Yesterday, the roadmap for 2025 of Base, the layer-2 on Ethereum by Coinbase, was published.
This is an ambitious plan, perfectly symbolized by the goal of reaching as much as 100 billion dollars of assets on the platform.
Base: the layer-2 of Coinbase
Base is a layer-2 developed by Coinbase on Ethereum.
It was launched less than two years ago, and it does not have its own token.
Over the past twelve months, it has grown significantly, so much so that its DeFi TVL has increased from 450 million dollars at the beginning of 2024 to the current 3.7 billion. However, the hoped-for 100 billion is still very far away.
Its main characteristic, besides being a decentralized layer-2 on Ethereum, is that it allows very fast and especially very economical transactions.
For example, at this moment the fees for a simple transaction seem to be less than a thousandth of a dollar, which makes Base perfect especially for those who make many transactions.
In fact, it is not a coincidence that several DEX (decentralized exchanges) have been launched on Base, precisely because on the DEX on Base, many transactions can be carried out by paying very low fees.
For example on Aerodrome, the main DEX on Base for TVL, in the last 24 hours alone the total trading volume has been over a billion dollars.
The other major DEX present on Base, Uniswap, in the last 24 hours has exceeded 500 million dollars in trading volumes.
Base: the roadmap of Coinbase’s blockchain
The roadmap of Base for 2025 is definitely ambitious.
The development is based on five strategic pillars (builder, app, properties, markets, and bringing everyone onchain), and it has five major objectives:
- reach 25 million users
- reach 25 thousand developers
- increase the blockspace capacity to 250 Mgas/s
- bring 100 billion dollars of assets onto the platform
- reach the billion transactions in October.
The cinque pilastri
Since the development of Base is based on collective efforts, five pillars have been identified for the development of the project to keep these collective efforts aligned so that everyone is rowing in the same direction.
The first pillar is precisely the developers (builder), for whom new powerful and open tools are planned that will allow anyone to create onchain apps.
In particular, the doubling on OnchainKit and on the basic components is planned, the provision of new tools to help builders adopt AI agents and mini-apps, and the enabling of gasless experiences with Paymasters and L3s.
The second pillar is the apps.
The objective is to create an ecosystem of connected and open onchain apps that increase the number of people using Base.
The third pillar is ownership (ownership).
The idea is to create a powerful onchain account with funds, identity, and seamless management. Work will continue on Smart Wallet, with the goals of attracting new users, making apps work without popups and without compromising user sovereignty, and enabling users to easily leverage their identity and funds in a secure and private way.
The fourth pillar is obviously the markets.
The ambition is to make Base the center of the onchain economy, with highly liquid and always active global capital markets, supporting more than 25 local currency stablecoins to enable every country to operate onchain.
The fifth pillar is to address everyone.
The idea is to decentralize, scale, and accelerate Base in order to allow everyone, everywhere, to operate onchain.
The objectives of Base’s 2025 roadmap
The objectives of the roadmap are defined by Base itself as big, ambitious, and bold.
The long-term idea is to bring one billion people onchain, even if it will be a long process that will go well beyond 2025.
To achieve this, they claim they will have to work hard and push beyond their comfort zones.
They write:
“If we reach every goal we set for ourselves, we are not aiming high enough”.
The main big, ambitious, and bold goals are 25 million users, 25 thousand developers, one billion transactions, 100 billion dollars of assets on the platform, and the block capacity of 250 Mgas/s.
They believe that, with a pinch of luck and a lot of determination, they can have a chance to reach them.
This year the project will focus on the growth of the Base economy, with investments in the five pillars mentioned above, and with a plan that can only be achieved by also building together with independent developers who operate firsthand on the open and decentralized platform.
The mission
The mission of Base is to build a global onchain economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom.
The goal is defined as “a new Internet, built by people, for people”.
To get there, it will take millions of builders and billions of users, and the only way to get there is to connect people, developers, and companies in order to invite the entire world to create in an open and collaborative way.
They admit, however, that one of the major problems is still the difficulty of becoming part of this new economy, and that is why they will also focus on simplifying the message and making the products work.
The plans are really very ambitious, but sooner or later over time it is absolutely possible that someone will achieve them.
Source: https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2025/01/17/coinbase-base-aims-for-one-hundred-billion-dollars/