While a date for mainnet wasn’t announced, the Base team said it’s now fulfilled four out of five of their criteria for launch. Base, a new layer 2 application-focused protocol by Coinbase, has just ...

Coinbase’s layer-2 blockchain Base is officially launching its mainnet to the public on August 9, alongside its “Onchain Summer” collaboration, Jesse Pollak, lead for Base and head of protocols at ...

Coinbase has launched "Base," an Ethereum scaling network, which is already competitive with other top ETH L2 chains. As a single sequencer chain, Coinbase controls how fee revenue from network ...

Base is an Ethereum Layer 2 network developed by Coinbase that uses optimistic rollups to execute transactions off-chain while settling and securing them on Ethereum. As Ethereum activity increasingly ...

For the casual observer, the unstoppable rise of blockchain and associated Web3 technologies seems serene, but like a swan there’s always a lot going on under the surface – and I can’t remember a time ...

At 9:19 a.m. on February 22, 2023, Coinbase tweeted a single blue dot. The cryptic cobalt emoji, accompanied by a simple date — “2.23.23” — hung in the ether of Twitter’s timeline. A few minutes later ...

Base, the layer-2 blockchain from U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase that helps users transact on Ethereum with lower fees, appears to be struggling to keep up with a new wave in network activity, ...

Coinbase explained that it is now “more important than ever” to build an inflation-tracking stablecoin that negates economic uncertainty caused by the legacy financial system. Crypto exchange Coinbase ...

A lot of the buzz in blockchain tech circles this year has been over the push toward secondary "layer-2" networks atop Ethereum being built on "zero-knowledge" cryptography, or ZK – seen by many ...

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