Today marks 3 years of Base A lot has happened: - Almost $5B in TVL - $46T in stablecoin volume - 90% of all x402 transactions All of this is thanks to the builders and believers Still day one

Introducing a new home for @base builders and node operators. Helpful resources in one place: 1. Vibenet: an ephemeral devnet for beta testing features ahead of mainnet 2. Upgrades: track expected fork timelines and what will ship in each 3. Snapshots: reth v2 snapshots for faster node sync More coming soon

@base v2 snapshots are live 🔵 - mainnet snapshots shrank from ~7TB → ~3.2TB due to a new chunked, better-compressed schema - sync times cut from ~5hr → ~2hr - pruned nodes land ~1TB if you run a base node, migrate before the mid-august MDBX hard limit deadline - credit: @wlaw_ @0xBoneyBoi 🙏

The Base Ecosystem Fund is funding founders building global finance onchain. A few areas we're excited about: • Tokenised assets and yield • Stablecoins for emerging markets • Onchain credit • Prediction markets • 24/7 FX and institutional markets • Agentic commerce And plenty we haven't imagined yet. Applications are open.

Base is for quality assets, serious teams. When we TGE’ed, it took us a month to set up audited contracts with multisig wallets. Now with launchpad, it takes a few mins to launch a venture-backed token. Single-sided Uniswap v4 launches with permanently locked liquidity, and tokens born admin-less: no mint, no pause, no seize. What B20 makes possible: - Tokens minted through the B20 precompile factory, fully set up in one tx - On-chain referrals with a referral fee share on every trade - Trade comments emitted on-chain — a native super-chat feed per token - Verifiable creator announcements, no token role required - Socials and metadata stored on-chain in the token itself - Team allocations minted at creation with on-chain staircase vesting - Vanity token addresses on the fixed 0xB20f prefix - Anti-snipe fair-launch window: fees decay from 99% to 1%. - Gasless approvals via native permit - Simple burns, no rebase games

Awesome to see @base community members shipping. @QuigleyNFT building @helixaxyz @rbthreek vibe coding a smart wallet trading app @0FJAKE podcasting with @rish_neynar @MrDegenWolf building the White Wolf community Links below. Not investment advice.

In anticipation of B20s on @base mainnet, I wanted to highlight a useful tool for devs: tl;dr: standard Foundry can't simulate Base precompiles; eg, the B20 Factory, Policy Registry. base-anvil is a fork of Foundry specifically for Base, so if you're already accustomed to this toolkit as an eth dev, you'll feel right at home. More info in the docs:

Blocks are being produced normally, and we have verified widespread recovery in the ecosystem. Any remaining stuck Base nodes will recover upon restart and syncing. The team has found the root cause for this halt and we’ll share a full post mortem based on our learnings and fixes as a top priority.