Base Unveils 2026 Strategy: Focus on Tokenization Market, Stablecoins, and Developers

BlockBeats News, March 31, according to CoinDesk, Coinbase's L2 network Base has announced its 2026 strategy, which will focus on three main areas: tokenized markets, stablecoin payments, and developer ecosystem, with the goal of building the "global on-chain economy."

On the market side, Base plans to build infrastructure to support tokenized versions of assets such as stocks and commodities, while also covering native crypto markets like perpetual swaps and prediction markets, and aims to improve settlement speed, reduce costs, and develop the Base App into a trading venue for various asset classes. On the payment side, Base will prioritize stablecoins, plan to introduce privacy features, support fee payments in stablecoins, and enhance multi-currency stablecoin liquidity, while integrating financial functions such as savings and lending in the app. On the developer side, Base stated that it will continue to invest in plans like Base Batches and introduce new tools, including support for AI applications interacting with on-chain markets, as well as planning to introduce new standards and incentive mechanisms to increase user engagement and trading volume.

The background of this strategic release is Base's gradual move away from reliance on Optimism's OP Stack. In February of this year, the Coinbase team announced that Base will increasingly rely on self-developed internal code to gain greater independence in technical architecture. Base was opened to the public in August 2023 and is one of the most widely used layer 2 networks in the Ethereum ecosystem.