Welcome to Get Onchain with Base— your go-to guide for getting started with Base.
Whether you're a developer, researcher, or just curious about Base, this README has all the resources you need to start building, learning, and engaging with the Base ecosystem.
- Base.org
- Base Blog
- Base Bridge
- Base Discord
- Base Farcaster
- Base GitHub
- Base Guild
- Base Quests
- Base Status
- Base X
- Meet Base
- Decentralizing Base with the OP Stack and Optimism
- Introducing Base Camp: Learn Smart Contract Development At Your Own Pace
- Contributing to the Scalability of Base and the OP Stack: A Technical Deep Dive
- Embracing Optimism with Pessimism
- Build your onchain identity with Basenames
- Deploying Your First Smart Contract on Base: A Whimsical Guide
- Mastering Base: A Step-by-Step Guide to Running Your Own Node
- How To Access Real-World Data on Base with Chainlink Data Feeds
- Inside the Infrastructure: Exploring Node Providers on Base
- Behind the Scenes: Navigating Blockchain Explorers on Base
- How to run a Base node
- Getting started with Base
- How to deploy a contract on Base
- How to launch a token on Base
- How to build a dapp on Base
- An Overview on working on Base
- Build a perfect onchain app on Base
- Building Frames on Base
- Across Protocol: A leading cross-chain token bridge secured by UMA's optimistic oracle. Optimized for capital efficiency with a single liquidity pool, a competitive relayer landscape, and a no-slippage fee model. Expect secure, fast, and affordable cross-chain token transfers.
- Axelar: Enables secure interchain communication, allowing dApp users to interact with any asset, application, or chain with one click—think of it as Stripe for Web3.
- Bungee: Integrates bridges & DEXs to help users find the best route across 13+ chains.
- Celer Network: A blockchain interoperability protocol that allows seamless access to tokens, DeFi protocols, GameFi applications, NFT marketplaces, and more across multiple blockchains.
- Hop Protocol: Facilitates quick and trustless token transfers across rollups and their shared layer-1 network.
- LayerZero: A leading blockchain messaging protocol connecting over 30 blockchains, enabling transparent and secure cross-chain messaging.
- Socket: An interoperability protocol enabling seamless asset and data transfers across chains, allowing developers to build truly cross-chain apps.
- Stargate Finance: A fully composable liquidity transport protocol at the heart of Omnichain DeFi.
- TBTC: A decentralized, permissionless, and scalable Bitcoin equivalent fully backed by 1 BTC, enabling access to Ethereum and cross-chain DeFi ecosystems.
- Wormhole: A generic cross-chain message-passing protocol that allows developers to build decentralized applications spanning multiple blockchains.
- deBridge: A high-performance interoperability infrastructure removing liquidity pool bottlenecks, enabling ultra-capital-efficient and deep liquidity transfers across chains.
- Aragon Project: Builds flexible and secure tools for launching and managing DAOs. Since 2016, Aragon’s framework has powered 6,000+ DAOs securing over $13B in value for projects like Lido, Decentraland, API3, Aavegotchi, and NFTX.
- Prophouse: Public infrastructure by Nouns DAO designed to help internet communities incentivize ecosystem development.
- XDAO: A versatile tool empowering individuals and teams to effortlessly create DAOs.
- 0x: Your one-stop shop to build financial products on crypto rails. Enable faster trading, better prices, and superior UX in your app.
- Aave: Aave Protocol is a non-custodial liquidity protocol. Users can participate as suppliers, borrowers, or liquidators, earning interest on supplied assets and borrowing in an overcollateralized manner.
- Ankr: Build on Web3 with a fast, reliable, and distributed network of blockchain nodes.
- Balancer: A decentralized automated market maker (AMM) protocol built on Ethereum that represents a flexible building block for programmable liquidity.
- Beefy: Beefy automates yield farming to make DeFi easy, safe, and efficient for all. By autocompounding your tokens, Beefy unlocks higher returns so you earn more of what you love.
- Bridge: APIs to move into, out of, and between any form of a dollar.
- Compound: One of the first DeFi applications allowing users to earn interest on digital assets or borrow using digital assets as collateral.
