New year, new internet. As 2025 kicks off, Base is alive with fresh ideas, projects, and moments that remind us why building onchain matters. Here’s what happened this week:
🖼 Portrait: Your Forever Website
Your online space should feel like home: secure and personal. Portrait just launched on Base after two years of building with a vision for a new internet where you own your identity — and in just 48 hours, 1,000+ portraits were minted. Ready to bring your website onchain?
📷 Base Camera: Moments in Low-Res
Want to see the world through a different lens? Base Camera is a nostalgic camera created by Lanton Mills. Snap three low-res frames and preserve the magic onchain.
👨🦲 Bald for $10B TVL: LIvestream and AMA
This week, Jesse Pollak celebrated Base hitting $10B TVL by going bald — live.
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During the shave, Jesse hosted an AMA with questions asked onchain via a commemorative mint. Proceeds went to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
🎙 Bet on Yourself: Stories that Build
NBA star Fred VanVleet has brought his podcast onchain, for all the builders making moves in culture and impact. Latest guest: Clarence Ford, who scaled a nonprofit teaching circus arts to the kids who need it most. Listen on Pods.
📖 Kneaded: Publishing is moving onchain
Knead Magazine's 2025 membership gets you interviews with creators like fvckrender, Dylan Abruscato of Crypto the Game, and gmoney — digging into the overlap of tech, art, food, and music.
Last week, Meowphasaurus sparked an idea:
Doesn’t matter which collection, as long as it’s @base!
The team took the invitation to heart. Every PFP on Base tells a story about the creativity and community being built here.
Doesn’t matter which collection, as long as it’s @base!
Now it’s your turn. Choose your favorite Base NFT, make it your PFP, and tag us. To bring the world onchain, everyone needs to find their place (and face) in this growing ecosystem.
Let’s see what you’ve got.
