Base Moves $565B in Stablecoins, Overtakes Ethereum Payments
The dollar volumes migrated to Base, XRPL is racing to host a second issuer beyond RLUSD, and the chain that routes the dollar is the chain that wins the next cycle.
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The dollar volumes migrated to Base, XRPL is racing to host a second issuer beyond RLUSD, and the chain that routes the dollar is the chain that wins the next cycle.
USDC took two-thirds of the $1.79T flow and Base narrowly edged Ethereum on-chain, the first time a Layer 2 has outpaced mainnet in Visa's adjusted-volume ranking.
Moonbeam's leap from Polkadot parachain to Coinbase's Base chain is the largest parachain-to-L2 migration yet, and the read on what it signals for Polkadot's institutional case is decidedly bearish.
Two block-production halts inside 48 hours, traced to one shared bug, but the chain's integrity held and no funds were lost. The remediation list is the part builders will read.
Two block-production halts in 36 hours land just ahead of Coinbase's L2's planned Beryl upgrade, putting the network's reliability narrative under fresh scrutiny.
A week of project-level pivots across L2s, perps, and prediction markets, headlined by Sophon's Base migration and Berachain's BGT fork.
A one-hour Activation Registry warm-up window is the reason the date slipped, and it determines when the first B20 tokens can actually go live on the L2.
A $60M-raised ZK L2 folding its native chain to live as a product studio on Base signals the infrastructure layer is consolidating and the application layer is where new teams are now spending.
It's the second major outage for the Coinbase-backed Ethereum layer-2 in under a year, and the root cause still hasn't been named, putting the network's reliability thesis back under the microscope.
The invalid block stopped production at height 47806542, taking deposits, withdrawals, and client software offline before partial sequencer recovery.
Base is a Coinbase-incubated layer-2 with billions in TVL; sustained downtime on a venue that size tests the assumption that rollups inherit Ethereum's uptime guarantees.
The Coinbase-incubated layer-2 hit its second notable outage this year, freezing deposits and withdrawals and exposing the operational risk of a low-redundancy sequencer setup.
Another appchain calls it: maintaining a rollup costs millions a year, and Sophon's team decided building the app is the better bet than running the chain underneath it.
Beryl compresses Base's standard withdrawal window from seven days to five and ships B20 as a precompiled — not contract-based — token standard aimed at regulated issuers.
A seven-day leaderboard led by Aerodrome (+26.6%) and Kaito (+18.2%) confirms that the growth in project count is now matched by active trading flows, not just registrations.
Aerodrome, the largest decentralized exchange on Coinbase's Base network, will roll out a mechanism called Predictive…
Travala has unveiled an agentic AI travel protocol that enables gasless USDC payments on Base, Coinbase's Ethereum…
TON's +60.7% jump sits on a recent 6x fee cut, while Sui's gas-free stablecoin transfers and Base's rollup momentum did the same work for the runners-up.
Sui's two-day mainnet stoppage is the headline; Base's Azul upgrade and Aave's listing-rule proposal are quieter, but they all show the plumbing underneath DeFi is moving this week.
Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2 network, Base, has launched Azul on mainnet — a significant protocol upgrade that advances…