Token is planned, and "exploration" is theater for the naive!

From "never will" to "maybe after all"!

As recently as November 2024, Jesse Pollak, leader of the Base project, asserted: "There are no plans for a token. The documentation still shows ETH as the only gas currency. That was the official line.

September 15, 2025 - a sudden turnaround. On the BaseCamp blog and conference, Pollak announces that the team is "beginning to explore the token idea." Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, adds that it's a way to "accelerate decentralization."

Controlled experiment

Base says it's "early stages, with no timetable or details." But the logic is clear:

• denial (2024),
• changing the narrative (2025),
• Preparing the community for the inevitable.

It's not exploration, it's testing market reaction. Coinbase is testing sentiment - whether people will buy the story and the token.

Motivation hidden in outreach

In the L2 world, every major player ends up with its own token. It's an additional source of revenue, a control tool and a marketing hook. Base has known this all along. Today's "no specifics" is just a cover story - the script is already in the drawer.

👉 And now a question for you: would you buy the Base token if it appeared on the market? And would you like to see it in Bitcoin ATM?

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