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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 obtainable to be minted free of charge for many who needed to mark the testnet launch of Coinbase’s Layer 2 community, Base.
Coinbase launched Base in the present day as a Layer 2 community set to run on prime of the Ethereum mainnet. It is constructed on Optimism’s OP Stack and will probably be a part of its “Superchain” — a reputation given to the Layer 2 networks constructed on the OP Stack which can be suitable with one another.
Base will probably 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 seem like similar and present a blue circle.
The NFTs can be found to be purchased and bought on NFT marketplaces like OpenSea. At the moment they’ve a base value of 0.011 ETH ($18), which is round the price of shopping for one — when it comes to 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 very best sale to date was the Base NFT 45, which was bought for 1.88 ETH ($3,100).
Optimism additionally has a free mint obtainable for subscribers to its Mirror e-newsletter with the identical goal in thoughts. Thus far, 23,719 NFTs have been minted however since they’re on the Optimism community, the transactions charges paid will probably be a lot decrease.