Base News

Top blockchains in 2025, based on active users, range from DeFi stars to gaming chains. Growth notwithstanding, these blockchains are facing stiff competition.

At BaseCamp 2025, Coinbase’s layer 2 network said it is weighing a token launch to boost decentralization, while unveiling a Solana bridge to expand crosschain interoperability.

Base’s 70% NFT trading volume surge to $47 million in the last 30 days puts it above competitors like Immutable and Solana.

A viral run on Zora pushed Base ahead of Pump.fun and LetsBonk, but Solana still leads in users, transactions and overall activity.

Base blamed a 33-minute outage on Tuesday on an unprepared sequencer. The blockchain team said it would update the infrastructure

The developer tool offers customizable wallets, USDC rewards and deeper integration with Coinbase’s Base app, aligning with recent pro-crypto legislation.

Nexus Mutual has paid about $250,000 in claims to users hit by July’s $3.5 million Arcadia Finance hack on Base.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko ignited criticism from the crypto community by likening memecoins to loot boxes in mobile games.

Arcadia Finance’s Rebalancer contract was exploited for $3.5 million in USDC and USDS on the Base blockchain, with stolen assets swapped to WETH.

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.