On February 23, 2023, we launched the testnet of Base, a new L2 blockchain incubated by Coinbase that offers developers a secure, low-cost, and easy way to build dapps to bring the next billion users on-chain.
In the month since launch, we’ve been immensely grateful for the incredible ecosystem of builders supporting and building on Base. This post is dedicated to the Base community, sharing some of our favorite highlights.
A Blue Dot Becomes an Avalanche
Twenty-four hours before the launch, Coinbase tweeted a mysterious 🔵 to tease that something big was in the works. Base collaborators, ecosystem players, and the community at large amplified the message until curiosity about the origins of 🔵 took Twitter by storm.
The world met Base the next day. What started with curiosity and conversation has turned into an incredible group of builders on Base.
‘Base, Introduced’
Base is for everyone. To include everyone in the celebration, we dropped ‘Base, Introduced’ – a commemorative NFT collection minted on Zora. It became one of the largest open-edition Ethereum collections, with over 485K editions minted and 368K unique holders.
‘Base, Introduced’ has inspired other ‘Introduced’ NFTs in the community, such as the recent Safe{Core}, Introduced NFT.
ETHDenver
We brought the entire Base team to ETHDenver with a single goal: help folks understand why we’re building Base and how they can get involved. It was an incredible week.
Home Base, our hacker house, hosted more than 5,500 people throughout the week. We took 145 Polaroids with builders for our wall, each signifying a commitment from a team to build on Base.
Beyond commitments, we were amazed by the 60 teams that built on Base during the hackathon and the quality of the submissions. We recently announced the winners:
- Decent AI: A decentralized marketplace for running AI models based on mutual incentives (First Place).
- Rhinestone: The first modular implementation of account abstraction (ERC-4337) using modified diamond proxies (Second Place).
- Inheritable: A web3 Will solution for secure, decentralized inheritance anchored on Base and powered by Weavechain (Third Place).
If you couldn’t make it to ETHDenver, you can still participate in the experience. We gave a number of talks — check them out:
- Why onchain is the next online
- Bridging the world to web3
- Supercharging the UX of self-custody wallets
- Building native mobile applications
Did you visit or meet us at ETHDenver? Subscribe to mint the commemorative NFT.
Shout Out to the Base Community
Base is first and foremost for builders. In the first week of Base, 18K developers deployed 55K smart contracts on testnet. Each contributing builder makes Base a stronger developer ecosystem and paves the way for an on-chain economy with diverse use cases. We’re excited to work with our growing community of builders to bring the next billion users on-chain together.
Looking Ahead
Ultimately, what made the launch of Base a success were the values that guided us here: Base is for everyone, leading us to work with an incredible community of ecosystem builders toward a common goal. Base is decentralized and open source, pushing us to welcome our community to be part of the storytelling and celebration. Base is a bridge, not an island, pushing us to work with the community to make Base deeply interconnected to the broader ecosystem.
We are grateful for your support of our testnet and excited to keep supporting each of you in building. We look forward to working together to bring Base to mainnet in the months ahead.
Resources
- Website: Base.org
- Developer Documentation: Base Developer Docs
- Join the Community: Base Discord
- Follow Us: Base Twitter
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