- DODO: A decentralized trading platform using the innovative Proactive Market Maker (PMM) algorithm to provide efficient onchain liquidity for Web3 assets.
- Extra Finance: A leveraged yield strategy & lending protocol.
- Harvest Finance: Harvest Finance scours DeFi for the best and safest yields, bringing them into a single UX while saving users on gas fees with autocompounding.
- Maverick Protocol: Eliminating inefficiency in DeFi by helping users put liquidity where it can do the most work.
- Mean Finance: A platform for decentralized investment tools empowering responsible and diversified investing in crypto.
- Moonwell: An open and permissionless lending and borrowing DeFi protocol.
- Odos: Optimizing token swaps by traversing a vast universe of swap combinations and non-linear paths to deliver greater savings.
- Omni Network: A layer 1 blockchain enabling developers to build global applications across all rollups, secured via $ETH restaking on EigenLayer.
- Panoptic: Reimagining options to work fully onchain with no expiry, no oracles, and no intermediaries.
- Pike: A Universal Liquidity Protocol aggregating liquidity across blockchain networks.
- PoolTogether: A prize savings protocol where deposits generate prizes, making saving fun and rewarding.
- Sablier: A token streaming protocol enabling by-the-second payments for vesting, payroll, airdrops, and more.
- SushiSwap: A leading multi-chain DEX with cross-chain swaps via SushiXSwap, supporting 25+ chains.
- Truflation: Providing real-time, unbiased economic data through a decentralized onchain oracle.
- Uniswap: The largest decentralized exchange with over $1.6T in trading volume.
- Volmex: Offering perpetual futures products based on the Volmex Implied Volatility Indices.
- rhino.fi: A Layer 2 DeFi aggregator unlocking secure, self-custodial DeFi across 9 chains.
- Animoca Brands: Developing and publishing a broad portfolio of blockchain games and digital products.
- AppliedPrimate: An onchain PVP collectible card game designed with input from Richard Garfield, creator of MAGIC: THE GATHERING.
- ChainSafe Gaming: Empowering creators with Web3 gaming infrastructure and incentives.
- ETHLas: Building games and infrastructure tools for next-level Web3 experiences.
- Faraway: A Web3 game studio and publisher behind titles like Mini Royale: Nations and Serum City.
- Game7: Supporting open-source software, diversity, education, and events to solve Web3 gaming challenges.
- GangstaVerse: A multi-chain RPG where gangsters and detectives fight for power.
- Go-Go-Glover: A thrilling endless runner game bringing N64 magic to mobile.
- Iskra: An all-in-one Web3 game platform rewarding both players and developers.
- Landtorn: A BASE-native gaming platform hosting multiple titles within the TORN IP and NFT system.
- Monkeyleague: A strategic mobile soccer game combining management, tactics, and player skills.
- Parallel: A sci-fi universe featuring deck-building battles among five factions.
- Photo Finish™ LIVE: A blockchain-based horse racing game capturing the thrill of the Kentucky Derby.
- Pixelmon: A decentralized IP featuring a multiplayer open-world adventure and monster combat.
- Snaky Cat: A feline twist on the classic snake game, where players compete for purr-ecious tokens.
- Words3: A crossword-style game where every move is onchain, with players competing for ETH.
- Yield Guild Games: The world’s first and biggest Web3 gaming guild, where players discover, play, and level up together.
- 0xSplits: Splits is a set of simple, modular smart contracts for safe and efficient onchain payments. You can split revenue from NFT sales, recoup expenses, diversify an income stream, withhold taxes, and much more.
- 1rpc: 1RPC is a private RPC relay that eradicates metadata exposure and leakage, allowing users to gain control of their interactions with the blockchain with a one-click user experience.
- Amberdata: Amberdata delivers comprehensive digital asset data and insights into blockchain networks, crypto markets, and decentralized finance, empowering financial institutions with critical data for research, trading, risk, analytics, reporting, and compliance.
- Biconomy: Biconomy brings blockchain-agnostic, web2-like experiences to dApps in a non-custodial manner with our comprehensive software development kit which is built on top of ERC4337 and designed specifically for decentralized applications (dApps).
