Getting Started with Base: The Only 1-Stop Resource You Will Ever Need

Base, a Layer 2 solution built on the OP Stack and incubated by Coinbase, is rapidly becoming a go-to platform for developers looking to build scalable and efficient dApps.

Whether you're an experienced blockchain developer or just getting started, this guide will walk you through everything you need to know to start building on Base.

Base offers a secure, low-cost, and developer-friendly environment that integrates seamlessly with Ethereum and Optimism. With a robust ecosystem, deep liquidity, and support from Coinbase, Base provides the ideal environment to deploy smart contracts, create dApps, and innovate in the Web3 space.

Before diving into development, it's crucial to familiarize yourself with the essential resources available:

Official Links

• Base.org – Official Base website.
• Base Blog – Updates, technical insights, and announcements.
• Base Bridge – Bridge assets to Base.
• Base Status – Check real-time network status.
• Base X (Twitter) – Follow for updates and community discussions.

Developer Resources

• Base GitHub – Open-source contributions and repositories.
• Base Quests – Hands-on challenges to level up your Base development skills.
• Base Guild – Connect with other Base builders.
• Base Discord – Join the developer community.
• Base Farcaster – Participate in decentralized social discussions.

1. Setting Up a Base Node

Running a node allows you to interact with the Base network without relying on third-party RPC providers. Learn how to set up your own node with this step-by-step guide or watch the video tutorial.

2. Deploying a Smart Contract on Base

Base is fully EVM-compatible, so deploying a smart contract is similar to deploying one on Ethereum.

• Follow this whimsical guide to deploy your first smart contract.
• Watch this video tutorial for a hands-on demonstration.

3. Building & Launching a Token on Base

If you're interested in launching your own token, check out:

• How to launch a token on Base

4. Developing a dApp on Base

Base provides a robust platform to build dApps efficiently.

• Read this in-depth guide on smart contract development.
• Watch the how-to video for a live demo.

5. Accessing Real-World Data with Chainlink on Base

Many dApps require real-world data feeds. Here’s how to integrate Chainlink with Base:

• Guide to Chainlink Data Feeds on Base

Node Providers

Understanding node providers is essential for developers who don’t want to run their own infrastructure.

• Explore node providers on Base

Blockchain Explorers

Navigating and analyzing transactions on Base is crucial for debugging and monitoring.

• Guide to Blockchain Explorers on Base

Base is built using the OP Stack, which plays a key role in decentralization and scalability. Learn more about:

• Decentralizing Base with OP Stack & Optimism
• A Technical Deep Dive into Base Scalability

Frames allow developers to enhance user experiences on Base. Learn more:

• Watch the tutorial on Building Frames

If you are someone who loves to build stuff, you must check out these bootcamps & hackathons:

• Base Bootcamp
• Base Onchain Summer
• Superhack 2023/2024
• ETHOnline 2023/2024
• ETHGlobal New York

Whether you're swapping tokens, interacting with dApps, or building cross-chain applications, the right bridge makes all the difference.

Here are some of the top bridges making cross-chain interoperability on Base a reality:

• Across Protocol: Across Protocol is a leading cross-chain token bridge that is secured by UMA's optimistic oracle. It is optimized for capital efficiency with a single liquidity pool, a competitive relayer landscape, and a no-slippage fee model. You can expect secure, fast and affordable cross-chain token transfers with Across.
• Axelar: Axelar delivers secure interchain communication. That means dApp users can interact with any asset, any application, on any chain, with one click. You can think of it as Stripe for Web3.
• Bungee: Bungee integrates bridges & DEXs to help you find the best route across 13+ chains.
• Celer Network: Celer Network is a blockchain interoperability protocol that allows users to seamlessly access a diverse range of tokens, DeFi protocols, GameFi applications, NFT marketplaces, and more across multiple blockchains with just one click.
• Hop Protocol: A protocol for sending tokens across rollups and their shared layer-1 network in a quick and trustless manner.
• LayerZero: LayerZero is the leading blockchain messaging protocol. LayerZero's advanced messaging infrastructure seamlessly connects over 30 blockchains and facilitates transparent and secure cross-chain messaging from one easy-to-use interface.
• Socket: Socket is an interoperability protocols which allows seamless asset & data transfer across chains, enabling developers to build truly cross-chain apps.
• Stargate Finance: Stargate is a fully composable liquidity transport protocol that lives at the heart of Omnichain DeFi.
• TBTC: tBTC is a decentralized, permissionless, and scalable Bitcoin equivalent that allows users to access the Ethereum and the cross chain DeFi ecosystem. Each tBTC token is fully backed by 1 BTC held in reserve.
• Wormhole: Wormhole is a generic cross-chain message-passing protocol that gives developers the power to build decentralized applications that span the rapidly evolving blockchain ecosystem.
• deBridge: deBridge is an infrastructure for high performance interoperability. By removing the bottlenecks and risks of liquidity pools, deBridge enables DeFi applications to scale faster with ultra capital-efficient and deep liquidity transfers across chains.

