Coinbase’s Base focuses on tokenization, stablecoins and expanding its developer base

Base, Coinbase’s Layer 2 network, is reshaping its strategy around the tokenized-asset market, stablecoin payments, and expansion of the developer ecosystem.

According to CoinDesk, a digital-asset (cryptocurrency) news outlet, Base said on the 31st that its 2026 strategy will focus on three pillars: scaling the on-chain market, expanding stablecoin-based payments, and growing the developer ecosystem.

Base is a Layer 2 network running on Ethereum, designed to expand on-chain activity by boosting transaction speed and lowering costs. Recently, it has been gradually moving away from the existing Optimism technology stack and shifting toward a proprietary, infrastructure-centric approach to strengthen independence and scalability.

In tokenization, it plans to build infrastructure to bring traditional assets such as equities and commodities on-chain. Through this, it aims for a structure that supports trading in a wide range of assets—not only existing digital assets—on a single platform.

In payments, it will push upgrades centered on stablecoins. Plans include adding privacy features, introducing stablecoin-based fee structures, and expanding liquidity across multiple currencies, with financial functions such as savings and lending also to be added.

Expanding the developer ecosystem was also presented as a key task. Base plans to bolster related programs and tools and support artificial intelligence (AI)-based applications so they can interface with the on-chain market.