Base News

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.

AI agents are taking crypto by storm, but analysts and executives aren’t convinced the rising tide of generative chatbots and their affiliated tokens have long-term staying power.

The stablecoin is also more widely distributed across blockchain networks.

As Netflix released Squid Game Season 2 after Christmas, tokens of the same name flooded the crypto markets.

The DeFi protocol also launched an in-house perpetuals trading app.

A new platform dubbed goose.run lets users lend and borrow against memecoins, its team told Cointelegraph.