DAOs are community-driven organizations governed by smart contracts, enabling collective decision-making without centralized authority.

Whether it's managing treasuries, funding projects, or coordinating decentralized ecosystems, DAOs empower users to participate in governance seamlessly.

• Aragon Project: Aragon builds flexible and secure tools that enable anyone to launch and manage Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). In 2016, Aragon built the first DAO framework, which has since powered the creation of over 6000 DAOs and secured over 13B in value for leading projects like Lido, Decentraland, API3, Aavegotchi and NFTX.
• Prophouse: Prop House is public infrastructure by Nouns DAO that helps internet communities incentivize ecosystem development.
• XDAO: XDAO is a versatile tool that empowers individuals and teams to effortlessly create a DAO.

DeFi protocols remove traditional barriers to finance, offering permissionless lending, borrowing, trading, and yield generation.

From automated market makers (AMMs) to cross-chain liquidity networks, DeFi is revolutionizing access to financial tools globally.

Check out these defi apps that support Base:

• 0x: Your one stop shop to build financial products on crypto rails. Enable faster trading, better prices and superior UX in your app.
• Aave: Aave Protocol is a non-custodial liquidity protocol. Users can participate as suppliers, borrowers, or liquidators, earning interest on supplied assets and borrowing in an overcollateralized manner.
• Ankr: Build on Web3 with a fast, reliable and distributed network of blockchain nodes.
• Balancer: Balancer is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) protocol built on Ethereum that represents a flexible building block for programmable liquidity.
• Beefy: Beefy automates yield farming to make DeFi easy, safe and efficient for all. By autocompounding your tokens, Beefy unlocks higher returns so you earn more of what you love.
• Bridge: APIs to move into, out of, and between any form of a dollar.
• Compound: The Compound Protocol is one of the first decentralized finance applications to let users earn interest on their digital assets, or borrow using digital assets as collateral.
• DODO: DODO is a decentralized trading platform that uses the innovative Proactive Market Maker (PMM) algorithm to provide efficient onchain liquidity for Web3 assets, making it easy for everyone to issue and trade these assets.
• Extra Finance: Extra Finance is a leveraged yield strategy & lending protocol.
• Harvest Finance: Taking advantage of the yield opportunities in DeFi can be a costly process in terms of time, risk and gas costs. Harvest Finance does the hard work of scouring the fields of DeFi for the best and safest yields, brings them to a single UX, and saves you a ton on gas fees with it's autocompounding feature. See the best yields that DeFi has to offer, set your crypto to work and let Harvest handle the rest!
• Maverick Protocol: Maverick Protocol is eliminating inefficiency from DeFi by helping users put liquidity where it can do the most work. Backed by Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, etc.
• Mean Finance: Mean Finance is the go-to platform for decentralized investment tools that will empower you in the journey to responsible and diversified investing in the emerging crypto asset thesis.
• Moonwell: Moonwell is an open and permissionless lending and borrowing DeFi protocol.
• Odos: Odos traverses a large universe of possible token swap combinations and non-linear paths delivering greater savings to its users. Swap one or multiple tokens in a single atomic transaction.
• Omni Network: The Omni Network is a layer 1 blockchain that empowers developers to build global applications across all rollups. This is achieved securely by restaking $ETH through EigenLayer.
• Panoptic: Panoptic re-imagines options to work onchain: options have no expiry and require no oracles, intermediaries, counterparties, or order books. The result is a permissionless, governance-minimized protocol with no liquidity fragmentation.
• Pike: Pike is a Universal Liquidity Protocol, it is designed to unleash utility for native crypto assets by aggregating liquidity across blockchain networks.
• PoolTogether: PoolTogether is a prize savings protocol that makes saving fun! Deposit into PoolTogether vaults to be eligible to win prizes every day. Prizes are generated by the yield on deposits, and you can deposit all kinds of tokens!
• Sablier: Sablier is a token streaming protocol that enables by-the-second payments in web3. DAOs and businesses use it for vesting, payroll, airdrops, and more.
• SushiSwap: Sushi is a leading multi-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) deployed across 25+ chains and featuring unique cross-chain swaps via SushiXSwap. Focusing on seamless user experiences, innovative trading, and enhanced liquidity provisions, Sushi is committed to being a community-built, open-source ecosystem of all the DeFi tools you need.
• Truflation: Truflation is revolutionizing financial insights with real-time, unbiased economic data through a decentralized onchain oracle.
• Uniswap: The Uniswap Protocol is the largest decentralized exchange with over $1.6T in trading volume. Uniswap Labs builds products that let you buy, sell, and use your self custodied digital assets in a safe, simple, and secure way.
• Volmex: Volmex’s BVIV and EVIV Indices measure the 30-day expected volatility of Bitcoin and Ethereum respectively. Volmex builds a suite of products around the Volmex Implied Volatility Indices, specifically perpetual futures.
• rhino.fi: Unlock secure, self-custodial DeFi with rhino.fi - The Layer 2 DeFi aggregator. Explore 500+ tokens across 9 chains. Bridge, swap, stake, farm all in one place.

