Base Airdrop is one of the most anticipated crypto events in 2025. As Coinbase’s L2 network built on Ethereum, Base aims to make Web3 faster, cheaper, and easier for everyone. This guide explains how to qualify for the upcoming $BASE airdrop, with clear steps to help users join the Base ecosystem and maximize the rewards.
What is Base?
Base is a L2 built on Ethereum with the goal of increasing scalability on Ethereum while still inheriting security from Ethereum. In addition, Base aims to be developer-friendly on Ethereum, using that as a springboard to bring billions of users to web3 in the future.
Some notable advantages of Base compared to other optimistic rollup chains include:
- Built by Coinbase, a team and company that is always highly regarded for its legal compliance and has gone public via an IPO on the US stock exchange.
- Access to 100M+ customers and $80B+ in assets in Coinbase.
- Ecosystem growth accelerated by Coinbase partnerships and distribution.
What is Base airdrop?
After the announcement of the native token launch at the Base Camp 2025 event, the Base ecosystem is receiving special attention from the community, and there will be many opportunities ahead of Base's TGE event.
Although there is currently no information about the timing of the Base token's launch, we should prepare in advance to seize the opportunities when the Base token is officially launched on the market.
In the above context, issuing a token has become a necessary solution. The token is not merely a tool for speculation, but plays a key role in the long-term development strategy:
- The ability to retain capital: When it has its own token, users will have stronger motivation to commit to the ecosystem. They not only use the services but also become a part of Base, with direct benefits from the network's development.
- A magnet to attract talented developers: Base is lacking breakthrough applications like Virtual, and the token can attract talent through incentives.
- Base has also "matured" enough to issue a token: Base has the necessary level of decentralization to ensure greater safety and independence, helping users trust the ecosystem, even though there are still some centralized elements like the sequencer controlled by Coinbase.
- The need for an additional factor besides the Coinbase brand: Initially, Base relied heavily on Coinbase's reputation - the largest cryptocurrency exchange in US. But reality shows that brand alone is not enough. Therefore, issuing a token is like a boost that gives users additional motivation to stay with the project.
- And most importantly, Base is benefiting from a favorable context: The Trump administration is very supportive of crypto, creating conditions for companies like Coinbase to experiment and develop without worrying about legal issues as before.
Read more: Who will be eligible for the Base airdrop?
How to do Base Airdrop
Similar to other L2s, when do airdrops on Base, you should focus on onchain activities, and "Onchain" is a keyword that Base mentions repeatedly. Base also has its own onchain points checker page, which is base.org, to help everyone check their own points.
The key is: stay active on Base
Why farm @base when you can contribute to @base, make more impact, earn more money, and make friends that will last your lifetime?
— jesse.base.eth (@jessepollak) October 13, 2025
To increase your score, you can refer to some of the following criteria:
- Total number of transactions.
- Number of active days/Number of consecutive active days.
- Swap, bridge, borrow, lend, and stake transactions on lending protocols.
- ENS domain.
- Deploying smart contracts.
- Activity on the Zora app.
- Activity on the Farcaster app and wallet.
The more transactions you have, the longer you've been engaged, and the higher you'll be evaluated. The Onchain Score doesn't just count the number of transactions; it looks at the time you've been consistently active, the number of consecutive days present, the average transaction value…
Read more: Base Airdrop 2025 - Everything You Need to Know
Therefore, becoming a "real user" is very important. Below is a guide for everyone to operate completely on Base.
You need to prepare some things as follows:
- A MetaMask wallet or any Web3 wallet. You can refer here.
- 0.05 - 0.1 ETH to use as fund when participating.
Swap on DEX
- Step 1: Access major DEXs on Base like Uniswap or Aerodrome.
- Step 2: Switch your wallet to the Base network.
- Step 3: Proceed to swap high-liquidity pairs like ETH - USDC or ETH - WETH.
Maintain 2 - 3 swaps/day consistently. In addition, you can also be flexible by participating in trading memecoins on Base because that is also counted as an activity of a real user.
