Base App Goes Live Across 140+ Countries as Coinbase Pushes Social Trading Toward the Mainstream

Coinbase-backed Base App launches globally, rolling out a social-first crypto platform that blends trading, payments and earning into a single onchain experience designed to push blockchain tools to mainstream users across more than 140 countries.

Coinbase Accelerates Consumer Crypto Adoption as Base App Exits Waitlist and Scales Worldwide

The expansion of consumer crypto platforms continues as new applications move beyond niche audiences. Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling network and on-chain ecosystem incubated by Coinbase Global Inc. (Nasdaq: COIN), opened access to the Base App on Dec. 17, making it available in more than 140 countries with a focus on social, trading, payments, and earning.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong shared his view of the rollout on social media platform X on Dec. 17, writing:

The Base app had about 1.5M people on the waitlist. Now it’s live in 140+ countries. Time to start baseposting!

His comments coincided with the company’s broader effort to merge social interaction and financial activity into a single onchain product aimed at mainstream users. Built on open protocols such as Zora and Farcaster, the app enables users to discover creators, monitor trending tokens, and follow trading activity from other participants in real time while executing trades directly from the social feed through simplified actions intended to reduce complexity. The announcement states: “The Base App is an everything app that brings together social, trading, payments, app discovery, and earning into one place.”

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Base further described its economic design by emphasizing tokenization as a foundational principle. The announcement states:

It’s built on a very simple new reality: In the app, everything is tokenized and tradable — protocols, apps, creators, posts and more — and it’s all directly valued in the free, open market.

“By putting value directly into your hands, we’re creating a market where everyone shares in the upside and traders can back the next generation of builders and creators,” the announcement adds.

Beyond trading, the Base App supports earning through content engagement, encrypted messaging with friends and AI agents, and access to games and decentralized finance tools without leaving the app. Creator coins establish direct economic relationships between creators and their communities, with earnings flowing instantly to wallets rather than through delayed advertising models. Base also highlighted integrations that allow creators to import content from other platforms and introduced a limited-time USDC rewards pool for new and active users, reinforcing its goal of expanding participation in an open, global, onchain economy.

FAQ ⏰

• What is the Base App launched by Coinbase?

The Base App is an onchain platform combining social, trading, payments and earning in one crypto-focused application.

• How many countries can access the Base App?

The Base App is available to users in more than 140 countries worldwide.

• What blockchain does the Base App run on?

The Base App is built on Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 network incubated by Coinbase.

• How do creators earn money on the Base App?

Creators earn instantly through tokenized content and creator coins paid directly to wallets.