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Aave Adds Coinbase Stock Tokens as Collateral on Base
Seven stock tokens back USDC loans in a dedicated V4 market with a 21 million USDC borrowing cap. Access is limited to eligible non-US investors.
Block Adds Bitcoin Lightning to x402 Standard
The Lightning payment specification has been merged into x402’s repository, while a Python implementation still awaits review and real-node testing.
Hunter Biden Confirms LAPTOP Memecoin Launch On Sept. 9
The token deploys on Coinbase's Base network, with a fifth of a 1 billion supply set aside for airdrops that include wallets that lost money on TRUMP, according to The Wall Street Journal. At least 14 copycat LAPTOP tokens appeared on four other networks within an hour of the report, trading $6.9 million between them.
Robinhood Chain Never Stopped But its Blobs Did Stop Reaching Ethereum For 14 Minutes
Blocks came every 101 milliseconds throughout the outage reported on Friday. The chain's transaction data went missing on Ethereum for exactly 14 minutes, across two gaps. Arbitrum blamed Ethereum's blob market, which fits the second gap and not the first.
Robinhood Chain Overtakes Base on Daily Active Users Three Weeks After Launch
The Arbitrum Orbit network posted 324,000 daily active users and a record $588.9 million in TVL on July 21, edging out Coinbase's L2 on activity — though memecoins, not the tokenized stocks it was built for, are driving most of the volume.
Base Suffers Second Chain Halt in 24 Hours, Complicating B20 Activation Window
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.
Base Resumes Block Production After Roughly Two-Hour Mainnet Halt
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.
Base Launches Azul Upgrade, Takes Step Toward Stage 2 Decentralization
The Coinbase-incubated layer-2 network activated multiproofs on mainnet, combining TEE and ZK proof systems to move closer to full decentralization while cutting empty blocks by 99%.
Base Launches MCP Agent Gateway for Onchain Portfolio Management
Base introduces Model Context Protocol integration enabling AI agents to execute swaps, trades, and portfolio management across leading DeFi protocols.
Coinbase Taps Centrifuge as Preferred Tokenization Partner
The exchange's strategic investment cements Centrifuge as the go-to issuance layer for compliant onchain assets, starting with a tokenized S&P 500 product for non-U.S. users.
