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Base Active Addresses Jump 82.5% to a 30-Day High
Transactions and user-paid fees also rose as the Ethereum Layer 2 recorded 629,142 active addresses on Oct. 21.
Frax Announces Six-Currency FX Lineup on Aerodrome
The six Base pools held about $241,000 in liquidity and recorded roughly $20,000 in trading over 24 hours, according to GeckoTerminal data.
Autheo’s THEO Plunges 92% After Suspected Bridge Exploit on Base
Autheo urged users not to buy, sell or bridge THEO after a 19 million-token mint and subsequent sales on Base.
AERO Rallies 48% in Four Weeks, Outpacing Bitcoin and Ether
Aerodrome holds about $393 million on Base as its planned merger with Velodrome approaches.
Base Vault Drained of About $6 Million in Aave Deposit Tokens
Six outflows followed a borrower-whitelist change. The proceeds were redeemed for wstETH, with some later entering bridge withdrawals toward Ethereum.
SMBC Nikko and Nethermind Plan Compliance Hooks for Uniswap Pools
An MOU with Uniswap Labs, Base and Nyx Foundation targets a Japan-focused DeFi gateway for completion by mid-2027.
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.
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.
