Coinbase Ventures' Base Ecosystem Fund invests in six projects

Quick Take

  • Coinbase Ventures has invested into six projects from the Base Ecosystem Fund.
  • The projects were: Avantis, BSX, Onboard, OpenCover, Paragraph, and Truflation.

Coinbase Ventures allocated an initial round of investments from the Base Ecosystem Fund into six projects.

The selected projects are Avantis, BSX, Onboard, OpenCover, Paragraph, and Truflation. The investment amounts were not disclosed.

Managed by Coinbase Ventures, the investment arm of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, the Base Ecosystem Fund backs early-stage projects operating on its incubated Base network. The company stated that its ecosystem fund has received over 800 funding applications.

What are the projects?

The firm outlined the work of these various on-chain projects.

Avantis and BSX are protocols for onchain trading on Base. Onboard is developing a self-custodial wallet aimed at emerging markets.

OpenCover is working on insurance aggregation for Layer 2 protocols and partners with Nexus Mutual. Paragraph is creating an onchain platform for content. Finally, Truflation aims to deliver independent daily inflation data.

Base is a Layer 2 scaling solution on Ethereum and aims to serve as a hub for Coinbase’s on-chain products while maintaining an open ecosystem for all developers.


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