A New Day One for Base and a New Era for Onchain AI with Modelz
Jul 23, 2025
On July 16, Base introduced one of the most significant shifts in onchain infrastructure with the launch of the Base App. This new platform serves as an all-in-one, crypto-native everything app and hub for social experiences, payments, trading, and embedded mini-apps.
This launch is more than just a wallet upgrade. It marks the beginning of Base as a full-stack application platform that merges user-facing interfaces with powerful backend logic. Apps, agents, and users now coexist in a unified, composable ecosystem.
At Alpaca Network, we are excited to support this evolution. We are not only participants in the Base ecosystem, but also builders shaping how AI, agents, and models operate onchain. Our platform, Modelz.io, is designed to thrive in this new environment, offering value both as infrastructure for agentic applications and as a future app within the Base experience.
Modelz: Built for the New App Layer
Modelz is Alpaca Network’s protocol for turning open-source AI models into tokenized onchain assets. These models can be backed through Initial Model Offerings (IMOs) and used by agents, dApps, and automated systems throughout the Base ecosystem.
With the Base App redefining how people discover and interact with onchain tools, Modelz plays two key roles that directly complement this vision.
1. Modelz as Infrastructure for Agentic Applications
Many of the most innovative apps inside the Base App will be powered by autonomous agents. These agents might run prediction markets, assist with content curation, manage DeFi positions, or handle user interactions in real time.
Every agent relies on one or more models. Modelz provides the infrastructure to:
Tokenize and govern the models that agents depend on
Align developers and users through shared model ownership and incentives
Build agent-based applications with verifiable, transparent intelligence
By offering permissionless access to tokenized models, Modelz ensures that AI agents on Base are both accountable and composable. It brings liquidity and governance to the very core of intelligence itself.
2. Modelz as a Future Mini-App in the Base Ecosystem
Looking ahead, we aim to bring Modelz directly into the Base App as a mini-app, giving users an intuitive, onchain-native way to explore and participate in the AI model economy.
This future mini-app will allow users to:
Discover trending and community-backed tokenized models
Launch their own open-source model tokens through the Modelz platform
Participate in Initial Model Offerings and support models they believe in
By integrating Modelz into the Base App, we hope to lower the barrier to engaging with tokenized AI and make model creation, discovery, and usage accessible to everyone onchain.
🤝 Base and Modelz: Advancing the Onchain App Economy Together
With the introduction of the Base App, Base is moving beyond infrastructure. It is becoming a home for applications, agents, and communities that thrive on composability and onchain trust.
At Alpaca Network, we believe this future requires a new kind of AI stack. Intelligence must be open-source, tokenized, and governed by its users. It must be compatible with the onchain app layer that Base is building.
Modelz helps deliver that future.
Whether you are developing an agent, exploring the Base App feed, or contributing to the next generation of open models, Modelz is here to power your journey.
→ Back a model. Train an agent. Build the future.
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