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Amid a big push for developers to experiment with Base, native memecoin Based Brett has rocketed
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Roaring Kitty held a livestream on Friday that didn’t do the overall market, or GameStop shares, any good
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Coinbase’s Base welcomes the second iteration of its Onchain Summer, and NodeMonkes is now the most popular Bitcoin NFT
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The crypto exchange’s ability to cross-sell its products is its “superpower,” Bitwise’s Alyssa Choo says
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Layer-3s are helpful for attestations but not as much for DeFi, Stack said in a blog post
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Coinbase is making a big push to bring institutions over to crypto, with tokenized real-world assets taking center stage
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Project Diamond is built on Coinbase’s Base and is managed by Coinbase Asset Management
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On-chain debt capital markets platform deploys on Coinbase-incubated layer-2 after structured investment products push
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Coinbase said bringing identity verification on-chain is a logical next step for Web3 to increase security and transparency
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Lido DAO approved a bridging standard to Base as canonical shortly after rebuffing LayerZero’s bridging standard
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Only KYC’d customers who have passed anti-money laundering checks will be qualified to purchase the token
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The open-source monitoring system is capable of identifying threats in the OP Stack and other EVM blockchain events
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A drop in activity calls into question the longevity of the platform and its ability to generate revenue
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Base, Coinbase’s layer-2 that’s been on the horizon since February, is seeing early success so far
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More than 100 decentralized apps and service providers will operate on the network at launch
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Taking away complexity from the user experience is the “north star” that the Coinbase team is following
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