Sui Mainnet Down Two Days, Base Upgrades, Aave Proposes…

A packed week across major crypto ecosystems saw Sui's mainnet temporarily halt user transactions for roughly two days after problems emerged during the epoch transition process — a significant reliability event for the high-throughput Layer 1. The network has since resumed, but the outage will sharpen scrutiny on Sui's consensus and epoch-change mechanics.

On the upgrade side, Base activated its Azul mainnet upgrade, continuing Coinbase's L2 development cadence. Aave, the leading decentralised lending protocol, put forward a proposal to standardise asset listing rules — a governance move aimed at bringing more consistency and risk discipline to the protocol's collateral onboarding process.

The week also carried sobering news: Ondo Finance founder Nathan Allman passed away unexpectedly, a loss that will be felt across the real-world asset tokenisation sector he helped build.