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.

A new nonprofit backed by BitMine, SharpLink and Joseph Lubin spins the Ethereum Foundation's institutional outreach work into an independent organization, the second such steward group the three backers have funded in ten days, as the Foundation itself shrinks.

Base stalled block production for a second time in less than 24 hours on Friday morning, describing the incident as showing 'similar symptoms' to Thursday's roughly two-hour outage, with the event arriving less than three hours before the B20 Activation Registry was anticipated to go live.

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 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.

Coinbase-incubated Layer 2 Base stalled block production for about two hours Thursday after an invalid block triggered a consensus fault, before the network recovered. The outage renewed scrutiny of single-sequencer risk on major rollups.

The intellectual-property blockchain that raised $140 million led by a16z crypto is migrating its $IP token to $DATA one-to-one and integrating data marketplace Kled, registering 1.1 billion user records on the network.

Sharplink, Bitmine and Joe Lubin are backing Ethlabs as the Ethereum Foundation cuts its budget 40%, but no one will say how much money is behind the new lab

The Ethereum Foundation has eliminated 54 positions, about 20% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring tied to its updated spending mandate. Vitalik Buterin announced a 40% annual budget cut targeting a reduction in treasury spend from 15% to 5% by 2030. Arkham Intelligence places EF's ETH holdings at approximately $209 million, a nearly six-year low.

The nonprofit is eliminating 54 roles as Vitalik Buterin warns that the leaner organization will involve “grand sacrifices,” including changes to client development, Devcon and institutional work.