Who doesn't like gaming?

Play these games on Base:

• Animoca Brands: Animoca Brands and its various subsidiaries develop and publish a broad portfolio of blockchain games, traditional games, and other products.
• AppliedPrimate: AppliedPrimate Megaforce Sentinel Collectible Card Game is an onchain PVP game featuring AppliedPrimate Sentinel NFTs that was designed under advisement from Richard Garfield, creator of MAGIC: THE GATHERING.
• ChainSafe Gaming: We empower creators. From digital collectibles to in-game assets, incentive mechanisms, and everything in between, change how your players own, create, and get rewarded with ChainSafe Gaming.
• ETHLas: Ethlas engineers the future of gaming. The company builds games and infrastructure tools, unlocking the next level of Web3 experiences. They make Web3 more accessible and safe for both users and companies.
• Faraway: Faraway is an open economy dev studio and game publisher specializing in blockchain-enabled games including Mini Royale: Nations, Serum City, and more.
• Game7: We are the voice at the forefront of the industry turning Web3 technology into tangible, real-world solutions for gaming. By supporting open-source software, diversity, education, and events we rally behind a core mission to solve Web3 gaming problems.
• GangstaVerse: GangstaVerse is a multi-chain RPG that combines digital art and web3 game ecosystem. GangWar is a semi-passive simulation-based game where gangsters and detectives fight to establish power in the city.
• Go-Go-Glover: "Dive into the Glover universe in a thrilling endless runner! Dodge obstacles, collect magic crystals, and relive the N64 magic on mobile!"
• Iskra: Iskra offers an all-in-one web3 game platform that rewards players and developers through a unique community system. We believe that on-boarding the next generation of web3 users will be driven by engaging games that demonstrate the true value of digital ownership.
• Landtorn: LandTorn is a platform hosting BASE native games. Play, compete, trade and win. Initially powered by multiple games around the TORN IP and NFT system.
• Monkeyleague: MonkeyLeague is a mobile soccer game that requires the strategic thinking of a general manager, a coach's tactical game plan, and a soccer player's skills.
• Parallel: Parallel is a vast sci-fi universe with five factions battling for home. Assemble a deck and take the fight to Earth.
• Photo Finish™ LIVE: Fulfill your lifelong fantasy of winning the Kentucky Derby! Experience the thrill of owning a race horse without any of the hassle.
• Pixelmon: Building the First Truly Decentralized IP starting with a Multiplayer Open World Adventure and Monster Combat Arena.
• Snaky Cat: Control a unique feline with a snake-like body, feast on food to stretch and grow. Outmaneuver other cats, seize their remains, become the longest cat and slither up the leaderboard, scoring purr-ecious tokens!
• Words3: Compete for ETH in a new crossword-style game... where every move is onchain!
• Yield Guild Games: Yield Guild Games (YGG) is the world’s first and biggest web3 gaming guild where players can enrich themselves as they find their community, discover games and level up together.

