Does Base have a native token?
Interestingly, Coinbase has maintained that it has no plans to issue a native token on Base. Instead, users can pay gas fees for transactions on Base with ETH. While Base is still working to achieve Stage 1 decentralization, which it describes as including “limited training wheels,” it has not yet opted to incentivize more validator nodes. 

Of course, native tokens can have many important functions, most notably relating to the governance of a blockchain and as a reward for network validator nodes. Thus, in the future, as the blockchain becomes more decentralized, a native governance token could be useful for validators to earn rewards.