ETH L2 News: Robinhood Chain Goes Live as Top Critics Flip Bullish
The weekly round-up also tracks a $1M approval-phishing loss, Michael Saylor's shifting narrative, and the crypto entanglements of Farage and Trump.
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The weekly round-up also tracks a $1M approval-phishing loss, Michael Saylor's shifting narrative, and the crypto entanglements of Farage and Trump.
Native issuance cuts bridging friction for a $1B-supply stablecoin, landing on a network that has already settled $2.6T in stablecoin volume and a growing institutional footprint.
A memecoin built around an abandoned mascot became the first breakout on the brokerage's RWA-focused chain, exposing the tension between tokenized-stocks ambition and the speculative flow that…
The Robinhood Chain launch on Arbitrum's stack routes 8% of fees to a tokenholder-controlled treasury and 2% to Offchain Labs development, formalising the revenue share that ties every Orbit L2 to…
The new entity, Ethereum Institutional, runs independently of the Ethereum Foundation and is built to be the front door for pensions, endowments and asset managers wiring ETH exposure.
The speed of the recovery is the story: every depositor restored in under two weeks, a full post-mortem incoming, and a 136% TAIKO rally signaling that the market treats containment as legitimate…
A retail-broker-built L2 is the first credible signal that Wall Street's bridge to public chains has shifted from custody pilots to owning infrastructure itself.
An Arbitrum-based L2 from a US retail giant flips the switch with Uniswap live day one, while 24/7 stock tokens, Robinhood Earn, and crypto agentic accounts queue up behind it.
A new independent non-profit lands with three anchor funders already attached, signalling that ETH's institutional push now has a dedicated vehicle rather than ad hoc alliances.
The DEX wind-down closes a six-year run for one of Ethereum's earliest zkRollup experiments, with the team returning remaining user funds via a contract upgrade.
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.
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.
The Layer-2's bridge proof mechanism was compromised, putting more than $1M already drained and every remaining bridged position at risk until Taiko confirms a fix.
Taiko, an Ethereum layer-2 rollup, lost roughly $1.7M to an exploit, with the attacker already moving $189K in TKO to MEXC while still sitting on $1.52M in ETH.
Four cross-sector beats in one weekly wrap — a regulated-prediction-market breakout, a zkSync builder retrenching, Andre Cronje exiting Sonic Labs, and a Standard Chartered UNI $100 call.
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.
Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2 network, Base, has launched Azul on mainnet — a significant protocol upgrade that advances…