Infrastructure projects are the unsung heroes of any blockchain ecosystem, providing the essential tools, networks, and services that make dApps and DeFi protocols possible.

On Base, these infra companies handle everything from node infrastructure and data indexing to cross-chain connectivity and smart contract automation, ensuring seamless performance and scalability.

Let’s take a look at the key infrastructure players building the foundation for Base

• 0xSplits: Splits is a set of simple, modular smart contracts for safe and efficient onchain payments. You can split revenue from NFT sales, recoup expenses, diversify an income stream, withhold taxes, and much more.
• 1rpc: 1RPC is a private RPC relay that eradicates metadata exposure and leakage, allowing users to gain control of their interactions with the blockchain with a one-click user experience.
• Amberdata: Amberdata delivers comprehensive digital asset data and insights into blockchain networks, crypto markets, and decentralized finance, empowering financial institutions with critical data for research, trading, risk, analytics, reporting, and compliance.
• Biconomy: Biconomy brings blockchain-agnostic, web2-like experiences to dApps in a non-custodial manner with our comprehensive software development kit which is built on top of ERC4337 and designed specifically for decentralized applications (dApps).
• Blast by Bware Labs: Blast is a decentralized API platform with best-in-class response times and availability. It leverages the power of hundreds of node providers and advanced routing algorithms for unmatched service quality!
• Blockdaemon: The institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure for Web3. Blockdaemon provides an end-to-end suite of blockchain tools, including dedicated nodes, APIs, staking, liquid staking, MPC tech, and more.
• Blocknative: Blocknative’s Web3 Onboard is an open-source library that enables dapps to easily connect 40+ wallets, preview transactions, deliver real-time notifications, and more through a great developer UX.
• Blockscout: Blockscout is a comprehensive open-source tool for viewing blockchain data, including transactions, addresses, and contracts. Plus, it offers easy-to-use APIs.
• Chainlink: Chainlink is the industry-standard Web3 services platform connecting the people, businesses, and data of today with the Web3 world of tomorrow.
• Cielo: The most powerful onchain wallet tracking platform. Retail, degens, investors, and onchain researchers all use Cielo to better understand the blockchain. Track up to 250 wallets for free.
• Coinbase Commerce: Learn how to securely accept Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies with Coinbase Commerce. Get started in minutes.
• Coinbase Prime: Coinbase Prime is a full-service prime brokerage platform with everything that institutions need to execute trades and custody assets at scale.
• Coinbase WaaS: The most user-friendly way to onboard your customers to web3.
• Covalent: Covalent's industry-leading Unified API brings visibility to billions of data points across 100+ blockchains for developers building multi-chain applications.
• DIA: DIA redefines oracles on 30+ L1/L2s: Fully customizable, unmet asset coverage 100% transparent. Enabling new primitives for DeFi, NFTfi, and GameFi.
• DeForm: DeForm is the most beautiful and easiest to use web3 form builder. Get verified wallet addresses, onchain data lookups, Twitter/Discord/Telegram accounts, and talk to your community!
• Debank: The Web3-native messenger & the best Web3 portfolio tracker that covers all your tokens, DeFi protocols, NFTs across all EVM chains.
• DefiLlama: DefiLlama is the largest TVL aggregator for DeFi (Decentralized Finance). We are fully open-source and our focus is on accurate data and transparent methodology.
• Etherscan: Etherscan is the leading block explorer and search, API & analytics platform for EVM compatible blockchains, with the mission of providing equitable access to blockchain data.
• Fireblocks: Fireblocks provides a suite of applications to manage digital asset operations and a complete development platform to build your business on the blockchain.
• Flipside: Builders, investors an analysts can unlock Web3 success with Flipside's trusted blockchain data and expert insights. Grow with governance, acquisition tools, business intelligence and analytics.
• Gauntlet: Since 2018, Gauntlet has managed risk for leading DeFi protocols. Our risk platform quantifies risk and runs economic stress tests. In 2021, Gauntlet launched a new team (Applied Research) that works with protocols on crypto-economic quantitative analysis, modeling, and optimization projects. Finally, in 2022, Gauntlet spun out Aera, a treasury management protocol to optimize DAO funds autonomously and onchain.
• Goldsky: Web3's Realtime Data Platform.
• Helika: Helika is a full-stack blockchain analytics company focusing on integrated onchain, off-chain and social data to provide gaming studios and brands with powerful self-serve analytics to help better understand users, increase engagement, improve retention and drive growth.
