TLDR: Base is a global onchain economy and we’re building it together, in the open. This year, we’re focusing on growing the Base economy by investing in five key pillars: builders, apps, ownership, markets, and bringing everyone, everywhere, onchain. We have a plan — but we can only achieve our ambitious goals by building with all of you. As we collaborate and grow, our strategies will continue to evolve to better serve the Base economy.

Our mission

Our mission is to build a global onchain economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom. A new internet, built by the people, for the people.

Success looks like the whole world onchain — millions of builders and billions of people — and the only way we get there is by connecting people, builders, and businesses. By inviting the world to build alongside us and building in the open, we’re creating a new kind of internet that supports an open, thriving economy for everyone.

One of the biggest pieces of feedback we consistently hear is that it’s still too hard to join this new economy. This year, we’re focused on simplifying the message, making the products just work, and bringing the whole world onchain.

Our big, hairy, audacious goals for 2025

To bring a billion people onchain, we have to work hard and push ourselves beyond our comfort zones. If we’re hitting every milestone we set, we’re not aiming high enough. So, as we enter 2025, we set some big, hairy, audacious goals that both excite and scare us:

• 25 million people

• 25 thousand developers

• 250 Mgas/s blockspace capacity

• $100 billion assets on platform

• 1 billion transactions on Base in October

When we look back at the end of this year, we’ll know we’re on track if we reached for these goals and they challenged us to go above and beyond. With a bit of luck and a lot of determination, we have a shot at achieving them.

Our five strategic pillars for 2025

To achieve these goals, in 2025, we need to work together. And that means focusing our collective efforts on things that accelerate each other and help us be stronger, together. To help keep us all rowing in the same direction, we want to pull back the curtain and share what the Base core team is doing to make it happen. Our hope is that this inspires you to build with us.

#1 Base is for builders

We will build powerful and open tools that enable anyone to build world-class onchain apps. Whether you’re an advanced onchain developer, a web2 convert, or a total beginner, we want to enable you to build and make an impact.

1. Double down on OnchainKit and the building blocks for world-class apps

2. Ship new tools to help builders embrace AI agents and mini-apps

3. Enable gasless experiences and scale with Paymasters and L3s

#2 Base is for apps

We will nurture a vibrant ecosystem of connected, open onchain apps that grow the number of people using Base. More apps translate to more concrete reasons for every single person to get onchain.

1. Help apps, builders, and creators go viral by giving them more distribution

2. Build new tools to help creators earn more, tell the story of onchain, and grow

3. Make core onchain experiences across social, trading, payments, and messaging

#3 Base is for ownership

We will create a powerful onchain account with seamless funding, identity, and management. We’ll continue our work on Smart Wallet to eliminate complexity for developers and users, make apps just work, and put control back in your hands.

1. New user onboarding in <60s (with funding!) without creating siloed accounts

2. Make apps just work without popups or compromising user sovereignty

3. Enable users to easily leverage their full identity and assets in a secure, private way

#4 Base is for markets

We will make Base the center of the onchain economy with highly liquid, always-on, global capital markets. The more assets and liquidity we bring to Base, the faster the entire financial world will come onchain.

1. Bring Coinbase onchain and grow the number of assets on Base

2. Support 25+ local currency stablecoins to enable every country to come onchain

3. Enable on and offramps in every country around the world

#5 Base is for everyone

We will decentralize, scale, and accelerate Base to enable everyone, everywhere to come onchain. The only way we can build a truly global economy is by making sure it’s built on a decentralized, open platform — and we are proud to do this as part of Ethereum and the Superchain.

1. Achieve Stage 1 decentralization

2. Scale Base’s blockspace capacity to 250 Mgas/s

3. Speed up blocktimes and drive down fees to deliver <1s, <1¢ transactions

These five strategic pillars are what the Base team is focused on today — and we’re building and learning every day. As we do, we’ll continue to evolve our plans and together we’ll bring the world onchain.

How we build in a based way

At the end of the day, it’s not just about what we do in 2025 — it’s also about how we do it. And in 2025, we’re going to stay based. This means:

1. Doing the right thing

2. Working hard

3. Staying optimistic

4. Pushing boundaries with creativity

5. Putting the team over the individual

If all of us can build in a based way, we’ll be able to go faster and further.

The rest is up to us

We’ve shared the Base mission and strategy and how the Base core team is contributing to make it happen. But at the end of the day, we can only succeed if all Base builders step up to make it happen. We win, together.

Are you ready to build alongside us?

Join us on X, Farcaster, and Discord to get building — and follow the Base team and Base community leaders to stay up to day with the Base economy as it grows.