The inaugural edition of Base Batches, which began on April 25, just wrapped with winners and runners-up announced last night on Base's social channels.

For the uninitiated, Base Batches is a global program catering to builders creating the next generation of onchain products on Base. It begins with a buildathon, then the best products get incubated into IncuBase where the founders are mentored, their ideas refined and projects turned into startups. The top teams are then invited to Demo Day where they present their project to a panel of judges to share from the pie of $1 million in funding.

The buildathons happened across six regions: Africa, North America, Europe, APAC, LATAM, and India, with builders applying to build products in the following categories:

AI: Create an AI agent on Base that provides onchain solutions using Coinbase developer platform tools.

Consumer: Build innovative consumer-centric apps in media, film, music, entertainment, or gaming.

DeFi: Build DeFi solutions that redefine the current infrastructure, unlocking custom liquidity logic, dynamic fees, stablecoin-optimized pools, and beyond.

Mini-apps: Create the next viral interactive mini-app to live on social feeds and leverage the social graph in interesting ways, using the Base minikit.

Showcase: This category allows you to bring an existing product you can improve on to the program.

Stablecoin: Join the trend and develop an app that provides financial solutions across personal finance, cross-border payment, and DeFi leveraging stablecoin tech and Base's network of local stablecoins.

Vibe Coding: Simply join the fun, vibe-coding the next cool app on Base using Ohara.

Winners and runners-up were selected in each category across the regions with a prize pool of 10.5 ETH per region. 1.5 ETH per category; winner gets 1 ETH while the runner-up gets 0.5 ETH.

We will list those in Africa and detail what they are building.

Winner: Rovify

Rovify wants to unlock Africa's creator economy by bringing events onchain and tapping into the world's youngest population through entertainment — the continent's biggest cultural export. The product is a "social-first event and creator monetization platform" that is going to create a more inclusive creator economy for Africans who are often locked out of payouts by certain platforms.

Runner-Up: QRBase

QRBase is a gamified crypto experience where each time its governance token, $SCAN, hits a new market cap milestone, a piece of a blurred QR code is revealed.

Winner: FVP

FVP wants to help you (degens) maintain financial discipline by helping you safely lock (or save) your crypto assets for a specified period and build long-term investments with Aave integration. Think of it as an onchain Piggyvest.

Winner: Microgigs

Microgig is a decentralized freelance marketplace that eliminates middlemen and gives freelancers more control, a better escrow system with smart contracts, and faster payment — unlike traditional platforms such as Upwork and Fiverr that charge high commission fees and take weeks to pay for services already rendered.

Integrating into Farcaster Frames, businesses and service providers can find each other without leaving their social feed.

Runner-Up: Spotlite

Spotlite is a Zora minikit application that provides analytics and insights into how content coins are performing, helping creators understand what content or coin they should create based on what's trending or performing.

Spotlite also allows you to compare engagement and earnings with other creators, set alerts for a token, and request sponsored content — users can pay a top creator to coin content because of their reach, but all profits will go to the user. Kinda cool!

Winner: Sandworm

Another product solving blockchain data accessibility. "Onchain data might be public, but getting to it? That's a whole different beast," reads the team's Devfolio page.

This is a real headache Sandworm is solving by creating a simple way to access and analyze blockchain data with the familiarity of SQL-like query language.

Watch video here.

Runner-Up: LENDBIT Finance

Lendbit Finance combines the best of both worlds of peer-to-peer lending and liquidity pool-based lending. A winner of the Base Africa hackathon, Lendbit Finance is built on Base but is designed to scale across ecosystems via the OP stack.

Winner: NedaPay

NedaPay is a seamless payment platform that streamlines usage of all local stablecoin payments on Base, ensuring seamless integration and swapping of USDC, cNGN, IDRX, etc., by merchants, businesses, and creators. It also allows users to create invoices and generate payment links with set amounts tied to their wallets.

Runner-Up: Afriramp

Described as the easiest way to buy, sell, send, and receive stablecoins in East Africa, AfriRamp is bringing Ugandans onchain through on-ramping and off-ramping of UGX (Ugandan Shillings). The product enables direct conversion of USDC or ETH on Base to UGX at 1-3% fees, bypassing costly traditional intermediaries.

Winner: KiSmati

A mobile app for public transport in Dar es Salaam that helps users plan their journey, predict bus arrival, and prevent overcrowding by providing real-time seat availability.

Runner-Up: SolarShare

SolarShare, like its name implies, solves the small issue of solar microgrid owners with excess solar power to give or share by providing a blockchain-based platform enabling grid owners to tokenize their excess energy production and trade with neighbors who have such needs.

Winner: Ataeru

Ataeru aims to solve the challenges of reproductive and family-building care in healthcare systems globally by tackling funding deficiencies, creating transparency around (sperm and egg) donation systems, and connecting donors to hospitals and vice versa.

Runner-Up: BaseIndexer

BaseIndexer is simplifying the process of accessing blockchain data for businesses, developers, and analysts using AI — think of it as Google for blockchain data. It takes the complex, hard-to-read blockchain data and makes it super accessible to everyone, especially non-technical folks.

Watch this video explaining BaseIndexer.

Which project are you looking forward to the most?

