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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Doma Protocol, the world’s leading DNS-compliant blockchain to tokenize the internet, today announced the launch of the Doma Names Marketplace on the ...

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