Base is seeing growing demand across tokenization and payments, and Pollack called blockchain launches from Robinhood and Stripe "validation."
Base is seeing growing demand across tokenization and payments, and Pollack called blockchain launches from Robinhood and Stripe "validation."
Corporate blockchains are multiplying, but Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong expects the boom to end in consolidation rather than coexistence. Over the past year, several corporate institutions and Wall Street giants, including Stripe, Circle, and Robinhood, have developed rails for stablecoins and institutional markets. Their expansion has revived concern that regulated companies with established distribution could […]
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Total value locked in Ethereum Layer 2s has slid back to roughly $5 billion, a level last seen in 2023.
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Coinbase is reshaping its Ethereum layer-2 network, Base, around trading, payments and tokenized assets as Robinhood’s new blockchain rapidly gains users and liquidity in many of the same markets. On July 15, Base creator Jesse Pollak acknowledged that the network’s earlier emphasis on social products had allowed it to lose ground in several of crypto’s […]
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Coinbase executive Jesse Pollak will focus on Base blockchain's infrastructure, prioritizing trading, stablecoin payments, and AI agents.
Coinbase is still trying to make on-chain activity feel less like a specialist task. Its latest Smart Wallet verification upgrade fits that broader effort, targeting a problem that becomes more obvious every time users m
Circle’s EURC launch on Base is a small but important stablecoin infrastructure move. It brings a native euro-denominated token to one of the most watched Ethereum layer-2 networks at a time when European regulation is
Visa's adjusted June data shows L2s competing for the dollar flows that could define crypto payments.
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Base block production resumed as of 16:11 UTC, following an alert to another mainnet chain stall at 15:33 UTC.
Base delayed its Beryl mainnet upgrade to June 26 to give the B20 Activation Registry time to become fully operational.
Coinbase's blockchain Base says a consensus problem knocked its network offline for around two hours on Thursday before it returned online.
Deposits and withdrawals have also been affected, while transactions are delayed or stalled, according to Base's status page.
Coinbase's Base network is targeting June 25 for its Beryl mainnet upgrade, introducing a B20 token standard aimed at lowering token creation and storage c
Base's Beryl upgrade introduces the B20 native token standard, cuts withdrawal delays to 5 days, and activates on mainnet June 25.
Coinbase and AWS are allowing publishers on CloudFront and WAF to charge AI agents for content via the x402 protocol.
Travala launched an agentic AI travel protocol on Base supporting gasless USDC hotel bookings and AI-assisted payment execution.
Base has deployed its Azul upgrade on mainnet, with multiproofs and a new client stack advancing decentralization.
With the integration, users will now be able to use natural language prompts to swap tokens, transfer funds, and interact with Base apps.
Korean won-denominated stablecoin KRWQ is expanding to Solana to support Korean won liquidity onchain.
Circle's $222 million ARC token presale has given Wall Street a new way to value the USDC issuer, while raising a harder question for one of crypto’s most profitable alliances. On May 11, Circle said investors led by a16z Crypto backed the presale of ARC, the native token for Arc, its planned public blockchain for […]
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Centrifuge will be the go-to platform for launching tokenized assets on Base, the Ethereum blockchain incubated by Coinbase.
Base, launched as an optimistic rollup, is hybridizing its tech stack with Succinct's SP1 zero-knowledge virtual machine.
Base rolled out its Azul upgrade on testnet, introducing multiproofs as the Coinbase-incubated Ethereum L2 eyes Stage 2 decentralization.
This comes as X is developing X Money, a payments system that is set to integrate cryptocurrencies into the platform.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Pump.fun tops $1 billion in revenue as domain records reveal Ethereum, Base, BSC, and Monad subdomains amid potential cross-chain expansion.
The platform is live on multiple EVM chains and powers the majority of token launches on Base, via integrations with apps like Zora and Bankr.
Last year, Coinbase relaunched the noncustodial Base App with social features like Creator Coins that have since been phased out.