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Base Ships Cobalt With Conditional Transactions And A Seize Function

The year's third Base upgrade lets traders submit transactions that stay dormant until price or block conditions are met, and adds three changes to the B20 token standard behind Coinbase's tokenized stocks. Base's documentation for the new transaction method lists it as running on test networks.

Circle Launches Arc Mainnet With BlackRock, DTCC and Visa Producing Blocks

The Layer 1 charges gas in USDC and runs proof-of-authority across a permissioned set of 11 institutions plus Circle. More than 100 applications are live at launch, with Aave, Morpho and Uniswap anchoring DeFi. Circle minted 10 billion ARC tokens this week without committing to a public launch.

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Circle Launches Arc Mainnet With BlackRock, DTCC and Visa Producing Blocks

Circle Adds Native USDC, EURC and CCTP Support to Plasma

Circle Targets Sept. 16 for Arc Public Mainnet Launch

BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stalls at Two Blocks as Its Only Miner Quits

Solana

Securitize Launches Tokenized Apple, Nvidia and Tesla Stocks on Solana

Eligible US and EU investors can access share-backed tokens through Securitize’s broker-dealer platform; trading on NYSE and OKXICE venues remains planned.

Fiserv Launches Roughrider Coin Settlement on Solana

Tokenized-Stock Holder Count Reaches 4.3 Million, Led by BNB Chain

Bitwise Solana ETF Is First to Cross $1 Billion

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Ethereum

Franklin Templeton and Animoca Plan Broader Asset Lineup for NUVA

NUVA launched on Ethereum in May with vaults tied to YLDS and home-equity credit. The partners also plan to explore tokenized cultural assets.

BitMine Will Stop Buying ETH at 5% of Supply, Tom Lee Says

SEC Clears 3x Bitcoin and Ether ETPs for Cboe Listing

Base Ships Cobalt With Conditional Transactions And A Seize Function

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Base Ships Cobalt With Conditional Transactions And A Seize Function

Circle Launches Arc Mainnet With BlackRock, DTCC and Visa Producing Blocks

Circle Adds Native USDC, EURC and CCTP Support to Plasma

The deployment gives developers Circle-issued dollar and euro tokens plus a burn-and-mint route for moving USDC across supported chains.

Circle Targets Sept. 16 for Arc Public Mainnet Launch

Official materials name Circle and 11 founding validators, while an Arc documentation page describes approximately 20 validators at launch.

BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stalls at Two Blocks as Its Only Miner Quits

OCEAN will refund roughly 0.3 BTC to miners whose hashrate its Stratum templates sent to the breakaway chain for about 18 hours.

Circle Names BlackRock, Visa, ICE and DTCC Among 11 Founding Arc Validators

Circle's own disclaimer says Arc will be "operated by a permissioned validator set" and has not been reviewed by the New York State Department of Financial Services or any other regulator.

South Korea Super-App Toss to Run Won Stablecoin Pilot on OP Stack

Optimism says Toss is the fourth regulated financial institution in a year to pick the OP Stack, after Bitpanda, Kraken and Mitsui.

Robinhood Launches Robinhood Chain Mainnet, Adds Stock Tokens, Onchain Lending, and Agentic Crypto Trading

At a London keynote, the trading platform opened its Arbitrum-based Layer 2 to the public, rolled out new stock tokens and a Morpho-powered lending product, and confirmed launches in Canada and Singapore alongside plans for crypto trading in the UK.

Canton Network Tops Blockchain Fee Rankings With $60M in 30 Days

Canton Network, the privacy-enabled institutional blockchain built by Digital Asset, generated $60.2 million in fees over the trailing 30 days, outpacing Tron's $27.6 million and Ethereum's $11.3 million by a wide margin, according to DefiLlama data.

Sophon Shuts Down Its zkSync Chain and Rebuilds as a Consumer App Studio on Base

Sophon is decommissioning its zkSync-based Layer 2 chain and pivoting to Soph+, a consumer product studio building exclusively on Base. The shutdown caps a chain that raised $60 million through node sales but attracted fewer than 200 daily users and generated roughly $30 in daily fees.