Base Chain Investment Brief: Coinbase Wallet On-Ramp
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Base held $381.6M in TVL by February 13, 2024. Review Coinbase's OP Stack rollup and its retail on-ramp before allocating capital to the ecosystem now.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Base is an Ethereum layer 2 rollup built by Coinbase on the open source OP Stack. It settles transaction data to Ethereum for security, charges gas in ETH rather than a native token, and is operated by a single Coinbase sequencer during its early rollout phase.
- Base shares its OP Stack codebase with Optimism, so the two networks inherit the same audited contract base and rollup mechanics. Base differs by routing retail flow through Coinbase's exchange and wallet products directly, giving it a distribution channel that unaffiliated rollups do not have.
- Family offices, venture allocators, and sovereign fund managers assessing whether Coinbase's distribution advantage on Base translates into a durable capital allocation thesis, versus a temporary liquidity bump tied to one exchange's user base.
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