Overview
- Base, which published its 2026 roadmap Tuesday, confirmed a move off Optimism’s OP Stack toward Coinbase-managed code to gain scale and control.
- The plan expands onchain markets by building rails for tokenized equities and commodities and by backing crypto-native venues like perpetuals and prediction markets.
- Base will position its app as a single place to trade many tokenized instruments, targeting sub-second, near-zero-cost settlement with new token and smart-account standards.
- Stablecoin payments take center stage with privacy upgrades, stablecoin-denominated fees and native account abstraction to support instant, low-cost transfers across currencies.
- Coinbase cites 2025 traction — more than $17 trillion in stablecoin volume across 26 currencies in 17 countries and over 50 teams funded — as it grows tools for developers and AI agents.