The Base second-level blockchain, created by the crypto exchange Coinbase, continues to gain popularity. The volume of blocked assets in the new network is already close to $400 million, which exceeds the figures of such a veteran as Solana.

The last month has been extremely successful for the Base blockchain – the growth in capitalization of DeFi projects based on the new network was an impressive 97.21%. But users are gradually withdrawing funds from projects based on Solana – capitalization decreased by 9.64%.

The largest projects on the Base network are the decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Aerodrome Finance with a capitalization of $98 million and the decentralized social network Friend.tech, where users deposited $38.5 million. Moreover, the Aerodrome exchange was launched only on August 28, and already on August 31 the volume of blocked assets in smart -exchange contracts exceeded $150 million. Although then it began to gradually decline.

It is worth noting that the Base blockchain itself is popular. On September 14, the maximum number of transactions was recorded – over 1.8 million. For comparison, 880,000 transactions were carried out in the Optimism and Arbitrum networks during the same period.

It was recently reported that the Base network launched a threat monitoring system called Pessimism.