Key takeaways
- The Base Batches accelerator is the chain's own filter for real apps.
- For a player, that is not hype.
The Base Batches accelerator is the chain's own filter for real apps. For a player, that is not hype. It is a signal that the chain itself is filtering for apps with real onchain activity, and the same filter works in your hands: read the rules in a contract, verify a round after it settles, and look at activity instead of follower counts. Here is how to run all three before you connect a wallet to anything, including my game.
What is the Base Batches accelerator, and why should a player care?
The Base Batches accelerator is Base’s official program for early-stage teams. Base describes it as run by the Base Ecosystem Fund, launched in 2025, twice a year, for a small group of early-stage teams building on Base, with Batch 004 as its fourth cohort. Applications for this cohort opened in August 2026.
The terms are public. Each selected team is offered a $100K investment from the Base Ecosystem Fund, subject to the fund’s diligence review, then eight focused weeks of hands-on support, with the program culminating in Demo Day in New York. Base says it wants companies in trading, payments, agents, financing and asset issuance that can help grow the onchain economy, and the support is an eight-week virtual program with a dedicated advisor and weekly help.
Here is why that matters to someone who has been rugged before. A chain that pays to find its next product is a chain running a filter on founders, a team and a story, and this round drew a record number of applications, more than 750, which means the filter is doing most of the work. You can run a smaller version of it yourself in about ten minutes.
Check one: can you read the rules in a contract?
Open the contract and read the rules yourself. If an app will not tell you its contract address, that is the answer, and you can stop there.
Verification is what makes this possible. Basescan explains that source code verification provides transparency by matching the compiled code with the code deployed on the blockchain, after which the source is publicly available, and Base’s own documentation adds that verifying maps the names of functions and variables to the compiled bytecode so you can interact with the contract. Plain words: a verified contract is a receipt you can read.
Mine are these. The $TTS token on Base is 0x5570eA97d53A53170e973894A9Fa7feb5785d3b9, an ERC-20 with 18 decimals, deployed directly and not behind a proxy, so it is not upgradeable. The voting contract is 0x783b8cd80b586b723188c93ef94ee1beede617b4, and it is the thing that sets the split, the 5 $TTS minimum vote, the rule that refuses a vote that would lift one profile above 40% of all $TTS voted in a round, and the round end of Monday 04:59:00 UTC. I did not write those numbers in a blog post for you to trust. They are in the code.
Check two: can you verify a round after it settles?
Yes, or you walk away. A fair game is one where you can check the result after the fact, not one that tells you it was fair while the money moves somewhere you cannot see.
The randomness has to be checkable too. Chainlink documents VRF as a provably fair and verifiable source of randomness for smart contracts, usable as a tamper-proof random number generator. When a round closes, Chainlink VRF draws the winning profile at random, weighted by tickets. More votes give a profile better odds. No profile is guaranteed to win, and I will not make a prediction about any round.
Then the settlement transaction does everything in one place. The voting contract pays every share in $TTS straight to the recipients’ wallets, mints three TTS Round Trophy NFTs — one to the winning profile, one to the top voter, one to the house — and sends all $TTS left in the contract to the burn address 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD. One transaction, every line of it readable. I wrote up the whole sequence in vote-to-earn round mechanics and the draw itself in provably fair voting.
Check three: does the app show activity or follower counts?
Look for transactions, not audiences. A follower count is a number somebody bought. Onchain activity is a number somebody earned, and it sits on a public network you can query without asking permission.
So go look. Base’s documentation lists Base Mainnet as chain ID 8453 with basescan.org as its block explorer, and notes Base is a standard EVM chain, so any Ethereum tool or wallet works unchanged. Paste a contract address into that explorer and you will see whether anything is happening: new wallets, weekly volume, settlements landing on schedule, or silence.
This is the same instinct behind reading a leaderboard properly rather than a screenshot of one, which I walked through in Base App leaderboards explained. A real product leaves a trail. A launch with a marketing budget leaves a graphic.
Does Temptation Token pass its own three checks?
Yes, and I want to be careful about how I say that. Passing those three checks is the bar for building on Base at all. It is not a boast, and it is not a claim about anything the Base Ecosystem Fund has or has not selected. I am not telling you my team is in a cohort.
What I can tell you is what runs. Temptation Token ($TTS) is a vote-to-earn game on Base mainnet, chain ID 8453, operated by Blockchain Entertainment LLC. One round lasts one week and closes on Sunday night, US Eastern time. Up to 50 approved profiles compete. Players vote by sending $TTS to the voting contract on a profile they choose. Without a club, the pool — which is only the $TTS voted on the winning profile — splits 35% to the top voter, 35% to the winning profile’s wallet, 10% to the charity wallet and 20% to the house; with a registered club code it is 35%, 35%, 10% charity, 10% to the club and 10% to the house.
The charity share is not a promise, it is a line in the contract: 10% goes to the charity wallet 0xf7dD429D679CB61231e73785fD1737E60138ABa3, which the site and app label as Polaris Project donations, and I showed a week of it in crypto for charity. The site and the app also say this, and I mean it: “$TTS is a utility token for playing the contest. Entrants must be 18+ and pass a one-time ID check. Payments are handled by third-party providers on their terms, not ours. Operated by Blockchain Entertainment LLC.”
