Joining Base, Coinbase’s L2 Network
David Tso
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A New Chapter
IT’ᔑ OᑎᑕᕼᗩIᑎ ᔑᑌᗰᗰEᖇ and I’m incredibly excited to share that I’ll be joining Base / Coinbase’s ecosystem team.
I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with the talented folks at Base over the past year, and my passion for Base’s mission has grown steadily.
Mission
Like Base, I believe the global onchain economy is a powerful force for good that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom around the world.
Too many people are locked out of the current financial system, and onchain enables better ways to earn, save, and transfer value.
Base
Base is a new onchain platform that fosters real world use cases like consumer, commerce, payments, trading, etc., and supports builders of all kinds who create them.
Onchain is the next online, and Base represents the best of this movement to bring our entire world onchain.
Team
From the day I got involved in the Base community, I’ve always hoped I’d get a chance to work alongside Jesse, who has had a huge impact on me.
There was also no doubt in my mind that Sam’s world-class ecosystem team was the team I wanted to learn from and build with.
Still Day One
I feel fortunate to be able to continue my journey onchain by supporting the incredible partners, builders, creators, community members, etc., in the thriving Base ecosystem.
There’s lots of work to do, and the job’s not finished until a million builders and a billion users are onchain. 🫡
Collect this post as an NFT.
Base is bringing the whole world onchain Here’s how we’re making it happen: - Supporting onchain consumer apps like @zora, @farcaster, @paragraph, /blackbird, /bracket, @slice, @interface, @rodeodotclub, @pods, @cooprecs, and more - Moving @coinbase’s business onchain with Verified Pools, Coinbase One, Bitcoin-backed loans, and cbBTC - Rebuilding @coinbasewallet to be 10x easier to use and to boost mini app discovery - Writing the @base Launch Playbook to help app and token builders go from zero to onchain - Distributing Builder Rewards to the most active developers every week through @talent - Backing builders through @cbventures + echo.xyz - Hosting buildathons across LatAm, Africa, North America, Europe, APAC, and India that funnel builders to @alliance and @balajis.eth’s Network School through Base Batches - Standing up local currency stablecoins in every country …
- Funding based community meetups all over the world - Going on a world tour where we met 1,000+ builders, selected 50+ buildathon winners, and hosted 10+ events - Developing privacy-preserving primitives by bringing on the team behind @ironfishcrypto - Helping builders go viral onchain and find distribution with @spindl - Accelerating our onchain payments roadmap by onboarding the team from @utopialabs - Providing every app and protocol access to free smart contract monitoring and analytics with hexagate.com - Giving developers the building blocks for world-class apps with @onchainkit - Helping games and other projects go gasless with @coinbasedev Paymaster …
- Letting users build their onchain identities through Basenames - Making Base 10x faster through Flashblocks - Allowing teams to scale through Appchains - Improving UX through Smart Wallet Sub Accounts - Scaling Base’s blockspace capacity to 250 Mgas/s - Achieving Stage 1 decentralization - Pushing the boundaries of onchain AI with buildathons in London, Bangalore, and San Francisco - Building, creating, connecting, and dreaming with Onchain Summer each year It still feels like day one – the best is yet to come
Read and mint on @paragraph: https://paragraph.com/@cryptso/base-mission
Base is on a mission to bring the world onchain, focusing on consumer apps, Coinbase’s business integrations, and ease of use for developers. Ongoing initiatives include hosting buildathons globally, supporting onchain identity, and advancing decentralization. Exciting developments lie ahead. @cryptso.eth
Base is where long term brands and creators choose to launch and build onchain: Brands - /nba: co-hosted Coinbase Arena at NBA Crossover during NBA All-Star Weekend 2025 - /warriors: launched a limited edition collectible that brought 1600+ fans onchain and rewarded the first 200 with custom jerseys - USA Basketball: teamed up with renowned artist Daniel Arsham to create a collectible to celebrate 50 years of USA Basketball - /olympics: dropped two unique digital collectibles featuring the Paris 2024 mascot via @nwaygames - /adidas: commemorated the 2024 Summer of Sports onchain with unique pieces of memorabilia for fans - /onefootball: brought football fandom onchain with @onefootballclub, a place for fans across the globe to enjoy the sport they love - Atari: brought arcade classics like Asteroids and Breakout onchain - Team Liquid: launched Teamfight Tactics and Hearthstone gaming tournaments via @communitygaming
- Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team: partnered with Coinbase entirely in USDC and will explore bringing fan engagement opportunities onchain - /lamborghini: created Fast ForWorld, an immersive hub for motorsport enthusiasts onchain - /mercedesbenznxt: launched a generative collection inspired by the Mercedes-Benz design language - The Metropolitan Museum of Art: dropped an onchain game uncovering connections across the museum’s iconic collection - @cocacola: brought their Global Masterpiece campaign onchain with works from emerging artists - Liquid Death: brought Onchain Vision, a world of onchain creativity, to the masses while they shopped for groceries - LimeWire: dropped Non-Fungible Torrents, a limited edition onchain collection that contains music from deadmau5, Sean Kingston, or merch - Stripe: added USDC on Base to their crypto payouts product to enable faster, cheaper money transfers to over 150 countries
