Despite the increase in total transactions, however, the number of active addresses on the network continues to decline, indicating that regular Base users are increasing their activity on the chain, rather than new capital entering the ecosystem.
Speculators on social media are under the impression that creators who have launched protocols or creator coins may stand to benefit the most from a Base airdrop.
Influencer and trader IcoBeast said on X, “The Base airdrop will be massive and still most will miss it because they're not able to read between the lines and are already just grinding out txns across a bunch of wallets. [In my opinion] Base team/eco has been extremely on the nose about how to qualify/juice allocation,” referring to a number of screenshots from Base builders that reference rewards for builders and creators.
Base founder Jesse Pollak responded to IcoBeast, saying, “one weird trick to benefiting from the new global economy: build, create, trade, and onboard people.”
While Pollak and the Base team continue to push the idea of rewarding creators, DEX volumes on Zora, the creator coin platform, are at their lowest since July, with just $6.26 million in volume between Sept. 15 and Sept. 21, after reaching as high as $54 million in weekly volume during the last month of July.
Zora DEX Volume - DeFiLlama
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