Base Details Tokenized Stocks Push and Base Blue VIP at Chinese Community Briefing

jessepollak amplified a recap on Oct 19, 2026 of a joint Coinbase and Base briefing with the Chinese-speaking community, held the previous evening, that laid out three growth priorities for the onchain ecosystem.

Scale, tokenized equities, trader rewards

The first pillar centers on accessibility: Base describes itself as one of the largest blockchain networks globally by total value locked at roughly $6.2 billion, second only to Ethereum, with current product focus split across trading, payments and lending.

The second is tokenized stocks. Coinbase and Base plan to list 10 tokenized equities per day for the remainder of 2026, targeting more than 500 stocks onchain by year-end. Tokenized equity trading on Base currently runs about $100 million in daily volume, per the recap.

The third is a forthcoming VIP program called Base Blue, aimed at high-volume traders with dedicated perks and rewards. No launch date or eligibility thresholds were disclosed.

Who's behind it

jessepollak is the creator and lead of Base, the Ethereum Layer-2 incubated by Coinbase and built on Optimism's OP Stack. The recap closed on the same theme: the aim, it said, is to bring more financial services onchain so ordinary users can use them easily.

The recap was originally posted by @Nibel_eth and reshared by Pollak.

What to watch

Concrete details remain outstanding on Base Blue, including tier requirements and reward structure. The pace of tokenized stock listings through the fourth quarter will be the clearest signal of whether the 500-stock target holds.