Coinbase is transforming its wallet into Base App, a crypto-native app combining social media, trading, payments, and mini-apps.
US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is coming out with its own “super app” after rebranding its Coinbase Wallet as “Base app.”
Coinbase unveiled its new “everything app” on Wednesday with a video showing how it will combine a crypto wallet and trading and payment functions with social media and messaging.
The new Base app was announced at the company’s “A New Day One” conference in Los Angeles. It will also support “mini apps” running on the company’s Ethereum layer-2 blockchain, Base.
“Coinbase Wallet is now the Base app, evolving from a wallet into an everything app that brings together social, apps, chat, payments, and trading,” the firm said in a blog post.
Head of product for the Base app, John Granata, said that the firm has built the app to “expand economic freedom, creativity, and innovation,” adding that Coinbase Wallet could be a starting point for a new kind of social network.
He added that the app was still in beta with a waitlist and has been designed around four core experiences: a social network, a place to discover and use apps, an encrypted chat, and a trading and payments wallet.
Hello from @baseapp
Coinbase Wallet is now much more than a wallet. Your new home to create, earn, trade, discover apps, and chat with friends all in one place. pic.twitter.com/LICIDJwvEE
— Base app (@baseapp) July 16, 2025
Features of the Base app
The new product features an open social network powered by Farcaster, where creators own their content and can earn directly from posts without follower minimums or brand deals.
It also provides integrated trading where users can buy, sell, and swap supported cryptocurrencies directly within the social feed. NFC (Near Field Communication) payments enable users to tap-to-pay for instant transfers with Circle’s USDC (USDC) via “Base Pay.”
Mini apps included
Hundreds of embedded mini-applications for gaming, yield farming, and prediction markets are also included, and an enhanced chat provides end-to-end encrypted messaging with AI agents for trading and transactions.
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A “Sign in with Base” feature will also let users carry their credentials with them for quick sign-ins into various online apps.
Coinbase competing with super apps
Coinbase is joining the ranks of companies such as Meta, X, Grab, WeChat and Alipay that have or are developing so-called super apps, which bundle several different web services, functionalities, and finance into a single mobile application.
Base creator Jesse Pollack said it was a “new day one for Base and our brand.” He took a selfie and posted it as the first tokenized post on the Base app.
Meanwhile, the Binance Wallet X feed posted a cryptic message on Wednesday suggesting that it may also be working on something: “Something big is coming up. Stay tuned!”
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