The Base team won’t chase million-dollar token pumps, says Pollak. Responding to community concerns, Base co-founder Jesse Pollak confirmed the team won’t manipulate charts behind the scenes or favor certain assets. He clarified that the team will not privately coordinate or deploy capital to push an asset’s price toward a specific outcome, while adding…
The Government of Bermuda says it plans to transform the island into what it calls the world’s first fully on-chain national economy, in partnership with stablecoin issuer Circle and US-based crypto exchange Coinbase. The announcement was made at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, where Bermuda officials said the initiative will see digital…
CryptoRank data showed Base capturing nearly 70% of Ethereum L2 fee revenue in a single day, far ahead of Arbitrum. Base led Ethereum’s layer-2 fee rankings on January 14, generating about $147,000 in daily revenue, far ahead of Arbitrum’s roughly $39,000 and Starknet’s $9,000, according to figures shared by CryptoRank.io. The data points to…
Base’s new tokenized app blends social content, crypto trading, and payments, with stocks and prediction markets coming. Coinbase’s ‘Everything app’ has officially launched, bringing social features, trading, payments, and earning tools into a single platform. The cryptocurrency exchange has also confirmed plans to introduce stock trading and prediction markets on the platform. Tokenized Social…
A new bridge connecting Base, the layer 2 incubated by Coinbase, and the Solana blockchain is now live on mainnet, giving users and developers a way to move assets directly between the two ecosystems. Secured by Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and Coinbase, the Base-Solana bridge enables trading and usage of Solana-based tokens, including SOL…
Base, the Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution from crypto exchange Coinbase, has witnessed a surge in activity in the past two months and is now gunning for the top spot in the Ethereum ecosystem. In an interesting development revealed by data from IntoTheBlock, the transaction volume on Base has increased massively within this timeframe, with it…