Assets supported by symbol
The CDP APIs support the following assets on the Base Sepolia & Mainnet networks to be identified by their symbols.Asset | Type | Base-Mainnet | Base-Sepolia | Description |
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Ether, also known as ETH | native | ✅ | ✅ | This is the native token of many networks that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), including Base. ETH is used to pay for transactions on the network, and the network provides native APIs to send, receive, and otherwise interact with ETH. |
USDC | ERC‑20 | ✅ | ✅ | backed 1:1 by a U.S. Dollar. |
WETH | ERC-20 | ✅ | ✅ | backed 1:1 by ETH. |
DAI | ERC-20 | ✅ | ➖ | Dai Stablecoin on Base-Mainnet. |
RETH | ERC-20 | ✅ | ➖ | Rocket Pool ETH on Base-Mainnet. |
BRETT | ERC-20 | ✅ | ➖ | Brett on Base-Mainnet. |
W | ERC-20 | ✅ | ➖ | Wormhole Token on Base-Mainnet. |
CBETH | ERC-20 | ✅ | ➖ | Coinbase Wrapped Ether on Base-Mainnet. |
AXL | ERC-20 | ✅ | ➖ | Axelar on Base-Mainnet. |
IOTX | ERC-20 | ✅ | ➖ | IoTeX on Base-Mainnet. |
PRIME | ERC-20 | ✅ | ➖ | Prime on Base-Mainnet. |
AERO | ERC-20 | ✅ | ➖ | Aerodrome on Base-Mainnet. |
RSR | ERC-20 | ✅ | ➖ | Reserve Rights on Base-Mainnet. |
MOG | ERC-20 | ✅ | ➖ | Mog Coin on Base-Mainnet. |
TBTC | ERC-20 | ✅ | ➖ | Base tBTC v2 on Base-Mainnet. |
NPC | ERC-20 | ✅ | ➖ | Non-Playable Coin on Base-Mainnet. |
YFI | ERC-20 | ✅ | ➖ | Yearn Finance on Base-Mainnet. |
Assets supported by contract address
Besides the assets listed in the above table, CDP APIs support all other ERC20 tokens using their respective contract addresses.Transfer an ERC20 from a wallet with contract address
The following example demonstrates how to create a transfer for USDC on Base-Sepolia using its contract address. Use Circle faucet to fund your wallet.Trade an ERC20 in a wallet with contract address
The following example demonstrates how to create a trade for USDC on Base-Mainnet using its contract address. Remember to fund your wallet with USDC to complete the trade.Fetch balances for assets
Fetch balance for assets identified by symbol
Fetch balance for assets identified by contract address
Denominations of ETH
ETH provides 18 places of decimal precision. The smallest amount of sendable ETH is 10-18, also known as a Wei. Commonly used denominations of ETH:Denomination | Amount in Wei | Description |
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Wei | 1 Wei | Smallest denomination of ETH |
Gwei | 109 Wei | Denomination of ETH commonly used for gas (i.e., transaction fee) calculations |
Ether / ETH | 1018 Wei | Largest denomination of ETH, commonly used for trading |
SDK DocumentationYou can refer to the Asset class SDK docs for a full list of supported methods.In Node.js, asset IDs are accessed through the assets property of the Coinbase class.
- ETH’s asset ID is
Coinbase.assets.Eth
- USDC’s asset ID is
Coinbase.assets.Usdc
- WETH’s asset ID is
Coinbase.assets.Weth