The inaugural edition of Base Batches, which began on April 25, just wrapped with winners and runners-up announced last night on Base's social channels.

For the uninitiated, Base Batches is a global program catering to builders creating the next generation of onchain products on Base. It begins with a buildathon, then the best products get incubated into IncuBase where the founders are mentored, their ideas refined and projects turned into startups. The top teams are then invited to Demo Day where they present their project to a panel of judges to share from the pie of $1 million in funding.

The buildathons happened across six regions: Africa, North America, Europe, APAC, LATAM, and India, with builders applying to build products in the following categories:

AI: Create an AI agent on Base that provides onchain solutions using Coinbase developer platform tools.

Consumer: Build innovative consumer-centric apps in media, film, music, entertainment, or gaming.

DeFi: Build DeFi solutions that redefine the current infrastructure, unlocking custom liquidity logic, dynamic fees, stablecoin-optimized pools, and beyond.

Mini-apps: Create the next viral interactive mini-app to live on social feeds and leverage the social graph in interesting ways, using the Base minikit.

Showcase: This category allows you to bring an existing product you can improve on to the program.

Stablecoin: Join the trend and develop an app that provides financial solutions across personal finance, cross-border payment, and DeFi leveraging stablecoin tech and Base's network of local stablecoins.

Vibe Coding: Simply join the fun, vibe-coding the next cool app on Base using Ohara.

Winners and runners-up were selected in each category across the regions with a prize pool of 10.5 ETH per region. 1.5 ETH per category; winner gets 1 ETH while the runner-up gets 0.5 ETH.

We will list those in Africa and detail what they are building.

Winner: Rovify

Rovify wants to unlock Africa's creator economy by bringing events onchain and tapping into the world's youngest population through entertainment — the continent's biggest cultural export. The product is a "social-first event and creator monetization platform" that is going to create a more inclusive creator economy for Africans who are often locked out of payouts by certain platforms.

Runner-Up: QRBase

QRBase is a gamified crypto experience where each time its governance token, $SCAN, hits a new market cap milestone, a piece of a blurred QR code is revealed.

Winner: FVP

FVP wants to help you (degens) maintain financial discipline by helping you safely lock (or save) your crypto assets for a specified period and build long-term investments with Aave integration. Think of it as an onchain Piggyvest.

Winner: Microgigs

Microgig is a decentralized freelance marketplace that eliminates middlemen and gives freelancers more control, a better escrow system with smart contracts, and faster payment — unlike traditional platforms such as Upwork and Fiverr that charge high commission fees and take weeks to pay for services already rendered.

Integrating into Farcaster Frames, businesses and service providers can find each other without leaving their social feed.

Runner-Up: Spotlite

Spotlite is a Zora minikit application that provides analytics and insights into how content coins are performing, helping creators understand what content or coin they should create based on what's trending or performing.

Spotlite also allows you to compare engagement and earnings with other creators, set alerts for a token, and request sponsored content — users can pay a top creator to coin content because of their reach, but all profits will go to the user. Kinda cool!

Winner: Sandworm

Another product solving blockchain data accessibility. "Onchain data might be public, but getting to it? That's a whole different beast," reads the team's Devfolio page.

This is a real headache Sandworm is solving by creating a simple way to access and analyze blockchain data with the familiarity of SQL-like query language.

Watch video here.

Runner-Up: LENDBIT Finance

Lendbit Finance combines the best of both worlds of peer-to-peer lending and liquidity pool-based lending. A winner of the Base Africa hackathon, Lendbit Finance is built on Base but is designed to scale across ecosystems via the OP stack.

Winner: NedaPay

NedaPay is a seamless payment platform that streamlines usage of all local stablecoin payments on Base, ensuring seamless integration and swapping of USDC, cNGN, IDRX, etc., by merchants, businesses, and creators. It also allows users to create invoices and generate payment links with set amounts tied to their wallets.

Runner-Up: Afriramp

Described as the easiest way to buy, sell, send, and receive stablecoins in East Africa, AfriRamp is bringing Ugandans onchain through on-ramping and off-ramping of UGX (Ugandan Shillings). The product enables direct conversion of USDC or ETH on Base to UGX at 1-3% fees, bypassing costly traditional intermediaries.

Winner: KiSmati

A mobile app for public transport in Dar es Salaam that helps users plan their journey, predict bus arrival, and prevent overcrowding by providing real-time seat availability.

Runner-Up: SolarShare

SolarShare, like its name implies, solves the small issue of solar microgrid owners with excess solar power to give or share by providing a blockchain-based platform enabling grid owners to tokenize their excess energy production and trade with neighbors who have such needs.

Winner: Ataeru

Ataeru aims to solve the challenges of reproductive and family-building care in healthcare systems globally by tackling funding deficiencies, creating transparency around (sperm and egg) donation systems, and connecting donors to hospitals and vice versa.

Runner-Up: BaseIndexer

BaseIndexer is simplifying the process of accessing blockchain data for businesses, developers, and analysts using AI — think of it as Google for blockchain data. It takes the complex, hard-to-read blockchain data and makes it super accessible to everyone, especially non-technical folks.

Watch this video explaining BaseIndexer.

Which project are you looking forward to the most?