Base records $500 million in weekly trading volume as tokenized stocks gain ground

Base, the Ethereum layer 2 network built by Coinbase, reported $500 million in trading volume for the prior week in an October 8, 2026 announcement. A good chunk of the recent energy has come from tokenized stocks, which are blockchain-based tokens representing shares of traditional companies. A half-billion-dollar week on Base How the $500 million breaks down across asset types is still unclear. Tokenized stocks are a major contributor, but the precise split between those and other assets like stablecoins or native crypto tokens has not been broken out. For context, Base hit a single-day record of $100 million in tokenized-stock DEX volume in September. The new weekly total works out to roughly five days at that record pace. Monthly figures show the same trend. Thirty-day totals for tokenized-stock DEX volume on Base have been reported anywhere between $730.9 million and approximately $1.3 billion, depending on the methodology. Aerodrome runs the table Aerodrome, Base’s dominant native exchange, captured approximately 76% of tokenized-stock trading volume. Uniswap v4 took approximately 19%. From zero to $100 million in 26 days Coinbase launched Base-native tokenized stocks on Augu...