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@base Update: May 12, 2026 Base Azul is LIVE Tomorrow The Onchain Flywheel is Spinning Faster Than Ever 🚀
Hey Base fam! Good morning from the onchain frontier. We’re just 24 hours away from one of the biggest upgrades in Base history, and the entire ecosystem is buzzing. From record-breaking TVL and stablecoin volume to builders shipping at lightspeed and our clearest 2026 vision yet here’s the full picture of where we stand and where we’re headed. Let’s break it down 👇
1/ Base Azul Drops Tomorrow Sub-Second Finality is Here
Tomorrow, May 13, Base Azul goes live on mainnet.
This isn’t just another upgrade it’s the moment we unlock the performance layer the entire industry has been waiting for:
- True sub-second finality
- Gas fees consistently under 0.0001 ETH
- 10x capacity for high-throughput apps
- Native support for agentic smart accounts at scale
Every builder, every trader, every AI agent on Base is about to feel the difference. If you’ve been waiting to deploy that high-frequency trading bot, onchain game, or real-time social app tomorrow is your green light.
2/ Growth Numbers That Speak for Themselves
- Bridged TVL: $14.2B (new all-time high)
- DeFi TVL: $4.8B and climbing fast
- Stablecoin transfer volume last 30 days: $128M
- Daily active addresses: consistently over 1.2M
- Onchain payments volume in Q2 so far: already beating Q1’s $100M pace
We’re not just growing we’re becoming the default home for real economic activity. USDC, EURC, and now CADD (the regulated Canadian dollar stablecoin) are all thriving here, giving users and agents actual usable money onchain in multiple currencies.
3/ Base App
@baseapp Your Global Onchain Wallet Just Got Even Better
Base App is now available in 142 countries and just shipped a major update:
- One-tap stablecoin payments with gas sponsored by USDC
- Built-in yield vaults that auto-compound
- Agent mode: let your AI handle recurring payments, rebalancing, and even small trades while you sleep
The “new chair” icon is still undefeated 😉 Which one are you using?
4/ 2026 Roadmap Three Pillars, One Mission
We said it in March and we’re executing: Build a global economy that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom.
Here’s the latest on execution:
Global Markets → Tokenized equities, commodities, and prediction markets are live and growing. Base App is becoming the 24/7 trading terminal for everything.
Payments & Stablecoins → Privacy features in testnet, stablecoin-native gas abstraction rolling out with Azul, and protocol-level rewards for liquidity providers.
Home for Builders → Base Batches funding rounds are fully open, x402 standard is gaining massive adoption, and the new Builder Council just approved the first wave of ERC-8021 grants. AI agents can now deploy their own smart accounts natively no human required.
5/ Real Builders, Real Wins
Shoutout to the teams shipping right now:
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@retrimentum &
@upshot_cards turning prediction markets into beautiful digital trading cards
- Aerodrome hitting new liquidity records
- Multiple AI agent teams quietly launching autonomous onchain businesses this week
- Social experiments and tokenized RWAs popping up daily
The flywheel is real: more users → more liquidity → more builders → more users.
What’s next?
Base Azul tomorrow kicks off the next leg of growth. The onchain economy isn’t a future narrative anymore it’s the present, and Base is the open, neutral, high-performance stack powering it.
Drop in the replies:
- What are YOU shipping this week?
- Which 2026 pillar are you most excited about?
- Tag a Base builder or project that deserves a spotlight we’re retweeting the best replies all week!
Let’s make this the biggest week yet.
See you on the other side of Azul tomorrow morning.
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