Base in October Activity remained strong DEX volume reached $30.03B, while perps volume stood at $23.16B, growing nearly 4x in a single month. Net inflows were $428M, TVL reached $5.88B and the stablecoin market cap stood at $5.14B Stablecoin transfer volume over the last 30 days was $2.58T User activity showed a similar picture. Monthly active addresses reached 7.2M, with 2.39M new addresses added in October Tokenized stock DEX volume reached $2.5B, up 5.1% Base is also leading in payments. In the latest month, stablecoin card spending settled on Base reached $259M, the highest among all chains In FX spot DEX, Base recorded $412M in volume, accounting for approximately 54% of the total across all chains Lending is active too. Base holds $7.6B in deposits and $2.7B in loans. Over the last 30 days, lending generated $11M in gross interest In October, chain revenue was $2.54M, while app revenue reached $17.8M Agentic payments are still in their early stages. According to x402scan, Base recorded 2.67M transactions and $1.11M in volume over the last 30 days Can i miss anything?

.@o1_exchange has finally gone live with staking What Jerry Pan hinted at is now working. Stake O and you receive wstO, with a 0% deposit/redeem fee TVL is $20.39K on day one, so it's still very early Staking could be an answer to the airdrop concerns, specifically for long-term holders. Let's see if holders actually stake

Over the last 30 days, $Basecat and $DRB have been moving in almost the same rhythm Both dropped after October 12, bottomed out around the 26th and are now trying to recover a bit But there's a big gap in 24-hour volume. "Basecat" did about $2M, while "DRB" did just $287k On @coinbase , volume is about $500k for Basecat and $100k for DRB My question if Basecat's creator has received around $573k in fees, why isn't any of it going into a buyback or a campaign? Hey @grok, you have money, so why not push $DRB ? Do something, guys

You looking to yield farming in @base ? Right now, 2,898 pools on Base offer yield, but only 13 of them have 100m+ TVL. Among these, @Morpho and @aave currently dominate Base's yield sector By pool, "sparkUSDC" (Morpho) has the highest TVL (534m), offering 30 days APY of 4.14%, with 13k holders already and liquidity of 172m "sirloinUSDC" (Morpho) is in 2nd place with 462m TVL. Average monthly APY here is 5.76%, with 55k holders and liquidity of 50m "grove-steakUSDC" (Morpho) has 440m TVL and 30 days APY of 4.70%, but just 175 holders, with liquidity of 182.3m "gtUSDCp" (Morpho) has 405m TVL, 30 days average APY of 4.62%, 46.5k holders and liquidity of 184.5m "aBascbBTC" (Aave v3) has total TVL of 246m, APY of 0.01%, 17k holders and liquidity of 23m "aBasWETH" (Aave v3) has 224m TVL, 30 days APY of 3.29% (bonus) 320k holders and liquidity of 44m "aBasUSDC" (Aave v3) has total TVL of 197.5m, 30 days APY of 5%, 147k holders and liquidity of 21.2m "WETH-USDC" (Uniswap) has total TVL of 158m and supply APY (30 days) of 51.24% "aBascbETH" (Aave v3) has total TVL of 149.5m, 30 days supply APY of 2.29% and 13k holders "steakUSDC" (Morpho) has 147m total TVL, APY of 4.62%, 7k total holders and liquidity of 145m "gtUSDCp" (Morpho) has 137m TVL, 30 days APY of 4.61%, 4.8k holders and liquidity of 137m "steakUSDC" (Morpho) has 114m TVL, APY of 3.44%, 88.3k holders and liquidity of 113.1m "mGLO" (Midas) has total TVL of 103m, APY of 6.44% and just 8 holders Together, these 13 pools hold about 3.32B in total TVL. Morpho alone accounts for about 2.24B (~67%) and Aave about 817m And in the top 7-day flows, "sparkUSDC" saw +124.57m come in, and mGLO saw +52.07m Links to all the pools are below👇

.@base is still leading the FX DEX sector in monthly volume In the first month of 2024, FX volume on Base was just $500K. Last September, it reached $411M, representing an increase of around 822x Base alone now accounts for 54% of the entire sector's market share Solana took the lead in this sector for a few months in 2025. But since June 2025, Base has maintained its dominance Currently, "25+ local currencies" are live on Base. This means coverage has expanded alongside volume, not just a few trading pairs Source: Blockworks

.@base DEX volume over the past 24 hours is $632M, putting it in the top 3 But where that volume is coming from is the interesting part →BTC-USD pair: $90.6M, the highest across all chains →ETH-USD pair: $220M →FX volume: $14.3M, again, Base leads all chains →Tokenized equities: $67.6M But the memecoin sector is even more interesting. Out of Solana’s $2.1B volume, $616M came from memecoins alone. Meanwhile, memecoin volume on Base’s DEX was just $4.3M Base’s volume is coming from BTC, ETH, FX and tokenized assets, not memecoin hype Because while memecoins account for ~29% of Solana’s volume, they make up less than 1% of Base’s volume The two chains are driven by completely different sources of volume Source: @Blockworks

Blockchain is too slow and too expensive A few years ago, this criticism was valid. But not anymore On @base a single transfer now costs a fraction of a cent. Block times are coming down to 200ms, while still retaining Ethereum’s security, speed and low costs The real question is no longer “Is blockchain fast enough?” The question is “Which setup is right for our needs?” Payments, supply chains, and tokenized funds all have different requirements We can now see these use cases happening on Base through tokenized stocks, lending (Aave, Morpho), stablecoin payments, and agent payments (with 138M+ transactions on x402 alone) If your understanding of blockchain was shaped in 2018, it’s time to update it

USDC dominates AI agent payments via x402 Monthly active senders reached 31.5k for USDC on @base, 9K on Algorand & 1.5K on Solana Across all tracked assets & chains, the total is up 147% over the past 30 days to 42.7K https://t.co/FE7GBltQeQ

Block time from 2s → 200ms That means 5 actual canonical blocks per second, not just Flashblocks preconfirmations Solana’s slot time is currently ~217ms. @base is now getting close to that speed while remaining EVM-compatible

.@aave 's Equities Hub launched on @base on September 25, 2026 As of October 20, around $10.37M worth of "tokenized Mag7" stocks has been deposited here. Against this collateral, $4.62M in USDC loans has already been taken And 3 out of every 4 borrowers coming here are new Aave users on Base Currently, total borrows in "Aave’s" core market on Base stand at $374.90M, compared to which the Equities Hub accounts for around 1.2% That means it’s still at a very early stage. New users are coming in, and supply deposits have already started building up