- Blast by Bware Labs: Blast is a decentralized API platform with best-in-class response times and availability. It leverages the power of hundreds of node providers and advanced routing algorithms for unmatched service quality!
- Blockdaemon: The institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure for Web3. Blockdaemon provides an end-to-end suite of blockchain tools, including dedicated nodes, APIs, staking, liquid staking, MPC tech, and more.
- Blocknative: Blocknative’s Web3 Onboard is an open-source library that enables dapps to easily connect 40+ wallets, preview transactions, deliver real-time notifications, and more through a great developer UX.
- Blockscout: Blockscout is a comprehensive open-source tool for viewing blockchain data, including transactions, addresses, and contracts. Plus, it offers easy-to-use APIs.
- Chainlink: Chainlink is the industry-standard Web3 services platform connecting the people, businesses, and data of today with the Web3 world of tomorrow.
- Cielo: The most powerful onchain wallet tracking platform. Retail, degens, investors, and onchain researchers all use Cielo to better understand the blockchain. Track up to 250 wallets for free.
- Coinbase Commerce: Learn how to securely accept Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies with Coinbase Commerce. Get started in minutes.
- Coinbase Prime: Coinbase Prime is a full-service prime brokerage platform with everything that institutions need to execute trades and custody assets at scale.
- Coinbase WaaS: The most user-friendly way to onboard your customers to web3.
- Covalent: Covalent's industry-leading Unified API brings visibility to billions of data points across 100+ blockchains for developers building multi-chain applications.
- DIA: DIA redefines oracles on 30+ L1/L2s: Fully customizable, unmet asset coverage 100% transparent. Enabling new primitives for DeFi, NFTfi, and GameFi.
- DeForm: DeForm is the most beautiful and easiest to use web3 form builder. Get verified wallet addresses, onchain data lookups, Twitter/Discord/Telegram accounts, and talk to your community!
- Debank: The Web3-native messenger & the best Web3 portfolio tracker that covers all your tokens, DeFi protocols, NFTs across all EVM chains.
- DefiLlama: DefiLlama is the largest TVL aggregator for DeFi (Decentralized Finance). We are fully open-source and our focus is on accurate data and transparent methodology.
- Etherscan: Etherscan is the leading block explorer and search, API & analytics platform for EVM compatible blockchains, with the mission of providing equitable access to blockchain data.
- Fireblocks: Fireblocks provides a suite of applications to manage digital asset operations and a complete development platform to build your business on the blockchain.
- Flipside: Builders, investors and analysts can unlock Web3 success with Flipside's trusted blockchain data and expert insights. Grow with governance, acquisition tools, business intelligence and analytics.
- Gauntlet: Since 2018, Gauntlet has managed risk for leading DeFi protocols. Our risk platform quantifies risk and runs economic stress tests.
- Goldsky: Web3's Realtime Data Platform.
- Helika: Helika is a full-stack blockchain analytics company focusing on integrated onchain, off-chain and social data to provide gaming studios and brands with powerful self-serve analytics.
- Mnemonic: Build exceptional Web3 experiences faster with Mnemonic – the NFT data, analytics, and insights provider for builders, brands, and enterprises creating in Web3.
- Nansen: Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform that enriches onchain data with millions of wallet labels.
- Neptune Mutual: Neptune Mutual is a DeFi insurance protocol. Our parametric cover marketplace enables you to purchase cover policies to protect your digital assets from security and custody risks.
- OpenCover: OpenCover makes it easy and affordable to cover your portfolio against onchain risks such as smart contract exploits and oracle failures.
- OpenZeppelin Defender: The secure smart contract automation platform for developers.
- Pyth Network: Pyth delivers real-time market data feeds to 20+ blockchains by sourcing from exchanges, market makers, and trading firms.
- Quicknode: QuickNode is transforming blockchain infrastructure and tooling by simplifying web3 development and providing high-performance access to 24+ blockchains.
- RedStone: RedStone offers flexible Data Feeds with <10s update time perfect for sophisticated DeFi Apps.
- Satsuma: Save months of development time with our hosted subgraph indexing.
