Base, Coinbase’s Layer 2 network, has introduced a Builder Grant Program offering up to $5,000 in seed funding to projects that are already live in its ecosystem and focused on building on Base. The initiative pairs capital with product and GTM (go-to-market) support, reflecting a common crypto growth strategy of using small grants and ecosystem distribution to deepen on-chain activity. Base said it will prioritize areas including prediction markets, token launch platforms, new asset issuance, consumer applications, and agents tied to trading, e-commerce and x402 implementation, while also covering DeFi (decentralized finance) protocols such as lending, looping leverage, yield aggregation, vaults and tokenized stocks. Selected projects will also receive monthly product and GTM feedback, faster technical support and introductions to ecosystem resources.