Besides that, right on DEXs like Uniswap and Aerodrome, you should provide liquidity to the exchange with the ETH/USDC or WETH/USDC pair, which currently has good yields.
Besides offering good yields, choosing liquidity pairs centered on ETH and stablecoins can help you avoid large market drawdowns, as ETH remains a relatively less volatile asset compared to most altcoins.
- Step 1: Access the Aerodrome.
- Step 2: Prepare $50 ETH and $50 USDC.
- Step 3: Go to the Liquidity section, then select the WETH/USDC pair.
- Step 4: Choose a liquidity provision price range of +/-50% compared to the current price. For example, if the ETH price is $4K, select the price range from $2K to $5K.
Bridge asset to Base
Using bridges will also prove that you are a real user, and it brings a better onchain history. The use of bridges is often considered more valuable, as bridging fees are typically higher than those for activities like swapping or lending and borrowing.
Use Base Bridge - the official bridge of Base to transfer 0.1 - 0.5 ETH from Ethereum to Base and from Base back to Ethereum. Repeat about 4 - 5 times in a month.
The time between each transfer should be spaced a few days apart; avoid the spamming style of transferring back and forth immediately.
Some bridge platforms that you can refer to, such as:
Register Name Service
To register a Base domain name, follow these steps:
- Step 1: Access the website Basenames
- Step 2: Type the name you want to register
- Step 3: If that name hasn't been registered by anyone, the website will show 'available'. After that, you just need to connect your wallet and pay about $0.5 for 1 year of registration.
Activities related to the Guild
- Step 1: Join the BASE Guild
- Step 2: Complete Social Tasks
Apart from the “Base Around The World” section, you can also check out other tasks like “Based Onchain” mainly tasks related to number of transaction.
The remaining sections generally require higher fees, holding NFTs, or some programming skills. You can completely skip those and instead focus on your on-chain activities such as adding liquidity, lending/borrowing, or bridging.
Other Activities
Besides simple activities like bridging, swapping, and providing liquidity, you can participate in other dApps on Base. Below are some notable projects in the ecosystem that you can join:
- Lending/Borrow: Aave, Morpho
- SocialFi: Farcaster, Towns
- Perp DEXs: Avantis
- Creator Coin: Zora - The leaders of Base quite like using this app; you should interact with the app regularly.
- AI & Agents: HeyElsa AI
In addition to participating in dApps to increase your onchain points, you also have the opportunity to receive airdrops from projects in the ecosystem that haven't launched their tokens yet, such as Farcaster.
Conclusion
User numbers and developers on Base are very large, which causes the reward pool to be divided into much smaller portions. However, the Base Token will be a token that we need to pay attention to, since this L2 is backed by the top crypto exchange in the US.
Base is not just a chain where you simply farm and dump tokens; Base has opportunities around yields & memecoins, and if you can take advantage of them, sometimes the rewards it brings are even larger than the Base airdrop itself.
FAQ
Q1: Does Base have an airdrop?
Not officially yet, but the event at Base Camp 2025 has indicated that Base's launching of a token is just a matter of time, and that means an airdrop event for the community.
Q2: How do I claim my core airdrop on Base?
Connect your wallet, perform swaps, add liquidity, bridge assets, and interact with consumer apps to help raise your Onchain Score.
Q3: How do I claim the airdrop in my wallet?
There is no information about the airdrop claim yet. This article will be updated if there is any official announcement from Base.
Q4: What is the price of $BASE today?
$BASE does not yet have an official market price since it has not been listed. However, you will soon be able to trade it on the leading pre-market platform, Whales Market. Here, you can buy more $BASE or sell to take profit before it is officially listed on CEXs like Binance or Bybit.
Q5: What is the $BASE pre-market price?
As of October 13, 2025, $BASE does not yet have a pre-market price. However, you will soon be able to trade it on Whales Market.
Q6: What is the $BASE tokenomics?
There is no official information from the Base team regarding tokenomics yet. Please follow the official Base channels for future updates.
Q7: When will $BASE launch?
No official date has been announced, but many rumors speculate that it will be launched in Q4/2025.