TLDR Tech / Crypto
Request for Builders: Funding the Future of Global Finance
Base's Ecosystem Fund published a Request for Builders spanning six high-conviction verticals, directing pre-seed and seed capital toward startups building financial infrastructure on the L2. Priority areas include tokenized alternative yield-bearing assets (invoice financing, REITs, and private credit funds), DeFi-accessible securities-backed credit lines built on tokenized brokerage portfolios, and stablecoin distribution networks targeting de-facto dollarized markets including Argentina, Venezuela, and Lebanon. The credit vertical calls for zkTLS-based underwriting that combines off-chain salary and bank account data with onchain credit history, enabling unsecured consumer lending without centralized data brokers. An agentic commerce vertical identifies AI-driven shopping, booking, and ticketing agents as stablecoin volume drivers, with x402 named as the intended payment protocol for machine-to-merchant transactions.
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