- Spearbit: Spearbit is a global distributed network of industry-leading security experts that offer web3 security review and consulting services.
- Superfluid: Superfluid is the industry-leading asset streaming protocol that brings real-time subscriptions, salaries, vesting, and rewards to DAOs and crypto-native businesses worldwide.
- Syndicate: Syndicate is a platform that allows customers to create communities, products, and experiences onchain at enterprise scale.
- Tenderly: Tenderly delivers a full-stack infrastructure solution for every step of the dapp development lifecycle.
- The Graph: The Graph is the indexing and query layer of web3.
- ThirdWeb: Thirdweb is a complete web3 development framework that provides everything you need to build, launch, and manage web3 apps.
- Umbrella: Decentralized oracle with an extensive range of data solutions.
- WalletConnect: WalletConnect is the communications protocol connecting web3.
- XMTP: A decentralized communication protocol for secure and private messaging.
- Zapper: Zapper is a social web3 platform that helps users interact with DeFi and NFT assets in an intuitive way.
- {Anotherblock}[https://anotherblock.io/]: anotherblock is empowering the emotional and financial connection between creators and consumers. Collectors own future streaming royalties of high-end tracks and earn royalties when they stream.
- {Bonfire}[https://www.bonfire.xyz/]: Bonfire is a no-code website builder and community platform for web3 creators. Bonfire’s toolkit lets creators design custom drops, and offer fans exclusive content and gated experiences on their own branded website.
- {Crossmint}[https://crossmint.com/]: Enterprise-grade infrastructure to build NFT use cases accessible to everyone. Including NFT wallets-as-a-service, minting, payments, and token-gating APIs.
- {Decent}[https://decent.xyz/]: Cross-chain transactions, meet one-tap payments. Serve customers of every stripe with The Box, empowering them with automatic swaps, built‑in bridging, and seamless secondary sales.
- {Guild}[https://guild.xyz/]: Guild is an automation platform for onboarding Web3 communities, it can identify NFT holders, active developers, social media influencers and any other custom categories of community members based on their Guild account.
- {Highlight}[https://www.highlight.xyz/]: Highlight is a platform for making art and culture on the blockchain.
- {Indelible Labs}[https://indelible.xyz/]: We are making onchain NFT collections easy and affordable to create.
- {Manifold}[https://studio.manifold.xyz/]: Manifold Studio allows you to build your own personalized web3 creative platform and sell digital goods (NFTs). The tools allow for the highest level of provenance and complete control of your work.
- {Mint.fun}[https://mint.fun/feed/trending]: The fastest, safest, and most rewarding way to mint all the top new NFT projects.
- {Nouns Builder}[https://nouns.build/]: Governed by BuilderDAO, Nouns Builder is a tool lets you create Nounish DAOs easily. Build and empower your community with onchain governance and treasury.
- {OpenSea}[https://opensea.io/]: OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for NFTs, rare digital items, and crypto collectibles. Buy, sell, auction, and discover rare digital art, blockchain game items, and more.
- {Reservoir}[https://reservoir.tools/]: The most powerful tools to build buying & selling into your app - access NFT data, create, store, and fill NFT orders.
- {Showtime}[https://showtime.xyz/]: Showtime lets creators share exclusive updates to their fans. Fans access never-seen-before content and earn a digital collectible they can showcase on Showtime and elsewhere.
- {Unlock Protocol}[https://unlock-protocol.com/]: Unlock is an open-source, collectively owned, community-governed, peer-to-peer system that creates time-based memberships.
- {Zora}[https://zora.co/]: ZORA is a universal media registry protocol. It’s a way for creators to publish creative media, earn money on their work, and have others build and share what they create.
- {Coinbase Pay}[https://www.coinbase.com/cloud/products/pay-sdk]: Let your users buy or transfer digital assets with the most trusted name in crypto.
- {Moso}[https://moso.xyz/]: Shop online at one of the 2,500 supported Moso stores and earn the crypto of your choice!
- {Onboard}[https://onboard.xyz/]: The simplest and most secure self-custody wallet to convert digital assets to local currency in minutes and spend your crypto anytime, anywhere.
