve on-chain privacy, enables Auto-Earn powered by Morpho.

• Nael, the founder of IDRX, an Indonesian Rupiah-backed stablecoin, promises to shave his head if the protocol reaches a TVL of $10M by the end of June.

• Kaito's founder tweets his thoughts on the future of airdrops and token distribution. Ironically, Wayfinder experiences a hack affecting its airdrop intended for Kaito holders, due to a bug in Kaito's distribution smart contract.

• Klima shares its new tokenomics model and introduces its automated asset manager, which buys and sells tokenized carbon.

• Lordchain, a Base appchain with 1-second block times, premieres its first game, Elisa Revard.

• Loopring DeFi moves to base.

• Mangrove, a spot CLOB DEX, arrives on Base.

• The $MOCA token is now live on Base.

• Ohara, a dApp that uses AI to generate apps and app coins, partners with Farcaster. Additionally, they're hosting a hackathon on 4/19 with $3,000 in prizes.

• ​Prime Intellect releases INTELLECT-2, the first decentralized 32B-parameter reinforcement learning training run, allowing anyone with compute to participate permissionlessly in building open-source AI. ​

• Perpdotfun introduces Autopilot, a copy-trade feature that allows users to follow top-ranked traders.

• Ponder smart wallets were compromised due to a vulnerability in the withdrawal API. This has been fixed and the users refunded.

• Quip Vaults, which are quantum-protected, debut on Base.

• Seamless USDC Vault surpasses $50M in TVL.

• Spectra Finance creates a new cUSDO pool from OpenEden with over 600k in liquidity.

• Spindl, a protocol that builds tools to attribute Web3 growth metrics, integrates Coinbase Wallet.

• Sunflower Land, an online farming game, is now on Base.

• Based Topi mint begins 4/17.

• The $TOWNS protocol teases its Q2 TGE and closes a $10M series B led by a16z.

  

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• $XION bridges to Base and creates a liquidity pool on Aerodrome.

• Warpslot adds $BASED to its list of rewards.

• The $ZED token is now live, powering the Zed horse-racing ecosystem.

• Zora mint's starting market cap is now $22, which is 60x lower than before, helping to create markets and discover content value.

  Community Corner

• Fest25 tickets are on sale now

• A Venice community member makes a site to track apps built using the Venice API.

  Market Snapshot

  Bitcoin rebounded to trade around $84,000 after dipping below $77,000 late last week. Bitcoin's recent price action shows notable resilience, exhibiting less volatility compared to traditional stock markets. This relative stability reinforces Bitcoin's narrative as a potential "store of value," attracting investors seeking refuge amid broader market uncertainties. While equities have faced sharper declines due to macroeconomic tensions, Bitcoin's steadier performance suggests growing maturity and investor confidence in its long-term value preservation potential.

  In the base ecosystem, Wayfinder completes its TGE and lists on Coinbase, rising from an FDV of $180M to a high of $600M, before settling at its current FDV of $260M. Virtuals goes on Binance via a community vote.

  On the decentralized side, "Base is for Everyone" daily trading volume surpasses $40M, making it the highest-volume coin (excluding majors) in the Base ecosystem.

  Stay tuned weekly to keep your finger on the pulse of Base!

  Happy reading,

  Base Roundtable