Coinbase’s new super app Base is a game changer—and could become a serious money maker

I’ve covered Coinbase since it was a tiny startup but have never seen anything quite like what the crypto giant rolled out this Wednesday. At a carefully produced stage event in Los Angeles, the company unveiled an app called Base, which is named for Coinbase’s own blockchain, and is billed as a “super app” that offers everything from payments to AI agents to a social network.

All of this isn’t exactly new. For years, Coinbase and other crypto firms have been fiddling with blockchain-based...