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Base Starts With ETH
Veröffentlicht: 2026-03-03 09:00
ETH was the first live Base asset because it let us ship the cleanest possible payment path. Native settlement is the right place to begin before token complexity grows.
We started Base with ETH first
The first live asset on Base was ETH, and that was not accidental.
If you want the first payment flow on a new chain to be understandable, native currency is usually the cleanest place to begin.
Why native comes before tokens
Native ETH removes one full layer of ERC20 complexity.
No allowance state, no approve step, and no extra token-specific assumptions. That makes it the best first path for getting the contract flow, verification, and public checkout behavior lined up properly.
Simple first does not mean small first
Shipping ETH first was not about limiting the vision.
It was about creating a trustworthy baseline. Once the native payment path works well, it becomes much easier to add token support without guessing where the bugs are coming from.
A good first asset teaches the product a lot
ETH on Base taught us how the wallet flow behaves in practice, how the verifier should behave, how status transitions need to be handled, and where UI friction shows up.
That kind of learning is much cheaper when the first asset is as clean as possible.
The point was to create a stable base layer
Once that base layer exists, token support becomes an extension, not a gamble.
That is the real reason ETH came first. It let us build the payment surface in the right order instead of the loudest order.