• Mnemonic: Build exceptional Web3 experiences faster with Mnemonic – the NFT data, analytics, and insights provider for builders, brands, and enterprises creating in Web3.
• Nansen: Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform that enriches onchain data with millions of wallet labels. Crypto investors use Nansen to discover opportunities, perform due diligence and defend their portfolios with our real-time dashboards and alerts.
• Neptune Mutual: Neptune Mutual is a DeFi insurance protocol. Our parametric cover marketplace enables you to purchase cover policies to protect your digital assets from security and custody risks.
• OpenCover: OpenCover makes it easy and affordable to cover your portfolio against onchain risks such as smart contract exploits and oracle failures.
• OpenZeppelin Defender: The secure smart contract automation platform for developers. Ship Web3 technology faster, safer, and with confidence using OpenZeppelin Defender.
• Pyth Network: Pyth delivers real-time market data feeds to 20+ blockchains by sourcing from exchanges, market makers, and trading firms. 150+ DeFi apps trust and rely on Pyth to stay competitive.
• Quicknode: As the leading end-to-end web3 developer platform, QuickNode is transforming blockchain infrastructure and tooling by simplifying web3 development and providing high-performance access to 24+ blockchains. Since 2017, QuickNode has empowered hundreds of thousands of top developers and companies to focus on innovation by accelerating dApp build times and offering enterprise-grade solutions to businesses of every size.
• RedStone: RedStone offers flexible Data Feeds with <10s update time perfect for Lending, Perpetuals, Options, Derivatives and other sophisticated DeFi Apps. Securing hundreds of millions of USD on mainnets.
• Satsuma: Save months of development time with our hosted subgraph indexing. Instead of focusing on backend development and devops, write a subgraph in < 1 hr and get a custom GraphQL API for your dApp.
• Spearbit: Spearbit is a global distributed network of industry-leading security experts that offer web3 security review and consulting services. Spearbit operates as a web3 smart contract security solutions firm with clients such as Polygon, OpenSea, Gauntlet, Optimism and many other mission-critical protocols across the web3 landscape.
• Superfluid: Superfluid is the industry-leading revolutionary asset streaming protocol that brings real-time subscriptions, salaries, vesting, and rewards to DAOs and crypto-native businesses worldwide.
• Syndicate: Syndicate is a platform that allows customers to create communities, products, and experiences onchain at enterprise scale.
• Tenderly: Tenderly delivers a full-stack infrastructure solution for every step of the dapp development lifecycle. We enable teams to focus on their product by providing them with all necessary infrastructure and tooling for fast and reliable dapp development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• The Graph: The Graph is the indexing and query layer of web3. Developers build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, that applications can query using GraphQL. The Graph currently supports indexing data from over 40 different networks including Ethereum, NEAR, Arbitrum, Optimism, ZkSync, Polygon, Avalanche, Celo, Fantom, Moonbeam, IPFS, Cosmos Hub and PoA with more networks coming soon. To date, 88,900+ subgraphs have been deployed on the hosted service. Tens of thousands of developers use The Graph for applications such as Uniswap, Synthetix, KnownOrigin, Art Blocks, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, DAOstack, Audius, Decentraland, and many others.
• ThirdWeb: thirdweb is a complete web3 development framework that provides everything you need to build, launch, and manage web3 apps. We provide dev tools (SDKs in common languages, plug-and-play UI components, ContractKit) and fully managed infrastructure services (storage, RPC nodes, onchain analytics, and more) to enable you to go-to-market faster.
• Umbrella: Decentralized oracle with an extensive range of data solutions. Real-time, scalable and customizable data. Umbrella provides tailored solutions for specific needs.
• WalletConnect: WalletConnect was founded with the mission to connect wallets and dapps, and the scope of our ambition has erupted along with the ecosystem. Today, WalletConnect is the communications protocol connecting web3, as we focus on assembling a messaging layer with our SDKs that enable authentication, push notifications, and wallet messaging. Our infrastructure and tools help developers build apps and expand experiences for the millions - and soon, billions - of users exploring the fast-growing world of web3.
• XMTP: A decentralized communication protocol for secure and private messaging.
• Zapper: Zapper is a social web3 explorer which allows users to follow the blockchain journey of other people in NFTs, DeFi and DAOs. Our mission to make the blockchain readable and accessible to everyone.

