Coinbase’s Base launches mainnet for builders, will onboard users in August
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Coinbase’s Base mainnet is now “open for builders,” according to a July 13 blog post from the network’s development team. The team is
The team is allowing builders to mint a “Base is for builders” commemorative nonfungible token (NFT) in honor of the event, and is also giving away a “Genesis Builder NFT” to any developer that deploys their contracts to the network and fills out a form on the project’s website.
Optimism Labs, creator of the OP Stack, has claimed that Base and Optimism will eventually form a “Superchain” of multiple networks that share the same security features. The Superchain will likely face competition from zkSync’s “Hyperchains,” which are being developed to have many of the same features as the Superchain.
