• How SocialFi, memecoins and AI pushed Base to the top of the L2 ladder Base rode SocialFi, memecoins and AI agents to the top of Ethereum’s layer-2 ladder before turning inward to rebuild its core stack. • Cointelegraph in your social feed Base will transition to a unified, internally maintained stack, expected to be its biggest architectural shift since launch. • After debuting in 2023 as a rollup built on Optimism’s OP Stack, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer 2 is nowconsolidating its softwareinto an in-house distribution, which can unlock faster upgrades and greater autonomy over its technical roadmap. • It has been exactly three years since Baselaunchedits testnet. • The network has experienced SocialFi explosions and ridden its own memecoin wave. • It even went through a phase that both fascinated and unnerved Crypto Twitter as AI agents began transacting on its chain.
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- Base, Coinbase’s Ethereum layer‑2 rollup, is shifting to a unified, internally maintained stack-its largest architectural change since launch. After a 2023 debut on Optimism’s OP Stack, Base’s “Onchain Summer” saw a 700,000‑user surge and a brief social‑finance boom with Friend.tech, which briefly eclipsed Bitcoin in daily fees before fading. The network then rode a memecoin wave, deploying over 380,000 ERC‑20 tokens in March 2024 and surpassing Ethereum in active addresses by June. In late 2024, AI agents began transacting on Base, with Coinbase’s “Based Agents” toolkit enabling autonomous wallets and smart‑contract interactions. The transition aims to unlock faster upgrades and greater technical autonomy.
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