Overview
- Base will maintain compatibility with OP Stack standards and continue receiving support from Optimism as an OP Enterprise customer during the transition.
- OP Labs thanked Base for a three-year partnership and said it will keep serving the chain as Base builds out independent infrastructure.
- Base targets roughly six major upgrades per year and will shift node operators to track releases from the new base/base repository on a faster cadence.
- The team describes the change as largely technical with no immediate impact for everyday users or developers, and Base currently holds about $3.85 billion in locked value.
- The previously disclosed opportunity for Base to earn up to about 118 million OP tokens over six years remains unclear, and OP fell roughly 4% in the past 24 hours after the announcement.