Base News

JPMorgan’s blockchain lead says merging TradFi with DeFi is accelerating, as the bank’s pilot with Chainlink and Base shows traditional institutions moving onchain.

Ethereum layer-2 growth and $830 million in spot ETH ETF inflows show investors’ true feelings even as the wider crypto market crumbles.

Once the pilot phase ends, Coinbase’s institutional clients can begin using JPMD for transactions.

PancakeSwap now offers one-click crosschain swaps with Across Protocol, aiming to reduce bridge risk and improve DeFi user experience across Arbitrum, Base and BNB Chain.

Coinbase’s layer-2 blockchain Base saw a short-lived surge in transactions per second amid a token launch on the Virtuals AI platform.

The controversial digital art drew criticism from crypto commentators, who argued it “hurts crypto” and dismissed it as neither “provocative” nor “edgy” as intended.

A Coinbase spokeswoman told Cointelegraph that “Base did not launch a token” after the blockchain’s X account was slammed for sharing a tokenized, tradable social post.

Standard Chartered downgrades its ETH price expectations, while one analyst compares trading Ethereum to “catching a falling knife.”

AI agents platform Virtuals Protocol has seen its popularity dwindle and its performance stats decline across the board.

Crypto exchange Coinbase has acquired onchain advertising platform Spindl in an effort to help Base builders “go viral.”

Some Ethereum layer 2s would be forgoing hundreds of millions of dollars obtained from fees to make Ethereum more connected at the base layer.

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The layer-1 network clocked nearly $3.8 billion in trading volume in the past 24 hours, according to DefiLlama.

The plans are not yet concrete, as Coinbase is awaiting regulatory clarity on securities tokenization.

They cited MEV as a major concern and said if they couldn’t build on Solana, they would opt for either Base or Sui.