Creating on Base Before BASE

" Base is beginning to explore a network token." It was the announcement heard 'round the crypto world at BaseCamp 2025.

For now, no exact plans have been confirmed, though unsurprisingly people are already clamoring to position themselves for the arrival of the prospective $BASE coin.

You could go for something like the double-dip strategy by using token-less apps atop Base, lining up for multiple separate airdrops simultaneously. However, the straightforward creator strategy is worth considering, too.

"Create and you will be rewarded," as Base lead Jesse Pollak has said before.

That's the ethos of Base today, but it's also a strategy for potentially upping your $BASE allocation, as the Base team will presumably earmark a significant distribution for creators on the chain.

How to proceed, then? Base has plenty of apps, so it really comes down to your preferences. Do things you enjoy on platforms you like, and anything beyond that will be icing on the cake. But for instance...

You could make NFTs on Base:

• Rodeo is a great easy starting point, offering slick Instagram-like UX that turns your posts into digital collectibles.
• TITLES is another option. It's an onchain AI remixing app that lets you simply mint outputs from custom-trained, community-sourced AI art models. I have one there you can try.
• Manifold is awesome for DIY NFT drops in general, especially if you want to customize your release styles.
• thirdweb offers pre-built smart contracts, so it's also an option if you want to deploy custom NFT collections.
• vibe.market, currently in alpha, is a newer avenue to explore where you can release rippable digital card packs.

You could also make coins on Base:

• Clanker is the most popular ERC-20 token launcher on Base, usable via its website or prompt requests on Farcaster. The new V4 offers some nice flexibility.
• Flaunch is my favorite token launcher platform, also on Base. It offers a cool suite of features, from fixed-price fair launches to revenue sharing with coin holders.
• fxhash pioneered art coins, which are ERC-20s tied to generative art collections that allow minting, rerolling, locking, and evolving underlying outputs. Something to explore for creative coders.
• retake.tv is like an onchain alternative to Twitch, where livestreamers launch personal Streamer Coins and can integrate them into their communities.
• Zora is the popular onchain social network, similar to Instagram in general style, that lets you launch a creator coin that you pair against all your tokenized posts.

You could simply post content atop Base, too:

• Base App, revamped from Coinbase Wallet, is a Farcaster client with a Zora integration so you can just post here or tokenize your posts as you wish. There's a waitlist for now, but more invites are starting to roll out.
• Paragraph is an onchain publishing platform that's great for longform content. The team recently introduced Coins, allowing writers to tokenize their articles for patronage. And you can now pair your posts with your Zora creator coin, too.

The ideas above aren’t exhaustive of what’s possible on Base today, but they do highlight some straightforward ways to ramp up your activity on the L2. And if $BASE is inevitable, creating here is one of the clearest ways to prepare!