Base Round 1

Buy ETH on an exchange such as Binance and withdraw directly to Base, which most major exchanges support. If your funds sit on another chain, move them using the bridge widget below. It’s recommended to use the Base app to farm Base, and link to your KYC’d Coinbase profile if you have one (go to Settings in the Base app, then Connect to Coinbase).

Swap tokens and provide liquidity on Aerodrome to build volume and fee history. DEX usage is one of the clearest signals of an active user: it touches contracts, pays gas, and creates a steady record.

• Make small swaps across different token pairs, spread over several separate weeks
• A few hundred dollars of cumulative monthly volume across both DEXs reads as consistent use

Open small leveraged positions on a perps protocol such as Avantis. Perps activity was rewarded heavily in past L2 distributions because it generates real fee revenue and signals a higher-intent user.

Keep sizes small and leverage low. The goal is recorded history, not directional bets, so open and close a few positions over several weeks.

Place trades or provide liquidity on predictions market such as Limitless and OmenX. This is a newer activity category, so fewer wallets touch it and your relative footprint counts for more.

• Take small positions on a few open markets, or add liquidity to deepen the record
• Even modest amounts matter, since participation here is rarer than basic swapping

Mint, buy, and sell NFTs through Zora or OpenSea, and register a Basename. This diversifies your wallet beyond DeFi, and a Basename ties a human-readable identity to your address, a strong signal Coinbase controls directly.

• Register your basename first, since it is cheap and high-value
• Mint a few low-cost NFTs, then list or sell at least one to record both sides

Free and cheap apps add transaction count and recency without much capital. Each of these runs real on-chain transactions on Base:

• OnchainGM: Say “GM” on-chain once a day. It is free and builds a daily-activity streak that signals a recurring user. Start here.
• Megapot: An on-chain lottery with cheap tickets, each ticket a real transaction. Buy a ticket.
• BasePaint: Collaborative on-chain art with low-cost mints, a fun way to add creative and NFT activity. Join a canvas.
• Dustswap: Social and on-chain quests plus DEX swaps. An upcoming feature converts all your dust tokens into ETH in one transaction. Try it.

Interact with Other Base Dapps (Complete List)

Join the official Base Discord, then link your account on the Base guild page. Guild checks your connected accounts and assigns any roles you already qualify for.

Connect your Base wallet, Discord, X (Twitter), GitHub, and Farcaster in Guild. Each tier reads from a different source, so a missing connection can cost you a role you’d otherwise already have.

These tiers look at the ETH value in your connected wallet. Hold the balance, then refresh Guild to claim:

• $1 / 0.0005 ETH: the entry tier, open to almost any funded wallet
• $100 / 0.03 ETH: a mid tier most active farmers clear without effort
• $1,000 / 0.3 ETH: the top holdings tier, worth reaching only if your budget allows

Sitting just below a threshold? Top up before you refresh, since Guild re-reads the live balance each time.

These tiers reward technical work:

• Contracts deployed (1 / 5 / 10+): deploy simple verified contracts to Base with OnChainGM. Basic template contracts count toward the lower tiers.
• GitHub commits (1 / 50 / 100+): link the GitHub account behind your code.

Coders should focus here. Builder signals count for more than holdings or follower numbers and are much harder to fake. A few basic deployments already clear the 5+ tier.

These tiers go by your X (Twitter) follower count: 1K, 5K, 10K, 50K, and 100K+. Connect the X account you actually use and Guild assigns the matching tier. There’s no shortcut to a higher follower count, so claim whatever your real account supports. If you’re just shy of a round number like 1K, a short run of Base-related posts can close the gap honestly.