Layer 2 is always a fertile land for people to hunt for retroactives and look for huge airdrop opportunities ranging from several thousand to tens of thousands of dollars, the most prominent being Arbitrum and Optimism. In this article Weakhand will give you a guide to hunting for retroactive Base, a new Layer 2 mainnet built by Coinbase.
Other projects also have retroactive capabilities:
- Retroactive DeBank Hunting Guide
- Retroactive LayerZero Hunting Guide
- Retroactive Hunting Guide Project zkSync Era
- Retroactive Linea Network Mainnet Hunting Guide
Base Overview
Base is a Layer 2 built on the Ethereum ecosystem using OP Stack developed by Optimism. The Base build team are people from Coinbase, the largest Crypto exchange in the US market at present.
Because the Coinbase exchange has been listed on the US stock market, many people believe that Layer 2 Base will never issue tokens. However, we can still rely on some evidence such as the vision of decentralization or the fact that the SEC is making things difficult for Coinbase, leading to this exchange moving to a more crypto-friendly country.
Retroactive Base Hunting Guide
Step 1: Add network to Metamask wallet
- Visit: https://chainlist.org/
- Search and add Base network to Metamask wallet (Chain ID 8453).
Step 2: Transfer assets to Base
Transfer ETH using main bridge
- Visit: https://bridge.base.org/deposit
- Connect to the Ethereum network and transfer ETH to Base.
Transfer USDC with Stargate
- Visit: https://stargate.finance/transfer
- Transfer USDC from another Layer 2 to Base to save costs as much as possible.
- In this step everyone will be able to receive retroactive from both Base and LayerZero.
Step 3: Use DEXs
SushiSwap
- Visit: https://www.sushi.com/swap
- Connect to SushiSwap using the Base network.
- Conduct swap and provide liquidity with USDC transferred from Stargate.
Balancer
- Visit: https://app.balancer.fi/#/base
- Conduct swaps and provide liquidity on Balancer.
Step 4: Buy and sell NFTs on OpenSea
- Visit: https://opensea.io/
- Buy and sell NFTs on the Base network using OpenSea.
Step 5: Perform social networking tasks
- Perform missions at Galxe: https://galxe.com/base/campaign
- Join Base’s guild:
Summary
Above are detailed instructions for hunting retroactive Base from Weakhand. Although this ecosystem is quite new, the puzzle pieces are quite complete, so don’t forget to experience them all to not miss the airdrop opportunity in the future.
