This Week on Base: Base Batches 004, Venice, and more
News
■ Base Batches 004 is live! We're looking for 10 early-stage teams to build the future of global finance on Base, offering each team up to $100K in funding, 8 weeks of mentorship, and a Demo Day in NYC. Applications close September 9.
■ Base reached +$5B in Total Value Locked in DeFi. Source: DeFiLlama.
■ Base is now the largest stablecoin card chain, with monthly spend volume outpacing every other network according to Paymentscan data.
■ AI agents drove 14 million transfers via the x402 protocol over the past 30 days, with Base leading at 7.3 million. Source: Token Terminal.
■ Base reaches $2.5 billion USDC deposited across 16 venues. @morpho Blue accounts for $2.1 billion of that total. Source: Token Terminal.
■ Base was present at @CoinfestAsia in Bali and hosted a Base Founders dinner with APAC top builders.
■ @askvenice has crossed $100 million in annualized revenue.
■ @blockrunai has surpassed 1 million x402 transactions per day on Base.
■ @o1_exchange launchpad has reached $200 million in total trading volume on Base, with over 25,000 tokens created and more than $1 million in creator fees distributed.
■ @opal_dex will migrate its token on Base within the next two weeks.
Launches
■ @travalacom partnered with AWS to integrate Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments into the Travel MCP, enabling simpler agentic hotel bookings with USDC on Base.
■ @zaruniversal launched ZARU, a rand-backed stablecoin for instant onchain settlements, now live on Base.
■ @forevermoney_ai announced the Bittensor ecosystem on Base, connected via Chainlink CCIP to bring decentralized AI infrastructure onchain.
■ @veildotcash Multi-Asset Pool is now live on Base, supporting private deposits of tokens.
■ @o1_exchange staking is now live on the Launchpad on Base.
■ @tenorfinance Maturities now land on the last Friday of every month, minimizing fragmentation and making it the fixed-rate venue with the deepest liquidity on Morpho.
■ @forecastfdn introduced a new way to trade BTC and other assets on prediction market rails with perps efficiency, offering true leverage with no debt and no liquidations.
■ @longshotxyz is launching Culture Markets on Base.
■ @feeldotcash is officially live on Base as a launchpad, backed by Coinbase Ventures.
■ @sportfun partnered with Patrice Evra.
■ @megapot integration drove a 300% increase in new user signups for BlinkCashX, distributing 1,400 tickets and generating over $20K in deposits.
■ @bc1beat introduced DSH-ClawRouter, an open-source router for DeepSeek AI Harness.
■ @ax1vc AX1 Console is now live in public beta as the agentic activities launchpad on Base, with 0% agent fees for the first 72 hours.
■ @poidhxyz boosted a Farcaster seasons 1 & 2 catch-up bounty with $50 in Base ETH for the best “Previously on Farcaster…” video.
■ @usdctofiat launched Tokensto, a tool to sell spare AI tokens and cash out P2P to apps like Revolut or Zelle via USDC.
■ @rwagmicom wraps up testing B20 stock pairs on Base Sepolia. The next step is to activate contracts once onchain liquidity is mature.
■ @useazza hits $1.05M lifetime transaction volume on Base.
■ @blockforecasthq launches a new market for 2026 football league predictions.
■ @blockradarhq processes their first $1B in transaction volume.
■ @capyfi_protocol launched a reward campaign for users of wARS, the Argentinian peso onchain.
■ @axisrobotics just launched their Spanish-speaking focused community @axisenespanol.