The chain & the launchpads

Base is Coinbase's Ethereum L2 (OP Stack, chain ID 8453) that settles to Ethereum, with ETH as the gas token and 2-second blocks. Basecompass watches it end-to-end.

The launchpads

Basecompass subscribes to every meaningful launch path:

• Clanker — the dominant memecoin deployer (Farcaster-owned); tokens launch straight into a Uniswap v4 pool with LP locked forever.
• Zora — creator & content coins from Zora and the Base app; born in a Uniswap v4 pool, priced in ZORA or the creator's own coin.
• flaunch — memecoin launchpad built on Uniswap v4 hooks; a 30-minute fixed-price fair launch, then open trading vs flETH.
• Doppler — the launch infrastructure behind Bankr, Ohara and others; a price-discovery auction first, then migration to a Uniswap pool with locked LP.
• Plus the raw Uniswap v2/v3/v4 factories as a catch-all, so no launch path is invisible — Virtuals agent graduations, for example, arrive there as plain DEX pools.

The data

On-chain reads and holder history from Blockscout; price, market cap, liquidity and volume from GeckoTerminal; honeypot and contract security from GoPlus; and basecompass's own on-chain sell-simulation. Where two sources disagree, the reading is labelled — never quietly resolved to "safe".