Base launches $100,000 builder competition for tokenized stock products

Coinbase's layer 2 network is running a month-long contest that rewards real onchain usage over polished pitch decks Base is putting up more than $100,000 in prizes to get developers building around tokenized stocks. The Coinbase-backed Ethereum layer 2 network kicked off a month-long builder competition on November 5, 2026, branded as “Stocks Maxxing Season.” Submissions are due December 5, 2026. Builders can enter brand-new apps or upgrade projects that already exist, as long as the work ties back to tokenized equities. How the competition works The contest is split into three tracks. Meme and Community Economies is the first. Agentic Stock Finance is the second, covering apps where programs, not just people, interact with tokenized equities. Programmable Stock Markets rounds out the list. The scoring breakdown is where things get interesting. Half of each project’s score, 50%, comes from traction, defined as real onchain usage. Product quality accounts for 25%, and public build activity makes up the remaining 25%. Building in public gets its own reward too. A $6,000 prize is reserved for the best project developed out in the open. One notable rule: participants do not need to la...