- {Onramp Money}[https://onramp.money/]: Onramp.money is a convenient & secure way to convert your FIAT to Web3 money in <60s! We allow your users to buy & sell digital assets with lowest processing fees. Onramp.money can be easily integrated with your global decentralized application (dApp) to smoothly onboard users to purchase multiple digital assets across chains.
- {Privy}[https://www.privy.io/]: Privy is a simple library to onboard all your users to web3, with embedded wallets for web3 newcomers, reliable connectors for web3 natives, and powerful user management.
- {Transak}[https://transak.com/]: Transak is a global web3 payment and onboarding infrastructure provider, facilitating seamless transitions between traditional finance and crypto assets.
- {Blackbird}[https://blackbird.xyz/]: Blackbird is a loyalty and membership platform built for the world's most exciting restaurants.
- {CyberConnect}[https://cyberconnect.me/]: CyberConnect creates long-lasting onchain connections through the power of its network. Developers use its protocol to build innovative social applications where users own their identities and data, while creators can grow their audiences in a fairer, more direct, and decentralized environment.
- {FWB}[https://fest.fwb.help/]: Friends With Benefits (FWB) is a community of builders, creatives, and investors who believe in the power of social tokens and the communities they create.
- {Galxe}[https://galxe.com/]: Galxe is the leading platform for building web3 community. With over 11 million active users to date, Galxe has propelled the growth of Optimism, Polygon, Arbitrum, and more than 2800 partners with reward-based loyalty programs.
- {Layer3}[https://layer3.xyz/]: Discover the world of crypto like never before with Layer3. Our interactive Quests make learning and exploring web3 fun, engaging, and rewarding.
- {Mirror}[https://www.mirror.xyz/]: Built on web3 for web3, Mirror’s robust publishing platform pushes the boundaries of writing online—whether it’s the next big white paper or a weekly community update.
- {OAK}[https://oak.community/]: OAK is a community currency for the People of Oakland.
- {Tally}[https://www.tally.xyz/]: Tally powers the largest DAOs in the Ethereum ecosystem. With Tally, you can decentralize your Protocol, project, L2 and more. Build on Tally for a robust decentralized ecosystem of tooling.
- {Beam}[https://beam.eco/]: Beam is a self-custody payments wallet for the mainstream — no download or signup required. It's the easiest way on the planet to send money. Beam works with USDC and ECO (eco.com).
- {Brave}[https://brave.com/]: Brave is on a mission to protect your privacy online. We make a suite of internet privacy tools—including our browser and search engine—that shield you from the ads, trackers, and other creepy stuff trying to follow you across the web.
- {Coinbase}[https://www.coinbase.com/]: Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing cryptocurrency.
- {Coinbase Wallet}[https://www.coinbase.com/wallet]: The easiest and most secure crypto wallet and dapp browser. Your gateway to the decentralized web.
- {Exodus}[https://www.exodus.com/]: Exodus lets users secure, manage, and swap cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, & more across 10,000+ asset pairs from a beautiful, easy-to-use wallet. Available for desktop, mobile, and browser.
- {Frame}[https://frame.sh/]: System-wide web3 wallet for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Seamlessly access your web3 accounts from any browser, command-line, or native dapp.
- {Rabby Wallet}[https://rabby.io/]: The game-changing wallet for Ethereum and all EVM chains.
- {Rainbow Wallet}[https://rainbow.me/]: Rainbow is a fun, simple, and secure way to get started with crypto and explore the new world of Ethereum. You can use Rainbow to purchase, manage, and display Ethereum-based assets.
- {Safe Wallet}[https://safe.global/]: Safe is the most trusted platform to manage digital assets on Ethereum.
- {Sequence}[https://sequence.xyz/]: Sequence is the all-in-one developer platform + smart wallet that makes building web3 games and applications easy.
- {Trust Wallet}[https://trustwallet.com/]: Trust Wallet is a multi-chain, self-custody wallet with 60M+ users. Supporting 70+ chains & 8M+ digital assets; you can manage crypto & NFTs, explore DeFi and connect to dApps safely & securely.
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