According to @jessepollak, Base is for everyone, signaling an inclusive push to onboard users to Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer 2 (source: https://twitter.com/jessepollak/status/1995134975096815993). Base is an Ethereum Layer 2 built on the OP Stack (source: https://community.optimism.io/docs/stack/) and incubated by Coinbase, which has stated there is no Base network token (source: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/introducing-base). For trading strategy, monitor ETH and OP alongside Base because gas on Base is paid in ETH and the network architecture relies on the OP Stack, linking Base activity to attention around ETH and the OP ecosystem rather than a native Base token (source: https://docs.base.org; source: https://community.optimism.io/docs/stack/; source: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/introducing-base). To gauge near-term adoption, track on-chain transactions, active addresses, and fees on Base via BaseScan and similar dashboards (source: https://basescan.org).