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@base weekly recap
What happened on
@base this week
NEWS & UPGRADES
■ x402 payments officially crossed $100M in Q1 alone → over 90% of all onchain agentic stablecoin volume now routes through Base.
■ Base ranked #1 in stablecoin transaction volume for 7 of the last 12 months.
■ AI agents on AWS now natively pay in USDC on Base → agentic commerce has an official standard.
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@visa stablecoin settlement partnership announced.
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@succinctlabs SP1 ZK proofs now live on Base Azul (proving $7.4B in deposits).
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@base Batches 003 Robotics Track (powered by
@virtuals_io) wrapped → winners:
@opengotchi,
@shadowcleague,
@Vader_AI_. Demo Day confirmed for 19 May in San Francisco (12 teams).
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@chamberfi hit 1M daily active addresses globally.
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@basepaint celebrated 1,000 consecutive days of onchain art.
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@baseLayer Season 2 Episode 2 dropped featuring
@noise_xyz builders (For You Page for the internet).
STATS & VOLUME
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@quickswapdex crossed $400M cumulative trading volume on Base.
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@virtuals_io now routes 43% of all agentic transactions on Base.
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@aerodromefi executed another 115K AERO buyback (PGF) → over 20M AERO bought back & max locked this year.
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@theprivacycash confirmed as largest privacy protocol on Base by TVL, volume & txns.
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@mamo crossed $240.7M cumulative deposits.
ECOSYSTEM
■ Robotics & AI infra exploding:
@axisrobotics wrapped demo day open-sourced AxisDataCleaning pipeline Task Generation Engine at 10-15 tasks/day.
@orionx_robotics tested ARES Sim v1 partnered with Duckies.
@shadowcleague 1st runner-up.
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@virtuals_io: robot-to-robot commerce becoming standard Arena fully open (no token required, $200K weekly prize pool).
■ Privacy wave:
@veildotcash private money live (zk pools),
@theprivacycash audited SDK for private transfers & bridging,
@cypher_hq_ Agent Pay (one-time virtual cards for agents).
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@centrifuge tokenized S&P 500 exposure live on Base.
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@genlayer: Shipyard live (one-click fork contract sharing) FUD Market incoming Community AMA.
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@uptopia_xyz: uptopiAgent Ideathon final stretch Agent Realm fuel mechanics updated with x402.
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@charmsai: public character launch next week ZOE creator campaign 18K participants.
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@roarin_ai: Chapter 1 Consensus Day 1 announcement species split mechanics.
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@b18timebank: full onchain rally live banking architecture unveiled.
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@pixiechess: 100K games played new daily auction pieces.
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@strikerobot_ai @askvenice: privacy-first VLM reasoning layer live.
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@filecoin x402-powered AI agent storage now live.