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📲 Base Enters a New Era: The App That Could Onboard the World
At "A New Day One," Base didn’t just launch a rebrand. It launched a movement.
The event, led by Base creator Jesse Pollak and Coinbase CEO and co-founder Brian Armstrong, was a rally cry for a new internet—one where social networks are open, creators own their work, and crypto actually works for everyone. What they revealed wasn’t just sleek design or a product drop. It was the blueprint for crypto’s next chapter: accessible, social, programmable, and built for the masses.
Let’s break down the highlights 👇
Social is no longer a bolt-on. It’s the foundation.
The new Base App feels like a feed, chat, wallet, and app store all rolled into one. It’s where your group chat meets your portfolio, and every cast, like, or post can unlock value.
“It’s not a financial services business. It’s a software product. And it can launch all over the world from day one.” — Brian Armstrong
For creators, it means your content is immediately liquid. Your fans become co-owners. And your upside isn’t limited by algorithms or ad revenue.
Payments in crypto have long been a mess—slow, expensive, and confusing. But Base Pay changes that.
📲 Base Enters a New Era: The App That Could Onboard the World
At "A New Day One," Base didn’t just launch a rebrand. It launched a movement.
The event, led by Base creator Jesse Pollak and Coinbase CEO and co-founder Brian Armstrong, was a rally cry for a new internet—one where social networks are open, creators own their work, and crypto actually works for everyone. What they revealed wasn’t just sleek design or a product drop. It was the blueprint for crypto’s next chapter: accessible, social, programmable, and built for the masses.
Let’s break down the highlights 👇
Social is no longer a bolt-on. It’s the foundation.
The new Base App feels like a feed, chat, wallet, and app store all rolled into one. It’s where your group chat meets your portfolio, and every cast, like, or post can unlock value.
“It’s not a financial services business. It’s a software product. And it can launch all over the world from day one.” — Brian Armstrong
For creators, it means your content is immediately liquid. Your fans become co-owners. And your upside isn’t limited by algorithms or ad revenue.
Payments in crypto have long been a mess—slow, expensive, and confusing. But Base Pay changes that.
"We didn’t want to just make a good crypto payment experience. We wanted to make the best payments experience anywhere.” — Alex Danco, Product Director at Shopify
Even better? Merchants can opt to keep USDC or convert to local currency—no extra fees, no headaches. And for buyers? Base Pay will offer 1% cash back in the U.S. for anyone who pays with USDC. Base Pay doesn't just make payments easy—they're rewarding.
The Base App isn’t just a wallet—it’s an operating system for the onchain economy.
From games and prediction markets to AI agents and creator tools, mini apps are built directly into the app experience. No app store gatekeeping. No downloads. Just tap and go.
These aren’t gimmicks. They’re viral, multiplayer, and monetizable. Remix, Noice, and Decentralized Pictures showed what’s possible—playable feeds, microtips for content, and community-powered filmmaking.
“We started with text, then images, then video. Now it’s apps. This is the next language of the internet.” — Aneri, Base product lead
Base isn’t trying to do it alone. It’s laying the rails for everyone else to build.
From smart wallets (Base Accounts) to developer SDKs and open APIs, Base has made it dead simple to plug in and build. Identity? Check. Payments? Instant. Distribution? Baked in.
“Every builder in the world becomes the extension of your product and team.” — Chintan, Head of Engineering at Base
The Base App rides on six open layers—ENS, Farcaster, XMTP, Zora, smart wallets, and fast transactions via BaseChain. It’s the most interoperable app crypto’s ever seen.
Whether you’re an artist in LA, a designer in Costa Rica, or a kid in Nigeria posting about farming, the Base App lets you create, share, and earn—without gatekeepers.
“On Base, if you post and get a few likes, you’ll earn a little. If you go viral, you’ll earn a lot.” — Jesse Pollack
No waiting for monetization. No follower thresholds. Just value flowing directly from your community to your wallet.
New brand, new UX, new app. Built social-first, not finance-first.
Mini apps bring a new wave of interactive, viral, and monetizable content.
Base Pay makes USDC checkout seamless—online and soon IRL.
