TLDR: Base just wrapped up our first world tour. We traveled to Kenya, India, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines. We met over 1,000 builders, selected 50+ buildathon winners, and hosted 11 events. We’re so excited to keep working alongside our global builder community in 2025. Builders are creating the onchain future, around the world With Ba

TL;DR: Fault proofs are now live on Base Mainnet, marking a key milestone on our path to decentralization. With this upgrade, anyone can now participate in securing Base, creating a more trusted and open economy for everyone. Building towards decentralization From the beginning of Base, we have championed the belief that creating an open, global on

TL;DR: Base’s decentralization roadmap focuses on transparency and enhancing onchain security. To support this, we’re committed to fostering a secure environment for onchain builders. Today, we’re announcing access to free smart contract monitoring and analytics for every app and protocol on Base, powered by Hexagate. Apply now. Building Base with

TLDR: Base is for everyone — and this fall, we’re going global by meeting with builders around the world. We’ll start with a series of regional buildathons in Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. The buildathons will run from September 27 to October 20, with 100 ETH in total prizes. Then in November, the Base team and Jesse Pollak will

Lessons learned from Base’s recent block building outage Base is committed to building in the open, including public retrospectives to share learnings when issues arise. On 09/21/2024 at 15:14 UTC, Base Mainnet experienced a 17 minute block building outage. The integrity of the chain was not affected, all funds on Base were safe, and block producti

One of Base’s 2024 roadmap initiatives is making onchain accessible and affordable for everyone. We’re focused on delivering fast, low-cost transactions on a secure, decentralized L2 to enable global participation in the onchain economy. We’re showcasing our progress in this new blog series, Scaling Base, where we’ll share updates and our plan as w

TLDR: Basenames are the fastest way to start building on Base, making it easier to connect, collaborate, and contribute onchain. Get your Basename at base.org/names As more and more people come onchain, wallet addresses aren't cutting it as a way to connect with each other. These long strings of numbers and text add friction to transactions, make i

TLDR: Onchain Summer is back. We’re inviting builders, creators, brands, and artists to co-create Onchain Summer with us and help bring a billion people onchain. This summer, everyone can be a builder, and Base and our partners are offering over 600 ETH¹ ($2 million) in prizes, grants, and gas credits. What are you building? Submit your project for

TLDR. We’re inviting builders around the world to join the Onchain Summer Buildathon, with 200 ETH in total prizes and sponsors including Stripe, Shopify, Farcaster, Zora, Fleek, thirdweb, Nouns, Aerodrome, and Synthetix. To kickoff Onchain Summer, we’re hosting one of the largest global online hackathons ever, dedicated to bringing the world oncha

TLDR: Since day one, Base has rallied a community of builders working to create a decentralized future onchain, together. We’ve seen the impact of collective action to reshape the internet, and now with the 1-year anniversary of Base mainnet coming up this August, we’re bringing the community together in person with BaseCamp, our inaugural gatherin