📄 @base weekly recap What happened on @base this week NEWS ■ @base announced Cobalt is coming in September, bringing sponsored transactions, batch calls, and session keys through native account abstraction. ■ @baseapp is giving 50% off swap fees on the top 10 trending tokens across Base, Solana, and Robinhood Chain for the next two weeks. ■ @jessepollak shared that better smart accounts are coming to @base. ■ The Base Ecosystem Fund has backed 30+ teams rebuilding finance onchain. Focus areas include tokenized assets and yield, stablecoins for emerging markets, onchain credit, prediction markets, 24/7 FX and institutional markets, and agentic commerce. Applications are open. ■ @coinbase added direct SUI staking, with rewards accumulating straight to user accounts. ■ @coinbase launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium with BlackRock, Fidelity, Block and others to help support long-term Bitcoin network security. ■ @CoinbaseMarkets launched its Markets dashboard with market data, new listings, top gainers and customizable views. ■ @coinbase said it won its lawsuit to expose what it described as a secret attempt to restrict crypto in America. ■ @coinbase is powering USDC as initial margin for US-regulated futures and options through Marex, giving traders 24/7 stablecoin collateral access. STATS ■ Base has crossed $15B in TVL this year, according to @token2049. ■ Total number of x402 transactions on Base hit 154M. ■ @Zyfai_ grew from $3.2M to $6.1M AUM on Base in three weeks and is now managing 4.5M USDC, 10.5 cbBTC and 420 ETH through automated risk monitoring, exits, rebalancing and compounding. ■ @KAIO_xyz and @Mubadala Capital launched tokenized access to a private market strategy with around $75M in onchain TVL across Base, Solana and Sui. ■ @OmenX_Official crossed $1.4B+ in all-time trading volume on Base. ■ @AskSurplus flipped Base App in transaction count over the last 28 days. ■ @upshot_cards sold out its Hungarian GP packs in less than 24 hours. ■ @bankrbot reward season is live with 250M $BNKR and around $80K in LLM credits over 90 days. The first Bankr drop distributed 19,326,923 $BNKR and $1,130 in LLM credits across 509 wallets. ■ Bankr’s rebuilt launch curve reached a $53M peak when replaying past launch flows, compared to $8M on the old curve. ■ @gitlawb rebuilt its Playground build harness with Kiln, cutting size from 21MB to 33KB and boot time from 60s to 19ms. ■ @AskVenice announced up to $100K in awards for Lumara Film Festival in collaboration with @MoonPay.