Base is home to a growing NFT ecosystem, where creators and collectors can mint, trade, and interact with digital assets seamlessly.

With low fees and fast transactions, Base provides the perfect environment for NFTs to thrive.

• Anotherblock: anotherblock is empowering the emotional and financial connection between creators and consumers. Collectors own future streaming royalties of high-end tracks and earn royalties when they stream.
• Bonfire: Bonfire is a no-code website builder and community platform for web3 creators. Bonfire’s toolkit lets creators design custom drops, and offer fans exclusive content and gated experiences on their own branded website.
• Crossmint: Enterprise-grade infrastructure to build NFT use cases accessible to everyone. Including NFT wallets-as-a-service, minting, payments, and token-gating APIs.
• Decent: Cross-chain transactions, meet one-tap payments. Serve customers of every stripe with The Box, empowering them with automatic swaps, built‑in bridging, and seamless secondary sales.
• Guild: Guild is an automation platform for onboarding Web3 communities, it can identify NFT holders, active developers, social media influencers and any other custom categories of community members based on their Guild account.
• Highlight: Highlight is a platform for making art and culture on the blockchain.
• Indelible Labs: We are making onchain NFT collections easy and affordable to create.
• Manifold: Manifold Studio allows you to build your own personalized web3 creative platform and sell digital goods(NFTs). The tools allow for the highest level of provenance and complete control of your work.
• Mint.fun: The fastest, safest, and most rewarding way to mint all the top new NFT projects.
• Nouns Builder: Governed by BuilderDAO, Nouns Builder is a tool lets you create Nounish DAOs easily. Build and empower your community with onchain governance and treasury.
• OpenSea: OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for NFTs, rare digital items, and crypto collectibles. Buy, sell, auction, and discover rare digital art, blockchain game items, and more.
• Reservoir: The most powerful tools to build buying & selling into your app - access NFT data, create, store, and fill NFT orders.
• Showtime: Showtime lets creators share exclusive updates to their fans. Fans access never-seen-before content and earn a digital collectible they can showcase on Showtime and elsewhere.
• Unlock Protocol: Unlock is an open-source, collectively owned, community-governed, peer-to-peer system that creates time-based memberships.
• Zora: ZORA is a universal media registry protocol. It’s a way for creators to publish creative media, earn money on their work, and have others build and share what they create.

Bridging the gap between traditional finance and crypto, onramps on Base make it easy to convert fiat into digital assets.

These services ensure a smooth, user-friendly experience for anyone entering the Web3 space.

