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Memecoin mania hits Base: Obscure tokens skyrocket amid rug pulls and FOMO
31.7.2023
Memecoin traders have been buying up obscure tokens such as Bald and Based, which have each seen staggering price gains despite questionable utility
New Optimism wallet lets users receive crypto via Twitter login
27.7.2023
Beam wallet uses Web3Auth and account abstraction to allow for seedless accounts, stablecoin gas payments, and other user experience features
Today in Crypto: BNB Chain Report Shows Web3 Growth Despite Bear Market, Beam Wallet Leveraging Optimism and Base Launches, Binance Withdraws its Crypto License Application in Germany
27.7.2023
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Worldcoin Migrates to Optimism
24.7.2023
Worldcoin, the decentralized ID and wallet protocol, has migrated its operations to Optimism, an Ethereum L2 scaling layer. With this move, Worldcoin aims to prepare for its future launch, taking advantage of the scalability features that its deployment on Optimism brings, including migrating user...
Charting Bitcoin’s Predictable Course: A Comprehensive Review of the Next 29 Reward Halvings
22.7.2023
In under 280 days, Bitcoin’s blockchain will undergo its fourth reward halving event, slicing the block subsidy from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC. The crypto community is abuzz with chatter, contemplating how these substantial decreases in block rewards will transpire over the ensuing two decades...
Massive Crypto Adoption Ahead: Jesse Pollak of Coinbase Expects 8 Billion On-Chain
21.7.2023
As many as 8 billion people will become crypto and blockchain users over the next decade, according to Coinbase protocols lead Jesse Pollak.
Speaking with Decrypt during the EthCC conference in Paris on Wednesday, Pollak said that although crypto adoption has grown rapidly in recent years, there...
Coinbase's Base launches mainnet for builders, will onboard users in August
13.7.2023
Base’s layer-2 mainnet has launched, allowing builders to deploy contracts, while users will be welcomed to the network in August
Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer-2 Network, Base, Nears Mainnet Launch
30.6.2023
Coinbase’s layer 2 blockchain, Base, is preparing its mainnet launch after completing a series of security audits.
Base aims to attract as much as one million new crypto users in the next few years, Coinbase said in a press release.
Built on the OP stack in partnership with Optimism, Base’s...
Coinbase's Base Prepares for Mainnet Launch With Slew of Security Audits
29.6.2023
The layer 2 blockchain pioneered by Nasdaq-listed crypto exchange Coinbase has detailed the security testing taken ahead of its public launch later this year
Digital Asset Trust Firm Bitgo Sets Sights on Prime Trust Acquisition
9.6.2023
In a recent development, Bitgo, the digital asset trust firm, disclosed that it has penned a letter of intent to acquire Prime Trust, a crypto custodian based in Nevada. Should the acquisition proceed, Prime Trust would become an integral part of Bitgo’s network of regulated trust companies....
Optimism successfully completes ‘Bedrock’ hard fork, reducing deposit times, layer-1 fees
6.6.2023
The upgrade is part of a series of reforms meant to increase modularity in the OP Stack, allowing developers to spin up their own networks using the software
Coinbase's Base network publishes 'path to mainnet' outlining roadmap
24.5.2023
The testnet must perform the Bedrock upgrade and go through audits and stability tests before mainnet launch
Coinbase share price spikes 7.9% as Q1 results beat expectations
5.5.2023
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong called the quarter a "turning point" for the company as it worked towards a more "financially disciplined" firm
Today in Crypto: Intel Discontinues Bitcoin Mining Chips Production, a16z Crypto Teases a New Launch, LUKSO's Genesis Validator Deposit Smart Contract Going Live on Thursday
19.4.2023
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MicroStrategy’s Saylor fuses work email address with Bitcoin Lightning
18.4.2023
Fans of the Bitcoin bull have been transferring him 21 Satoshis as a way to test out the feature
Coinbase CEO says Bitcoin Lightning is 'something we’ll integrate'
10.4.2023
“Lightning is great and something we’ll integrate,” Armstrong said in response to an allegation that he was “ignoring” the network
Coinbase Urges Creation of Stablecoins That Preserve Purchasing Power Amid Dispute with SEC
28.3.2023
The US-based crypto exchange Coinbase is calling on developers to create a new and inflation-proof stablecoin for its own blockchain.
The call for the new type of stablecoin came in a blog post on Thursday where the exchange said it is “particularly interested in ‘flatcoins’ – stablecoins that...
Coinbase wants devs to build inflation-pegged 'flatcoins' on its new 'Base' network
27.3.2023
Coinbase explained that it is now “more important than ever” to build an inflation-tracking stablecoin that negates poor monetary policy decisions of central banks
Crypto Exchange GMX Proposes Deployment on Coinbase's Base Blockchain
21.3.2023
Decentralized derivatives exchange GMX has community support over deploying the protocol on Coinbase's (COIN) recently-announced layer 2 blockchain, Base
Moody’s Downgrades US Banking Sector to Negative After Collapse of Three Major Banks
14.3.2023
After the failure of three major U.S. banks last week, with two of them being the second and third largest banking failures in the country, Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the rating of the U.S. banking system from “stable” to “negative.” As one of...