Articolo sull'alimentazione della pompa
Base Enters The Stack
Pubblicato: 2026-03-01 09:00
Base became the first blockchain we brought properly into the live product. It was the cleanest place to start for low-cost, practical onchain payments.
Base is the first blockchain in the live stack
We needed a first serious chain for live onchain payment support, and Base was the right call.
It gave us a practical combination of speed, lower costs, familiar wallet behavior, and enough stablecoin depth to make the first rollout feel useful instead of symbolic.
Why Base came first
A first chain matters because it sets the operational pattern for everything that follows.
You are not just adding one network. You are choosing the first environment where wallet flow, fee behavior, verification logic, and merchant expectations all have to work together.
The right first chain is the one that reduces drag
For us, that meant choosing a chain that was usable, not just fashionable.
Base offered a good balance between developer reality and user reality. That is what mattered most.
This is bigger than one integration
Once Base entered the stack, the product moved much closer to a real onchain payment surface.
The wallet connector, the payment contract flow, the public verification logic, and the merchant checkout experience all started getting anchored around a live chain instead of a theoretical one.
Why chain sequencing matters
Not every blockchain needs to be live at once.
It is better to start where the payment experience can feel coherent, then expand from a chain that has already taught you how the real system behaves.
Base was the right first move
That does not mean it will be the last important chain. It just means it was the best first one.
And if the first live chain is chosen well, the rest of the roadmap usually becomes much easier to build with discipline.