Base announces 2026 strategy: focusing on tokenization markets, stablecoins, and developers

Mars Finance News: On March 31, according to CoinDesk, Coinbase’s L2 network Base released its 2026 strategy, to be driven forward around three key areas: the tokenized asset market, stablecoin payments, and a developer ecosystem. The goal is to build a “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 including perpetual futures and prediction markets. It aims to improve settlement speed, reduce costs, and turn the Base App into a trading venue for multiple asset types.

On the payments side, Base will prioritize stablecoins. It plans to roll out privacy features, enable paying trading fees with stablecoins, and expand the liquidity of multi-currency stablecoins. It will also integrate financial functions such as savings and lending within the app.

On the developer side, Base says it will continue investing in initiatives such as Base Batches, and launch new tools, including support for how AI applications interact with on-chain markets. It also plans to introduce new standards and incentive mechanisms to boost user activity and trading volume.

The backdrop to this strategy release is that Base is gradually moving away from its dependence on Optimism’s OP Stack. In February this year, the Coinbase team announced that Base will increasingly rely on internally developed code in order to achieve greater independence in its technical architecture. Base opened to the public in August 2023 and is one of the most widely used layer-2 networks in the Ethereum ecosystem.