• Coinbase Pay: Let your users buy or transfer digital assets with the most trusted name in crypto.
• Moso: Shop online at one of the 2,500 supported Moso stores and earn the crypto of your choice!
• Onboard: The simplest and most secure self-custody wallet to convert digital assets to local currency in minutes and spend your crypto anytime, anywhere.
• Onramp Money: Onramp.money is a convenient & secure way to convert your FIAT to Web3 money in <60s! We allow your users to buy & sell digital assets with lowest processing fees. Onramp.money can be easily integrated with your global decentralized application (dApp) to smoothly onboard users to purchase multiple digital assets across chains.
• Privy: Privy is a simple library to onboard all your users to web3, with embedded wallets for web3 newcomers, reliable connectors for web3 natives, and powerful user management.
• Transak: Transak is a global web3 payment and onboarding infrastructure provider, facilitating seamless transitions between traditional finance and crypto assets.

Decentralized social platforms on Base empower users to connect, share, and engage without intermediaries.

Built on-chain, these platforms prioritize ownership, transparency, and censorship resistance.

• Blackbird: Blackbird is a loyalty and membership platform built for the world's most exciting restaurants.
• CyberConnect: CyberConnect creates long-lasting onchain connections through the power of its network. Developers use its protocol to build innovative social applications where users own their identities and data, while creators can grow their audiences in a fairer, more direct, and decentralized environment.
• FWB: Friends With Benefits (FWB) is a community of builders, creatives, and investors who believe in the power of social tokens and the communities they create.
• Galxe: Galxe is the leading platform for building web3 community. With over 11 million active users to date, Galxe has propelled the growth of Optimism, Polygon, Arbitrum, and more than 2800 partners with reward-based loyalty programs.
• Layer3: Discover the world of crypto like never before with Layer3. Our interactive Quests make learning and exploring web3 fun, engaging, and rewarding.
• Mirror: Built on web3 for web3, Mirror’s robust publishing platform pushes the boundaries of writing online—whether it’s the next big white paper or a weekly community update.
• OAK: OAK is a community currency for the People of Oakland.
• Tally: Tally powers the largest DAOs in the Ethereum ecosystem. With Tally, you can decentralize your Protocol, project, L2 and more. Build on Tally for a robust decentralized ecosystem of tooling.

Secure and intuitive wallets are essential for managing assets on Base.

Whether self-custodial or smart contract-based, these wallets provide users with seamless access to DeFi, NFTs, and dApps on the network.

• Beam: Beam is a self-custody payments wallet for the mainstream — no download or signup required. It's the easiest way on the planet to send money. Beam works with USDC and ECO (eco.com).
• Brave: Brave is on a mission to protect your privacy online. We make a suite of internet privacy tools—including our browser and search engine—that shield you from the ads, trackers, and other creepy stuff trying to follow you across the web.
• Coinbase: Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing cryptocurrency.
• Coinbase Wallet: The easiest and most secure crypto wallet and dapp browser. Your gateway to the decentralized web.
• Exodus: Exodus lets users secure, manage, and swap cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, & more across 10,000+ asset pairs from a beautiful, easy-to-use wallet. Available for desktop, mobile, and browser.
• Frame: System-wide web3 wallet for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Seamlessly access your web3 accounts from any browser, command-line, or native dapp.
• Rabby Wallet: The game-changing wallet for Ethereum and all EVM chains.
• Rainbow Wallet: Rainbow is a fun, simple, and secure way to get started with crypto and explore the new world of Ethereum. You can use Rainbow to purchase, manage, and display Ethereum-based assets.
• Safe Wallet: Safe is the most trusted platform to manage digital assets on Ethereum.
• Sequence: Sequence is the all-in-one developer platform + smart wallet that makes building web3 games and applications easy.
• Trust Wallet: Trust Wallet is a multi-chain, self-custody wallet with 60M+ users. Supporting 70+ chains & 8M+ digital assets; you can manage crypto & NFTs, explore DeFi and connect to dApps safely & securely.

Base is a powerful Layer 2 solution that enables developers to build scalable and efficient Web3 applications.

Whether you're deploying a smart contract, setting up a node, or integrating real-world data, Base has a wealth of resources to help you succeed.

By leveraging the official documentation, video tutorials, and community support, you can quickly start building on Base and take advantage of its low-cost, high-performance infrastructure.

Join the Base ecosystem today and start innovating!