Basenji wallet

What is Basenji (BENJI)?

A dog-themed token on Base, with a name chosen because the breed happens to carry the chain's name inside it. BENJI has no mechanics beyond that joke: it is a plain ERC-20 contract on Base, with a fixed balance that only changes when someone sends or receives it.

What matters for keeping it is the network underneath. Base addresses look exactly like Ethereum ones, and the same address holds your BENJI, so nothing marks a Base address as different from a mainnet one. Fees are paid in ETH on Base, not in BENJI and not in a separate gas coin, which means a wallet holding only BENJI cannot move it until a small amount of ETH sits on Base alongside it. That ETH has to arrive over a Base route; sending mainnet ETH to the same address leaves it on mainnet, where it is no help.

The ticker is also reused by unrelated tokens elsewhere in crypto, including tokenized fund products, so a BENJI listing somewhere else is not necessarily this one. Judge it by the chain it lives on.

Supported networks in Tangem (1): Base.

People tend to sit on a coin like this for a long time and touch it rarely. In Tangem the private key is created inside the card's chip and never leaves it, and a second identical card, kept somewhere else, restores the same address if the first one is lost; writing down a seed phrase stays your decision rather than a requirement. Holding a long-forgotten meme position behind a card in a drawer fits how the coin is actually used.