Base
Coinbase's low-fee Ethereum layer 2, popular for consumer apps and onchain social.
- Symbol
- ETH (18 decimals)
- Family
- EVM
- Chain ID
- 8453
- Address format
- Same 0x + 40 hex format as Ethereum; the same address exists on every EVM chain.
- Example
0xd8dA6BF26964aF9D7eEd9e03E53415D37aA96045- Block explorer
- basescan.org
- Public RPC
https://mainnet.base.org- Developer docs
- docs.base.org
- Live lookups
- Supported
Same address, many chains
An EVM address is just a public key hash, so the same 0x… string exists on every EVM chain. Nothing in the address says which network it was meant for - sending on the wrong one can strand funds. Use the wrong-chain guard before you send.
Try it for Base
Paste an address in the guard or call the API:
curl "https://useanychain.com/api/v1/guard?address=0xd8dA6BF26964aF9D7eEd9e03E53415D37aA96045&chain=base"
curl "https://useanychain.com/api/v1/chains/base"