Base Foundation launches a developer support program, betting on RWA, stablecoins, AI agents, and the on-chain finance future

Odaily Planet Daily reports that the Base Ecosystem Fund (Base Ecosystem Fund) has released “Request for Builders: Funding the Future of Global Finance,” announcing that it will provide early funding support and ecosystem resources for startup teams committed to building the next-generation global financial infrastructure. Its goal is to create secure, trusted global financial infrastructure so that the financial system can operate around the clock (24/7) and enable large-scale transactions through deep liquidity. But the value of infrastructure ultimately depends on the applications built on top of it, so the fund is looking for developers and entrepreneurs who can create real application scenarios.

The Base Ecosystem Fund will focus on Pre-Seed and Seed stage projects, providing capital investment as well as technical, ecosystem, and business support from the Base team. The key investment directions announced this time include:

1. Tokenization: Base is paying attention to tokenizing real-world assets (RWA) on-chain, including yield-bearing assets, short-term working capital instruments, invoice financing, trade financing, revenue-share financing, and long-term assets such as REITs, copyright royalty income, and private credit funds. The fund hopes to support teams with professional capabilities in asset issuance and management.

2. Stablecoins and emerging market finance: Base is bullish on stablecoin use cases in cash-dominant markets, including connecting offline cash networks with stablecoin payment systems, and promoting local-currency stablecoins to provide users with lower-cost payments, savings, and financial services.

3. On-chain credit and lending: The fund is focused on directions such as unsecured consumer credit and multi-party credit systems. It hopes to use zkTLS, smart contracts, and stablecoin infrastructure to build new credit assessment and loan-distribution models.

4. Prediction markets: Base believes that conditional asset markets and verticalized prediction markets still have significant potential, including areas such as political, cultural, and insurance risk management, and clinical trials. It aims to improve future-event information discovery capabilities through market mechanisms.

5. Tokenizing traditional finance: The fund focuses on institutional-grade financial infrastructure such as the foreign exchange market and on-chain bilateral protocols, hoping to use stablecoins, smart contracts, and on-chain settlement systems to reshape traditional financial markets.

6. AI Agent commercial applications: Base says that with the rapid development of AI Agent infrastructure, the next stage focus will shift from “building Agents” to enabling Agents to truly participate in consumer transactions, including smart shopping, automated settlement, booking services, and business scenarios based on stablecoins and the x402 protocol.

In addition, Base is also looking at SKU tokenization, aiming to transform traditional Web2 product catalogs into on-chain composable assets so that AI Agents, wallets, and trading platforms can directly discover, trade, and purchase products. The Base Ecosystem Fund states that the above directions represent current key focus areas, but the most important signal still comes from founders’ own judgment of the future financial system. Teams that align with the directions or are exploring related fields can apply to join Base ecosystem development.