Solana and Coinbase’s Base connect together using Chainlink

Solana and Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Base person been bridged unneurotic utilizing Chainlink’s exertion successful a determination to summation liquidity betwixt the 2 networks.

Base said connected Thursday that it launched a span connecting it to Solana secured by Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Coinbase, enabling seamless plus transfers.

The span is present unrecorded connected mainnet for builders to integrate, and rolling retired for anyone to usage successful apps, including Zora, Aerodrome, Virtuals, Flaunch, and Relay.

Users volition besides beryllium capable to commercialized Solana (SOL) and galore Solana-based assets connected Base. Base developers tin besides integrate the span to enactment Solana assets, specified arsenic SPL tokens, natively successful their apps.

Solana is the second-largest blockchain by worth locked, with $9 cardinal successful assets, portion Base is the sixth-largest with $4.5 cardinal successful assets, per DefiLlama. Both blockchains are known for their purpose to facilitate trading and debased fees.

A crosschain interoperability milestone 

The span is simply a method milestone, arsenic it joins Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible chains with Solana’s non-EVM architecture.

Base is besides positioning itself arsenic a hub for multichain enactment alternatively than competing solely wrong the EVM ecosystem, which could springiness it an vantage arsenic users progressively privation entree to assets crossed antithetic chains without managing aggregate wallets.

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Both Base and Solana person been chiefly utilized for memecoin minting and trading owed to their precocious throughput and debased transaction costs.

Activity connected Solana has been successful diminution for a year, with progressive addresses peaking astatine implicit 6 cardinal successful November 2024 and subsequently falling to their existent levels of 2.4 million, according to DefiLlama. 

Base progressive addresses person besides been successful diminution since peaking successful June 2025; however, the blockchain’s transaction number has risen this year, hitting a monthly peak of astir 407 cardinal successful November.

Solana progressive addresses person been falling this year. Source: DefiLlama

SOL and LINK commercialized down connected the day

The terms of the Solana token did not respond to the quality and dipped 3% connected the time to beneath $140. SOL is present down much than 50% from its January 2025 all-time precocious of implicit $293. 

Chainlink (LINK) besides dropped astir 3% connected the time to $14.30. LINK is present down 73% from its 2021 all-time precocious of astir $53, contempt the caller motorboat of the archetypal US spot LINK exchange-traded fund, arsenic altcoins person underperformed truthful acold this marketplace cycle. 

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