What should you do before your first vote?
Run the checks in order, then play small. The short version is four steps, and none of them require you to spend anything to start.
- First, get a wallet on Base and fund it with a small amount of ETH for gas. I wrote the beginner version in play wallet on Base.
- Second, connect it. The app is at app.temptationtoken.io, and the walkthrough is in connect wallet to Base. A new wallet receives a one-time signup bonus of 500 $TTS when it first connects, paid by the operator from its own wallet, and the operator caps how many of those it pays each day.
- Third, read the contract before you vote, not after. The addresses are above.
- Fourth, place the smallest vote the game allows and watch one round settle end to end. No purchase is needed to play: the signup bonus covers votes at the 5 $TTS minimum.
One warning the app shows for a reason: “⚠ Verify your address carefully. Transactions on Base are irreversible. Blockchain Entertainment LLC bears no responsibility for funds sent to incorrect addresses.” And the other one, which people learn the hard way: “Votes are final and non-refundable.” If a game hides either of those sentences from you, it is not hiding good news. New players can find the rest in the user guide.
Frequently asked questions
When is Base Batches 004 Demo Day, and where is it?
Demo Day for this cohort is set for New York on November 17, 2026, at the end of the eight-week program, according to Crypto Briefing’s report on the cohort. Selected founders present to a curated room of investors. It is the public end point of the accelerator, and the reason the question of who is really building on Base gets loud every cohort.
Demo Day for this cohort is set for New York on November 17, 2026, at the end of the eight-week program, according to Crypto Briefing’s report on the cohort. Selected founders present to a curated room of investors. It is the public end point of the accelerator, and the reason the question of who is really building on Base gets loud every cohort.
Is Base Batches a grant program?
No. Base is also clear that applying does not guarantee funding. That distinction matters for a player, because a funding offer comes with diligence, and diligence means somebody reads the code.
No. Base is also clear that applying does not guarantee funding. That distinction matters for a player, because a funding offer comes with diligence, and diligence means somebody reads the code.
Do I need ETH on Base to vote with $TTS?
Yes. Every Base transaction needs a small amount of ETH on Base for gas, including your vote. $TTS carries a 1% transfer tax on transfers where neither side is tax-exempt, but the voting contract and the Uniswap V2 pool are tax-exempt, so votes and swaps in that pool carry no transfer tax.
Yes. Every Base transaction needs a small amount of ETH on Base for gas, including your vote. $TTS carries a 1% transfer tax on transfers where neither side is tax-exempt, but the voting contract and the Uniswap V2 pool are tax-exempt, so votes and swaps in that pool carry no transfer tax.
Can I take a vote back if I change my mind?
No. Votes are final and non-refundable once placed, and they cannot be withdrawn or reduced. You can add more votes during the same round, and you can vote on more than one profile. A wallet with no eligible stake can vote at most 500 $TTS in a single vote transaction, and it may vote again.
No. Votes are final and non-refundable once placed, and they cannot be withdrawn or reduced. You can add more votes during the same round, and you can vote on more than one profile. A wallet with no eligible stake can vote at most 500 $TTS in a single vote transaction, and it may vote again.
How do I get my own photo into a round?
Upload it in the app’s Submit tab. Each submission costs 5 $TTS paid to the house and is non-refundable whether approved or rejected, and a wallet can make up to 3 submissions per week. Photos must be safe for work, an admin reviews every one, and a wallet’s first submission needs a one-time ID and selfie check.
Upload it in the app’s Submit tab. Each submission costs 5 $TTS paid to the house and is non-refundable whether approved or rejected, and a wallet can make up to 3 submissions per week. Photos must be safe for work, an admin reviews every one, and a wallet’s first submission needs a one-time ID and selfie check.
The Bottom Line
The Base Batches accelerator pays to find Base’s next apps. That does you a favour, whether or not you ever apply. It tells you what the filter looks for, and the filter is simple enough to borrow: rules you can read, a result you can verify, activity instead of applause. Run those three checks on every Base game you are offered, starting with mine, because the game that minds you checking is the game you should be nervous about.
Then try one round. One round, one vote, at the minimum, and watch the settlement transaction land. If it holds up, you will know more about this than most people in the chat. Join at app.temptationtoken.io, and if something in the contracts does not read right to you, email me at jim@temptationtoken.io and tell me which line.
Play at app.temptationtoken.io.
Sources
- Base Batches — official Base accelerator
- Introducing Base Batches 004 — Base blog
- Base accepts applications for Batches 004 — Crypto Briefing
- Base Batches 004 teams to be announced September 29 after record applications — Crypto Briefing
- Connect to Base — Base Documentation (network information)
- Contract Verification — Base Documentation
- Verifying Contracts — Basescan Information Center
- Introduction to Chainlink VRF — Chainlink Documentation
Nothing here is financial advice. Digital assets carry risk, including the risk of total loss.
