Coinbase Base Token Airdrop: A how-to-guide to qualify for one of the biggest airdrops 2023.

What is Base?

Base is a new Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain that provides a secure, cost-effective, and developer-friendly way to create on-chain applications. Base is a blockchain built on the OP-Stack platform in collaboration with Optimism and operated and built by Coinbase.

Coinbase plans to progressively decentralize the blockchain over time, with the launch of its own token currently being denied by Coinbase. Given that in the past, projects that have conducted a token launch or airdrop have also denied ever bringing a token to market, it makes sense to make some transactions on the testnet to potentially qualify for an upcoming airdrop. As the steps for interacting with the protocol are technically more complicated compared to other airdrops, we have compiled a step-by-step guide that explains how to qualify for a possible Base airdrop.

Step-by-step guide for Base Token Airdrop

1. Create a Coinbase wallet. You can do this with every other Ethereum wallet, but we recommend using the official coinbase wallet to maximize your chances of receiving this airdrop.
2. Visit the official Coinbase Goerli ETH testnet faucet and connect your wallet. Request 0.1 Goerli ETH. You can request 0.1 Goerli ETH every 24 hours.
3. Bridge ETH from the Goerli testnet to the Base testnet.
4. Create a smart contract on the Base testnet. This can be done very easily through Apetemism’s Launchpad. To do this, connect your wallet to Apetemism’s Launchpad.
5. Enter any project name and set the network to Base Goerli (testnet).
6. Under Project Details, enter any project name, project description, and Twitter, Discord, and Slug names. Then upload two random images to be minted into an NFT and save.
7. Under Smart Contract, enter a random token name and a random token symbol. Then enter “1” for “Max Supply”, “First Token ID”, “Maximum Mint per Address”, and “Maximum Mint per Tx”. Finally, click “Switch Network to Save and Deploy” at the bottom. Confirm in your wallet to complete the smart contract creation.
8. Mint the Building on Base NFT, which requires the creation of a smart contract. If you successfully completed step four you should be ready to mint.
9. Connect your Discord account to the official Base Discord channel.
10. Create a GitHub account.
11. Join the official Base Guild and unlock all Discord roles. To do this, you must first link your Discord and Twitter accounts as well as your GitHub account.
12. To unlock all roles, mint the Base, Introduced NFT, and BASEd and Optimistic NFT. This will require between $15 and $35 in ETH, depending on gas costs at the time of minting. Alternatively, you can purchase these NFTs relatively cheaply on Open Sea.

What else can you do to increase your chances to qualify for the Base token airdrop?

Past token airdrops, such as those by Uniswap or DYDX, had relatively simple qualifying criteria, such as a one-time swap or any smart contract interaction to qualify for a token airdrop. With the growing popularity of “airdrop hunting”, where users create tens or even hundreds of wallets to qualify for potential future airdrops, newer airdrops by projects such as Optimism and Arbitrum have implemented stricter qualifying criteria to filter out users who genuinely use their product. Factors in these airdrops include, for example, the user’s interaction with the protocol over time, the frequency of interaction, or the total transaction value generated on the protocol. In the end, no one can predict the criteria a project will set for eligibility, but it certainly makes sense to look at other protocol’s airdrop criteria to create your own strategy to maximize your likelihood of receiving an airdrop.

1. Create a Coinbase wallet. You can do this with every other Ethereum wallet, but we recommend using the official coinbase wallet to maximize your chances of receiving this airdrop.

2. Visit the official Coinbase Goerli ETH testnet faucet and connect your wallet. Request 0.1 Goerli ETH. You can request 0.1 Goerli ETH every 24 hours.

3. Bridge ETH from the Goerli testnet to the Base testnet.

4. Create a smart contract on the Base testnet. This can be done very easily through Apetemism’s Launchpad. To do this, connect your wallet to Apetemism’s Launchpad.

5. Enter any project name and set the network to Base Goerli (testnet).

6. Under Project Details, enter any project name, project description, and Twitter, Discord, and Slug names. Then upload two random images to be minted into an NFT and save.

7. Under Smart Contract, enter a random token name and a random token symbol. Then enter “1” for “Max Supply”, “First Token ID”, “Maximum Mint per Address”, and “Maximum Mint per Tx”. Finally, click “Switch Network to Save and Deploy” at the bottom. Confirm in your wallet to complete the smart contract creation.

8. Mint the Building on Base NFT, which requires the creation of a smart contract. If you successfully completed step four you should be ready to mint.

9. Connect your Discord account to the official Base Discord channel.

10. Create a GitHub account.

11. Join the official Base Guild and unlock all Discord roles. To do this, you must first link your Discord and Twitter accounts as well as your GitHub account.

12. To unlock all roles, mint the Base, Introduced NFT, and BASEd and Optimistic NFT. This will require between $15 and $35 in ETH, depending on gas costs at the time of minting. Alternatively, you can purchase these NFTs relatively cheaply on Open Sea.