Moonbeam froze all GLMR token transactions at 23:59 UTC on July 31, 2026, as part of its migration to relaunch on the Base network. Users who missed the migration window are being instructed to contact support via email.
Robinhood's Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain, launched July 1, 2026, has generated over $2 million in cumulative revenue and surpassed Coinbase's Base in daily active users, though on-chain data shows more than 80% of its $9 billion trading volume comes from memecoin speculation rather than its intended focus on tokenized stocks.
LayerZero Labs and Keeta announced a partnership to make tokenized commercial bank money natively transferable across Ethereum, Solana, Base, and the Keeta Network. Keeta Stablecoins will be backed by commercial bank deposits held through Bivo, a U.S.-licensed financial technology platform, and are scheduled to become available later in July 2026 in nine currencies.
Mubadala Capital, the asset management arm of Abu Dhabi's $385 billion sovereign wealth fund, has launched a tokenized version of one of its private markets investment strategies on multiple blockchains including Solana, Sui, and Base, with Coinbase taking exposure in the fund through a partnership with Abu Dhabi FinTech firm Kaio.
Coinbase has introduced three offerings that enable businesses to accept payments from AI agents, expand agent-assisted crypto trading and help developers integrate x402 payments. The company also said agent traffic exceeded human traffic on Base documentation pages for the first time.
Ring Protocol has integrated Orbs-powered infrastructure to support decentralized limit and TWAP orders across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain, bringing advanced trading features typically found on centralized exchanges to decentralized platforms.
Chainlink has extended its Proof of Reserve oracle service to provide onchain reserve data across Ethereum, Base, Monad, and Ink networks, as the crypto industry continues emphasizing asset verification following the 2022 FTX collapse.
Jordan Fish (Cobie), a Coinbase product executive, publicly acknowledged that the company and its Base blockchain platform have become too distant from crypto-native users and eroded community trust through preventable errors. The admission comes amid growing criticism and leadership changes at the company.
Coinbase executive Jesse Pollak handed Base app leadership to trader 'Cobie' after publicly acknowledging the network's push into on-chain social and creator coins 'was wrong,' refocusing Base on becoming 'the blockchain for global finance.'
Attackers exploited a vulnerable third-party SquidRouterModule contract to drain approximately $3.2 million from 86 Gnosis Safe wallets on Base and Ethereum networks in under two hours. The exploit targeted a third-party module rather than the core Safe protocol.
DeFi perpetual futures protocol Wasabi Protocol was drained of over $5 million across Ethereum, Base, Berachain, and Blast after attackers compromised an admin key to upgrade contracts and extract funds. Security firms PeckShield, Blockaid, and CertiK confirmed the exploit.
Coinbase's x402 agentic AI payments protocol moved to neutral governance under the Linux Foundation on April 2, 2026, with backing from major tech companies including Google, Stripe, AWS, and Cloudflare. The protocol enables embedded payments in web interactions and AI agent commerce.
