Coinbase’s Base community has launched a consumer interface (UI) for its official bridge, permitting finish customers to onboard for the primary time with out counting on developer instruments, in response to an Aug. 3 announcement. The crew has set Aug. 9 as Base’s “official” launch date. The crew will award over 100 Ether (ETH), price roughly $184,000, in grants to builders and content material creators as a part of a month-long launch occasion referred to as the “Onchain Summer season.”
Base is now open for bridging
Base opens for every thing on August 9
We’re serving to throw an onchain pageant to rejoice
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— Base ️ (@BuildOnBase) August 3, 2023
The Base mainnet launched for builders on July 13, nevertheless it lacked a functioning UI for its bridge from Ethereum. On the time, the one method to make use of the community was to make use of command-line developer instruments to bridge ETH from Ethereum’s layer 1.
Within the Aug. 3 announcement, the crew mentioned the bridge UI is now working. Finish customers can begin utilizing the community instantly with out ready for the official launch; nevertheless, a few of Base’s preliminary Web3 apps is probably not out there till the official launch on Aug. 9.
The consumer interface for Base community’s Ethereum bridge. Supply: Base
The crew additionally introduced a month-long “Onchain Summer season” celebration. Every day, builders will “be bringing you one thing enjoyable to do onchain, highlighting artwork, music, gaming, advocacy, and extra,” the announcement said. The crew will award ETH grants to people or teams that create Base-related web sites, artwork and movies or who deploy new protocols to the community between Aug. 9 and Sept. 13. The crew will hand out Base-related nonfungible tokens and ETH to customers who bridge to the community or full instructional “quests.”
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Some buyers misplaced tens of millions of {dollars} price of crypto on Base whereas making an attempt to make use of it when it was “launched for builders” and never publicly out there. The Pond0x (PNDX) memecoin was launched for Base on July 28, and tech-savvy buyers who knew how one can bridge with no UI poured over $2 million into the undertaking, solely to have the token collapse to close zero in value as a bug in its switch operate was discovered. One other Base memecoin, Bald (BALD), resulted in losses of roughly $1.9 million when the developer pulled liquidity from the change it was trading on.