# Based > Trade everything, spend everywhere Based lets users trade spot and perpetual futures on Hyperliquid, access prediction markets, and spend crypto balances with a Visa debit card. Based serves crypto traders and on-chain users seeking access to multiple market types and real-world spending from a single account. Users can trade perpetuals and spot markets, participate in prediction markets, and spend balances directly at merchants via the Based Visa Card without manually off-ramping funds. The platform is accessible across web, iOS, Android, and desktop, with deposits supported from multiple blockchain networks. - Type: Company - Sector: Finance - Status: Active - Founded: 2023-09-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/based ## Products - [Based](https://thegrid.id/profiles/based): Based is a trading platform providing access to Hyperliquid perpetual futures and spot markets alongside Polymarket prediction markets. Users trade spot and leveraged instruments from a single account across web, iOS, Android, and desktop interfaces. The platform includes charting tools, multiple order types, portfolio management, and integrated prediction market access across politics, sports, crypto, and other categories. (Trading Terminal, Live, Main Product) - [Based Launchpad](https://thegrid.id/profiles/based): Based Launchpad is a token launch platform for the Based ecosystem using a FairShare mechanism to determine participant allocations. The associated Launchpool feature provides $BASED stakers priority access to new project launches within the Based ecosystem. (Launch Pad, In Development) - [Based AI](https://thegrid.id/profiles/based): Based AI is an AI inference gateway and consumer product suite built on Hyperliquid. The AI Gateway provides access to major AI models through a single API endpoint, with usage billed via x402 micro-transactions settled on Hyperliquid. Consumer products built on the gateway include a browser-based AI chat interface, Based Page for publishing web content to live URLs directly from AI conversations, and Agent Mail providing email mailboxes for AI agents at the basedmail.ai domain. (AI Agent Platform, Live) ## Assets - [Based (BASED)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/based): BASED is the utility token of the Based ecosystem, issued by the Based Foundation. It is used for paying reduced trading fees, earning cashback on the Based Visa Card, accessing the Based Launchpool, and unlocking staking rewards. The token is deployed across Ethereum, BSC, and Hyperliquid using the LayerZero OFT standard, allowing cross-chain transfers via Stargate without requiring separate wrapped token deployments. (Utility) - [BasedPals (BASEDPALS)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/based): BasedPals is the genesis NFT collection of the Based ecosystem. NFTs are distributed through Blind Boxes earned from trading on the platform and community campaigns on X. The collection trades on secondary markets including drip.trade on Hyperliquid and OpenSea. (NFT) ## Links - [Main](https://www.basedapp.io) - [Blog](https://blog.basedapp.io) - [Documentation](https://basedapp.gitbook.io/docs) - [Media Kit/branding](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16IXfdKFUp8UKyMvT3gWd7mItqgRDDE2a) - [Main](https://based.one) - [Privacy policy](https://blog.basedapp.io/privacy) - [Terms of Service](https://blog.basedapp.io/terms) - [Discord](https://discord.gg/basedapp) - [Telegram](https://t.me/BasedOneX) - [Telegram](https://t.me/basedkr) - [Telegram](https://t.me/basedchinese) - [Telegram](https://t.me/based_LATAM) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/BasedOneX) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/BasedPalsNFT) ## Legal This data is provided under two licensing models. Model 1 - open data. 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