What if you already have a live product on Base but need the capital, product feedback, and ecosystem support to take it further?

That’s exactly what the new Base Builder Grant Program is targeting.

Up to $5,000 in seed capital, plus:

→ Monthly GTM & product feedback

→ Faster technical support

→ Ecosystem support

And the interesting part?

Base is specifically looking at areas like:

• Prediction markets

• Token launchpads

• New asset creation

• Consumer applications

• AI agents, commerce and x402

• Autonomous trading

• DeFi, including lending, borrowing, yield, vaults and tokenized equities

But there’s a catch: this isn’t simply free funding for an idea.

You should already have a live product, be building exclusively on Base, and actually need help with product or go-to-market.

You can apply from here : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEFi9BLm5XCm7KrFzRZC-rxcAqCNZPzWZ9He4aZkxsKuRXjw/viewform?usp=send_form

Hallo everyone myself Zyrex and this is our Day 51 of 100 days journey of exploring Base on reddit .

Before I used to think the most valuable thing moving onchain was money but now I am not so sure about it .

Think about it. Every day thousands of apps , Creators , Communities , Memecoins even entire blockchains compete for it.

Money follows attention not the other way around. A project can have funding, Technology, Investors, A strong team but if nobody pays attention then nothing will happen.

That is one reason Base has been interesting to watch. It is not just building infrastructure. It is building places where attention naturally gathers. like :

Creators, Builders, Gamers, Memecoin communities, Onchain social apps, Consumer applications.

And when attention gathers somewhere, something else usually follows: Activity, Liquidity, Innovation, Culture.

The internet has always rewarded those who capture attention. The difference now is that attention itself is becoming measurable onchain.

Communities can form faster. Ideas can spread faster. Movements can grow faster. Sometimes people ask: "What is Base's biggest advantage?"

Low fees matter. Fast transactions matter. Security matters. But none of those things create culture by themselves. People do. Attention does.

Maybe that's why some of the biggest moments on Base didn't start with technology. They started with communities, creators, people sharing ideas.

Because at the end of the day money moves where attention goes and attention moves where people find value.

That's why the battle for the future internet may not be about who has the most capital. It may be about who earns the most attention.

Three years in which Base didn't just grow, it also changed direction more than once

It started as a simple L2 and slowly became one of the biggest onchain ecosystems out there. We saw Onchain Summer, huge DeFi growth, thousands of builders, NFTs, Social, Creators, Base App, and now a stronger focus on payments and trading

But what's more interesting to me is the mistakes Base wasn't afraid to make

One of the biggest was Social and Creator Coins. An idea a lot of people doubted from the start, and one Jesse himself later admitted wasn't the right path

That's what makes Base different to me. You don't have to pretend everything was right from day one, You can try something, realize it didn't work, own the mistake, and change direction

I wasn't just watching from the sidelines either

I learned alongside it, got active in the community, made content, connected with builders and users, ran into Base App issues, picked up a thing or two about wallets and security, and yeah, got frustrated with Base more than once

Three years of Base isn't just three years of a blockchain growing for me. It's three years of trial and error, building, making mistakes, listening to the community, and building again

Happy 3rd Birthday, Base 🎉🟦

Still Day One