Base aims to revolutionize the global economy, focusing on innovation, creativity, and freedom. The vision is clear: to build an infrastructure capable of connecting the world through a new digital economy, where every individual can participate, create, and exchange value without borders.
In 2025, Base laid the groundwork for this transformation, concentrating on five fundamental pillars: builders, applications, ownership, markets, and the goal of bringing everyone onchain.
Achievements: Numbers and Milestones
Over the past year, Base has processed over 17 trillion dollars in stablecoin volume, operating in 26 local currencies and 17 countries. The platform has established itself as the leading onchain venue for spot trading of bitcoin, solidifying its position as an industry leader.
The launch of the Base App has enabled it to reach users in more than 140 countries, while over 50 teams have been funded through the Base Batches program, fostering the emergence of new crypto-native markets among creators, prediction markets, perpetuals, and other innovations.
The New Paradigm: Global Finance is Transforming
From the experience gained, one certainty emerges: the current phase of the crypto-economy represents a true upgrade of the financial system. Stablecoins are becoming a form of global, fast, and accessible money, used by hundreds of millions of people. Any asset — stocks, currencies, forecasts, protocol tokens, art, startup equity — can now be tokenized, traded, and built by anyone, anywhere, and at any time.
Prediction markets allow users to “put their money where their mouth is” on their beliefs, while AI agents are discovering these markets as their native environment, actively participating in the creation and exchange of value.
2026: the three strategic directions
Looking towards 2026, Base focuses its strategy on three main pillars:
- Building global markets
- Scaling payments and stablecoins
- Become the home for builders
Building Global Markets
The goal is ambitious: every asset on earth will be onchain and every market will operate 24/7. Base aims to be the trusted infrastructure where any asset can be tokenized, every market can be traded, and anyone can participate.
To achieve this milestone, Base is working on:
- Chain upgrade for markets: market infrastructures specifically built at the chain level, new ERC standards for smart accounts and tokens, and scalability solutions to ensure settlement in less than a second at costs below a cent.
- Bring every asset and market onto Base: stocks, commodities, and all major asset classes, in every possible market structure — from native issuance to tokenization, from prediction markets to perpetuals and spot.
- Make Base App the trusted place for trading: millions of assets tradable 24/7, the ability to discover trends through suggestions from friends and top traders, and tools for growing your wealth.
Scaling Payments and Stablecoins
Stablecoins are becoming the true “money layer” of the internet. With a volume of 17 trillion dollars managed just in the last year, Base is committed to making payments with stablecoins instant, low-cost, private, and available everywhere.
Key actions include:
- Chain upgrade for payments: introduction of privacy primitives, native account abstraction, and gas payments in stablecoins, along with protocol-level support for memos, policies, and rewards.
- Create the most liquid markets for stablecoins: high-quality stablecoins for every global currency, with easily accessible liquidity for trading, borrowing, and lending.
- Make Base App the simplest way to manage your money: the ability to earn yield on USDC, spend it anywhere, and borrow against your assets.
Being the Home of Builders
The growth of the global economy depends on the ability of builders to create new apps and markets, generating demand and fueling the virtuous cycle of innovation. In 2026, Base aims to offer systems that help every builder — human or agent — to spin this “flywheel” ever faster.
The main initiatives are:
- Chain upgrade for agents: native smart accounts for agents, documentation and CLI+MCP access, standards like x402 to enable agents to operate with money quickly, easily, and securely.
- Growth of the builders’ community: programs like Base Batches, builders’ advice, and ecosystems that help top teams find support, funding, and build scalable businesses.
- Measure, incentivize, and grow the economy: tools such as ERC-8021 builder codes, analytics dashboards, liquidity incentives, and growth programs that reward those who bring in new users and volume.
A Shared Vision: Building the Future Together
Base has always believed in the importance of building transparently, sharing its goals, and listening to the community to evolve together. The global economy belongs to everyone, and the challenge is to make it accessible, innovative, and inclusive.
Base’s 2026 strategy represents a decisive step towards this future, where every individual can be a protagonist of a new economic era, without barriers and with infinite possibilities.
Base invites everyone to participate in this transformation, because the success of this new economy will be the result of a collective effort. The world is changing, and Base aims to be the engine of this onchain revolution.
Source: https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2026/03/31/base-looks-to-the-future-the-2026-strategy-for-a-new-global-onchain-economy/
