Since Base's major adjustment, its strategic direction seems to no longer be just a simple L2 but aims to become an on-chain financial operating system. However, achieving this goal requires a lot of truly valuable financial applications (they’ve taken quite a few detours in the past). This time, Base has made it very clear that they’re openly seeking and supporting specific directions, focusing on stablecoins, RWA asset tokenization, AI financial applications, and more. Basically, they’re saying: if you come, I’m willing to provide funding and resources. The timing is also quite interesting. Robinhood has been super popular lately, rapidly extending the traditional brokerage entry point onto the blockchain in a very down-to-earth way. Facing such competition, Base isn’t just sitting idle, but aside from attracting developers, what will their real killer move be? Token issuance might be the answer the market is most looking forward to.