Base is a secure, low-cost, developer-friendly Ethereum L2 built to bring the next billion users onchain. It's built on Optimism’s open-source OP Stack.

1. Ensure nvm is installed.
2. Clone the repository.
3. If nvm doesn't auto-load the Node.js environment when changing to the repo directory, run nvm use.
4. Enable Yarn by running corepack enable.

After cloning the repository begin by installing dependencies at the root.

yarn
yarn build

To start a development server on localhost, run yarn workspace @app/<project> dev.

For example, to start the web app locally, you would run yarn workspace @app/web dev.

There are three projects which can be run individually.

yarn workspace @app/web dev

yarn workspace @app/base-docs dev

yarn workspace @app/bridge dev

We welcome contributions to Base! To contribute, please see CONTRIBUTING.md.