The Base ecosystem fund launches a developer recruitment program to support the construction of global on-chain financial infrastructure

PANews July 17, Base Ecosystem Fund released “Request for Builders: Funding the Future of Global Finance,” announcing that it will provide early funding support and ecosystem resources to startup teams committed to building the next-generation global financial infrastructure. Its goal is to create secure, trustworthy global financial infrastructure so that the financial system can run 24/7, and enable large-scale transactions through deep liquidity. However, 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.

Base Ecosystem Fund will focus on supporting 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, where Base is focusing on tokenizing real-world assets (RWA) on-chain, including yield-bearing assets, short-term working capital instruments, invoice financing, trade financing, revenue-share financing, as well as long-term assets such as REITs, royalty revenues, 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 stablecoins’ use 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 interested in directions such as unsecured consumer credit and multi-party credit systems, and hopes to use zkTLS, smart contracts, and stablecoin infrastructure to build new credit evaluation and loan distribution models.

4. Prediction markets. Base believes conditional asset markets and verticalized prediction markets still have significant potential, including areas such as political, cultural, insurance risk management, and clinical trials, improving future-event information discovery capacity through market mechanisms.

5. On-chain 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 business applications. Base said that, as AI Agent infrastructure develops rapidly, the next stage will shift from “building Agents” to having Agents truly participate in consumer transactions, including smart shopping, automated settlement, booking services, and commercial scenarios based on stablecoins and the x402 protocol.

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