- Regal: offered in-person savings at any Regal Movies theatre over the holidays when customers paid with USDC on Base via @flexa - Lollapalooza: collaborated with Coinbase for a chance to score an amazing view of the Coinbase Stage and tickets to the Lolla Aftershow - @bloombergcrypto: dropped their podcast Evolving Money, produced in collaboration with Coinbase, onchain via @pods - @forbes: dropped a soulbound collectible with benefits including a 6-month subscription to Forbes and a gift card with Sleap - FORTUNE: published an article about Jesse Pollak to demonstrate the transformative power of onchain content - @bitwise: aired a spot on national TV comparing Ethereum to big finance and brought it onchain
Creators - /takashi-murakami: dropped ‘Murakami․Flowers Collectible Trading Cards - 108 Flowers,’ an onchain trading card collection - Michael Mann: dropped a series of collectibles to bring fans inside the experience of directing his film ‘Ferrari’ - Wu Tang Clan: dropped their legendary album ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ onchain via @pleasr - Gunna: brought his audience onchain with a One of Wun collectible, including music, merch, and behind-the-scenes content - @wakaflocka: provided exclusive behind the scenes live streams at the Rolling Loud festival in Thailand via @simpssocial - tripleS: teamed up with /sofamon to bring limited-edition digital wearables onchain - ODESZA: dropped their hit singles ‘Sun Models’ and ‘Say My Name’ onchain via @cooprecs - San Holo: brought his hourlong ‘what is life? Silent Disco’ session onchain via Coop Records
Latest newsletter, “Base Is for Everyone,” just dropped on @paragraph! I cover: - @base as the center of onchain AI - Building toward the Baselana future - @coinbase as the frontdoor to the global onchain economy - Base Around the World and @devcon - And more https://paragraph.xyz/@cryptso/base-is-for-everyone
Latest newsletter, “Base Era” just dropped on @paragraph! I cover: - AI and onchain converging on @base - Internet payments running on stablecoins - The perfect pairing of Base and @CoinbaseWallet - Base becoming the top L2 in just 1 year since launch - And more https://paragraph.xyz/@cryptso/base-era
Good dashboards/data sources to keep up with the fast-growing @base economy: - Base key metrics: tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/base - Base blockspace usage @growthepie: growthepie.xyz/chains/base - Base application activity @artemisxyz: app.artemis.xyz/activity-monitor/base - Base stablecoin overview @artemisxyz: app.artemisanalytics.com/stablecoins?chain=base - Base gas price tracker @dune.eth: dune.com/payton/base-l2-gas-price-tracker - Base user growth: dune.com/watermeloncrypto/base - Base DEX metrics @sealaunch: dune.com/sealaunch/dex-metrics-on-base - DEX cross-chain metrics @sealaunch: dune.com/sealaunch/dex-cross-chain-metrics - Superchain application growth @msilb7: app.hex.tech/61bffa12-d60b-484c-80b9-14265e268538/app/cd3f1525-08f0-4a49-a15a-b72f46f2a0d8/latest - Revenue-generating developers @msilb7: dune.com/oplabspbc/developer-metrics-sploring#fee-generating-developers-metric-v2 - L2 benchmarks and comparisons @msilb7: dune.com/msilb7/l2-benchmarks ...
- L2 transactions @l2beat: l2beat.com/scaling/activity - L2 assets on platform @l2beat: l2beat.com/scaling/tvl - L2 gas fees @0xkofi: gasfees.io - Rollup economics @0xkofi: dune.com/niftytable/rollup-economics - ERC4337 data @0xkofi: bundlebear.com - Coinbase Smart Wallet KPIs @wilsoncusack: dune.com/wilsoncusack/coinbase-smart-wallet-kpis - Coinbase Smart Wallet and Magic Spend usage @0x-ry: dune.com/ryanyyi/coinbase-smart-wallet - Farcaster Frames transactions @jhackworth: dune.com/jhackworth/frames - Optimism Retro Funding analysis: dune.com/cryptodatabytes/crypto-grants-analysis A new global economy is being built – this time onchain and by everyone, for everyone
Read and mint on @paragraph: https://paragraph.xyz/@cryptso/base-dashboards
thanks for creating the article!! much easier to check later
Cooking on new dashboards
A new one for the list https://dune.com/sealaunch/base-overview
+ how based we are today @crystaltai: onbase.dev
would be really cool if the highlight that i minted would allow me to be considered as a collector of the overall post too i really like this highlight mint feature but i feel sad i'm not recognized as contributing to the overall article
but also check out @cryptso.eth 's announcement post :D https://paragraph.xyz/@cryptso/base
Agreed! And very grateful for your support @thatguyintech 🫶
wow there's a highlight mint feature!?!? let me check right now
yeah i just tried it out for the first time!! really love that i can highlight something that other people can see LOL
wow!! just minted, that's such a lovely feature 🫶
1/ 🔆 IT’ᔑ OᑎᑕᕼᗩIᑎ ᔑᑌᗰᗰEᖇ 🔆 and I’m incredibly excited to share that I’ll be joining @base / @coinbase’s Partner Management team I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with the talented folks at Base over the past year, and my passion for Base’s mission has grown steadily
2/ Like Base, I believe the global onchain economy is a powerful force for good that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom around the world Too many people are locked out of the current financial system, and onchain enables better ways to earn, save, and transfer value
3/ Base is a new onchain platform that fosters real world use cases like consumer, commerce, payments, trading, etc., and supports builders of all kinds who create them Onchain is the next online, and Base represents the best of this movement to bring our entire world onchain
4/ From the day I got involved in the Base community, I’ve always hoped I’d get a chance to work alongside @jessepollak, who has had a huge impact on me There was also no doubt in my mind that @frankel’s world-class ecosystem team was the team I wanted to learn from and build with
I was talking to someone yesterday. Polygon is just a technology. Base is technology and product distribution both. That's why Base wins!
👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 This is HUGE!!! Congrats man 🎉🎉🎉
Appreciate you Chinmay ❤️
Congrats Ser ❤️
Thanks Jakub ❤️
welcome to the team!
Can’t wait to build together 💙
Welcome! So excited to build together
Thank you Sam! LFB 🚀