Randall Fransen

On ChainSummer II

Still from the Onchain Summer film: the Onchain Summer wordmark in blue

OCSII was the follow-up to2023’s initiative of engagingbuilders and bringing the“next billion users on-chain.”

Client
Coinbase
Project
On Chain Summer II
Category
Web3

On Chain Summer was launched with a buildathon and subsequent grants for builders to use Base for their projects.

What I did

Production for all creative deliverables online and IRL

Animated Onchain Summer wordmark in white on blue

TL;DR: Base invited builders around the world to join the Onchain Summer Buildathon, a global month-long online hackathon with 200 ETH ($600K) in total prizes. Sponsors include Stripe, Shopify, Farcaster, Zora, Fleek, thirdweb, Nouns, Aerodrome, and Synthetix.

Key Highlights:

One of the largest onchain hackathon prize pools ever: Each track offers 20 ETH in total rewards, with 2-10 winning teams selected from each track.

X Eight sponsored tracks: Our tracks cover payments, discovery, creators, social interaction, gaming, commerce, community engagement, and trading; each of these focuses on usability and mainstream adoption using onchain technologies.

Coinbase bonus pool: In addition to the track rewards, we're adding a bonus pool of 40 ETH for builders using the following tools to superpower their onchain apps: Coinbase Smart Wallet, Coinbase Verifications, Coinbase Developer Platform Paymaster, and OnchainKit.