Svmuu News: The Base Ecosystem Fund has released “Request for Builders: Funding the Future of Global Finance,” announcing that it will provide early-stage funding and ecosystem resources to startup teams committed to building the next generation of global financial infrastructure. Its goal is to build a secure, trustworthy global financial infrastructure that enables the financial system to operate 24/7 and supports large-scale transactions through deep liquidity. However, the value of the infrastructure ultimately depends on the applications built on top of it, so the fund seeks developers and entrepreneurs capable of creating real-world use cases.
The Base Ecosystem Fund will focus on supporting projects in the Pre-Seed and Seed stages, providing both capital investment and technical, ecosystem, and business support from the Base team. The key investment areas announced include:
1. Tokenization: Base is focusing on bringing real-world assets (RWAs) onto the blockchain, including income-generating assets, short-term working capital instruments, invoice financing, trade finance, revenue-sharing financing, as well as long-term assets such as REITs, copyright royalties, and private credit funds. The fund aims to support teams with expertise in asset issuance and management.
2. Stablecoins and Emerging Market Finance: Base is bullish on the application of stablecoins in cash-dominated markets, including bridging offline cash networks with stablecoin payment systems and driving the development of local-currency stablecoins to provide users with lower-cost payments, savings, and financial services.
3. On-chain Credit and Lending: The fund focuses on areas such as unsecured consumer credit and multi-party credit systems, aiming to leverage zkTLS, smart contracts, and stablecoin infrastructure to establish new models for credit assessment and loan distribution.
4. Prediction Markets: Base believes that conditional asset markets and vertical prediction markets still hold significant potential in areas such as politics, culture, insurance risk management, and clinical trials, enhancing the ability to uncover information about future events through market mechanisms.
5. Bringing Traditional Finance On-Chain: The fund focuses on institutional-grade financial infrastructure such as foreign exchange markets and on-chain bilateral agreements, aiming to reshape traditional financial markets using stablecoins, smart contracts, and on-chain settlement systems.
6. Commercial Applications of AI Agents: Base states that, with the rapid development of AI agent infrastructure, the next phase will shift the focus from “building agents” to enabling agents to actively participate in consumer transactions—including smart shopping, automated settlement, booking services, and commercial scenarios based on stablecoins and the x402 protocol.
In addition, Base is focusing on SKU tokenization, aiming to transform traditional Web2 product catalogs into on-chain composable assets, enabling AI Agents, wallets, and trading platforms to directly discover, trade, and purchase goods. The Base Ecosystem Fund noted that while the above directions represent current areas of focus, the most important signals still come from entrepreneurs’ own assessments of the future financial system. Teams that align with these directions or are exploring related fields are welcome to apply to join the Base ecosystem.