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Crypto followers have cumulatively spent $280,000 in transaction charges to mint greater than 28,000 Coinbase NFTs on Ethereum. The NFTs had been accessible to be minted without cost for many who needed to mark the testnet launch of Coinbase’s Layer 2 community, Base.
Coinbase launched Base right now as a Layer 2 community set to run on prime of the Ethereum mainnet. It is constructed on Optimism’s OP Stack and shall be a part of its “Superchain” — a reputation given to the Layer 2 networks constructed on the OP Stack which might be suitable with one another.
Base shall be a community for different protocols to construct on prime of and it’ll work together with Coinbase’s product suite, but it surely will not have a token.
To mark the community’s launch, Coinbase created a free mint NFT. The NFTs may be minted for 4 days following the announcement and are on the Ethereum mainnet. They look like similar and present a blue circle.
The NFTs can be found to be purchased and bought on NFT marketplaces like OpenSea. Presently they’ve a base value of 0.011 ETH ($18), which is round the price of shopping for one — by way of Ethereum transaction charges. These NFTs have already seen 150 ETH ($247,000) in buying and selling quantity.
Every Base NFT has a quantity and ones with decrease numbers appear to be promoting for extra. The best sale to date was the Base NFT 45, which was bought for 1.88 ETH ($3,100).
Optimism additionally has a free mint accessible for subscribers to its Mirror publication with the identical objective in thoughts. Up to now, 23,719 NFTs have been minted however since they’re on the Optimism community, the transactions charges paid shall be a lot decrease.