Jesse Pollak just dropped the kind of update every Base degen has been waiting for.

new daily ATH of 18.2m @base transactions 🟦

Yes — 18.2 million transactions in a single day. A brand new all-time high for the chain.

The Artemis chart Jesse shared tells the whole story: steady growth through 2024, huge spikes throughout 2025, and now a clear breakout above every previous record.

For context, most Layer 1 chains would kill for numbers like this on their best day. Base is doing it as an L2 — and doing it while staying cheap, fast, and fully EVM compatible.

What’s driving the surge? Exactly what you think.

Meme coin launches, perpetual degens rotating 24/7, Aerodrome and other native DEXs printing volume, and thousands of new wallets piling in every day. The same flywheel that made Base has been perfecting since 2023 is now running at warp speed.

The community reaction was immediate. Aerodrome wrote “You love to see it.” Others posted rocket emojis and “based af.” Even the inevitable Friend.tech nostalgia posts popped up — to which Jesse simply replied:

spikes today will look that small in a year or so :)

Translation: this record is just the warm-up.

With Coinbase continuing to push Base as the on-chain home for the next billion users, and with the meme coin meta still in full swing, days like this are becoming the new normal.

If you’re trading memes on Base or building the next big thing there, congratulations — you’re riding the hottest chain in crypto right now.

More records incoming. 🟦