Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is pushing back against calls for crypto to pivot to artificial intelligence, arguing AI agents will instead stoke demand for crypto-based financial services.Armstrong took to X on Sunday to tout agentic finance (AiFi), highlighting Coinbase’s Base network, USDC and x40…
Base is close to launching 1:1-backed tokenized equities, according to Jesse Pollak, creator of Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network.Pollak said in a Tuesday X post that Robinhood Chain, the recently launched Ethereum layer 2, had gotten tokenized equities in an EVM environment right, adding that Ba…
Base creator Jesse Pollak says he is stepping back from leading the Base App after admitting he made a “wrong bet” on social, leaving the chain to fall behind on prediction markets and perpetual futures.In a post to X on Wednesday, Pollak said he had bet that creator, content and messaging apps wou…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has called time on Base’s content coin era, telling critics the experiments did not work and that the network pivoted away from them earlier this year.Base, the Ethereum layer-2 network Coinbase launched in 2023, spent much of the past year chasing onchain trends. The b…
Coinbase-backed Ethereum layer-2 network Base is set to activate its B20 token standard on mainnet, introducing a native framework for stablecoins, tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and other fungible tokens.According to Base documentation, B20 is scheduled to go live at 6 pm UTC on the mainnet, e…
Most crypto investors still obsess over price charts. But in 2026, a growing share of attention is shifting back to improving the fundamentals of the protocols.Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche are preparing some of their largest protocol upgrades in years, while Coinbase’s Base network rolled out its…
Base said it experienced two mainnet block production interruptions on June 25 and 26, lasting about 116 minutes and 20 minutes, respectively. According to Foresight News, the network said the incidents did not affect on-chain asset security and that user funds remained available.Base attributed th…
A sequencer bug was responsible for two outages of the Coinbase layer-2 network Base last week, according to a post-mortem published on Saturday.In a blog, the Base engineering team said they identified a bug in sequencer block-building logic that allowed “stale journal state” to persist after a tr…
Base reported a second mainnet block production disruption within two days, with block production stopping at 15:33 UTC and resuming at 16:11 UTC after the team confirmed the issue. According to Odaily, Base said node operators need to restart Base mainnet nodes to complete resynchronization.Base s…
Base’s B20 token standard was set to open for issuers on June 26, but a second chain stall in two days has delayed the B20 token launch.The network finished its Beryl upgrade on June 25, which carries B20 alongside faster withdrawals and lighter node software. Switching on B20 issuance depends on a…