Open dev stack invites anyone to build—and grow—on Base.
The creator economy just got composable.
This isn’t just another crypto wallet. This is crypto’s consumer moment.
Still day one. But it feels like the start of something huge.
Get started with The Base App at https://join.base.app/
Watch the full livestream on X here
Do you like this type of content? Is there a trending topic we should cover, or something you would like to learn more about? Follow us on X and let us know.
"We didn’t want to just make a good crypto payment experience. We wanted to make the best payments experience anywhere.” — Alex Danco, Product Director at Shopify
Even better? Merchants can opt to keep USDC or convert to local currency—no extra fees, no headaches. And for buyers? Base Pay will offer 1% cash back in the U.S. for anyone who pays with USDC. Base Pay doesn't just make payments easy—they're rewarding.
The Base App isn’t just a wallet—it’s an operating system for the onchain economy.
From games and prediction markets to AI agents and creator tools, mini apps are built directly into the app experience. No app store gatekeeping. No downloads. Just tap and go.
These aren’t gimmicks. They’re viral, multiplayer, and monetizable. Remix, Noice, and Decentralized Pictures showed what’s possible—playable feeds, microtips for content, and community-powered filmmaking.
“We started with text, then images, then video. Now it’s apps. This is the next language of the internet.” — Aneri, Base product lead
Base isn’t trying to do it alone. It’s laying the rails for everyone else to build.
From smart wallets (Base Accounts) to developer SDKs and open APIs, Base has made it dead simple to plug in and build. Identity? Check. Payments? Instant. Distribution? Baked in.
“Every builder in the world becomes the extension of your product and team.” — Chintan, Head of Engineering at Base
The Base App rides on six open layers—ENS, Farcaster, XMTP, Zora, smart wallets, and fast transactions via BaseChain. It’s the most interoperable app crypto’s ever seen.
Whether you’re an artist in LA, a designer in Costa Rica, or a kid in Nigeria posting about farming, the Base App lets you create, share, and earn—without gatekeepers.
“On Base, if you post and get a few likes, you’ll earn a little. If you go viral, you’ll earn a lot.” — Jesse Pollack
No waiting for monetization. No follower thresholds. Just value flowing directly from your community to your wallet.
New brand, new UX, new app. Built social-first, not finance-first.
Mini apps bring a new wave of interactive, viral, and monetizable content.
Base Pay makes USDC checkout seamless—online and soon IRL.
Open dev stack invites anyone to build—and grow—on Base.
The creator economy just got composable.
This isn’t just another crypto wallet. This is crypto’s consumer moment.
Still day one. But it feels like the start of something huge.
Get started with The Base App at https://join.base.app/
Watch the full livestream on X here
Do you like this type of content? Is there a trending topic we should cover, or something you would like to learn more about? Follow us on X and let us know.
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Starting to feel like crypto finally gets creators. Joined the Base App waitlist a while ago but still no access 😅 Anyone know how to speed things up? Tips, tricks, secret rituals? 🪄 ✨ Really looking forward to exploring what this new creator-first internet could look like. https://news.cryptosapiens.xyz/crypto-just-had-its-iphone-moment%E2%80%94and-its-called-the-the-base-app
Follow all the base team because they drop alpha all the time.
I think I'm already following all of them, but always got the alpha a bit too late 😅
Iono I saw they were giving out invites here and there I think I just got lucky with an unused code
Just published my recap from the Base event Video coming soon From coining your posts on the Base app, to sending micropayments to friends, to paying for goods irl and earning cash back on your purchases, crypto feels very real—we are now squarely in the consumer crypto era I plan on writing at least one more article with some other insights from this event Let me know if I missed anything, or if you would like to me emphasize on the next one https://news.cryptosapiens.xyz/crypto-just-had-its-iphone-moment%E2%80%94and-its-called-the-the-base-app
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Base's recent launch marks a transformative shift in the crypto landscape, prioritizing accessibility and creation. The Base App integrates online communities with seamless payments and features like mini apps, opening gateways for creators everywhere. Dive into this exciting evolution written by @cryptosapiens.eth.