Base aims to build a global onchain economy by scaling its gas target to 250 Mgas/s by 2025, significantly reducing gas fees. In Q1, it achieved 25 Mgas/s, with plans to reach 50 Mgas/s by the end of Q2. The article outlines progress on scaling bottlenecks, including improvements from the upcoming Pectra hard fork and advancements in client execution speed and fault proof systems.