BASE ECOSYSTEM

COINBASE’S BASE: The Ultimate Guide to Ethereum’s Top Layer-2 (2025)

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If you want to go gem hunting in the Ethereum universe, then Base is the place to be. It’s got more developers funding and projects than you can shake a stick at. And you know what that means? Yep, opportunity is everywhere.

Now, in order to try and find that next 100x you need to know all about the chain and how it works, and today we’re going to show you all that and more.

What is Base and Why Should I Care?

In this guide, you’ll learn everything you need to know to navigate bass like a pro and seize all those opportunities. But before we begin, what exactly is bass, what makes it special, and why should we care? Well, for those unfamiliar, Base was built by top crypto exchange, Coinbase, and is Ethereum top Layer-2 by what measure I hear you ask, lots of them actually.

Let’s start with TVL, or total value locked. This refers to the sum value in us, dollars of all the crypto locked in protocols on a particular chain. Now, the last time we…