Good friend.tech Drives Up Coinbase’s Base Blockchain Exercise

Coinbase’s layer 2 blockchain, Base, which launched in early August, has seen its every day transactions hit an all-time excessive, in line with information from IntoTheBlock. Base noticed 1.88 million transactions on Thursday, increased than layer 2 rivals Arbitrum and Optimism mixed, which noticed 780,000 and 370,000, respectively. “Apparently, it isn’t decentralized finance (DeFi) purposes nor non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces driving the surge in Base’s exercise. As a substitute, a good portion of utilization will be attributed to a brand new social utility, FriendTech,” mentioned Lucas Outumuro, head of analysis at IntoTheBlock. Decentralized social community platform Good friend.tech is constructed on Base and calls itself “{the marketplace} in your buddies.” The platform noticed elevated utilization over the past week, with its every day transactions additionally reaching an all-time excessive. Good friend.tech’s transactions reached 529,000.