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Coinbase's L2 built on the OP Stack. One of the fastest-growing L2s by daily transactions.
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Recent Base coverage
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Wallet Engineer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Discover Wallet Engineer salaries in 2026, ranging from $110K to $250K. See what crypto protocols are paying for this crucial role.
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You Can Now Bet on SpaceX's $2 Trillion IPO on Binance — Without Owning a Single Share
Binance just launched Pre-IPO Perpetual Contracts, letting anyone on earth speculate on SpaceX's valuation before it goes public. Wall Street just got disintermediated.
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Hackers Hit THORChain on 4 Blockchains at Once — $10.8M Gone, Trading Halted, No One Knows How
THORChain was drained across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Base simultaneously on May 15. RUNE dropped 12%, all trading and signing was halted, and the team still hasn't explained the attack vector.
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40% of the CEOs Trump Flew to China Have Crypto Ties — and Bitcoin Just Noticed
Trump boarded Air Force One to Beijing with Elon Musk, Larry Fink, Jensen Huang, and Tim Cook. Nearly 40% of the 16-CEO delegation has direct crypto exposure. Bitcoin is watching every minute of these talks.
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Congress Banned Stablecoin Yield. BlackRock Just Filed Two Funds That Give It Back.
The world's largest asset manager quietly filed SEC paperwork for two tokenized money-market funds specifically designed to let stablecoin holders earn Treasury yield — the same yield that Congress just voted to ban stablecoins from paying. The loophole is elegant. The implications are massive.
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Coinbase Fired 700 People and the CEO Says Your Company Is Next
Coinbase just cut 14% of its workforce — 700 jobs gone in a single day. CEO Brian Armstrong didn't just explain the layoffs. He warned every company in America that AI is coming for their headcount too.
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Someone Sent Grok a Morse Code Tweet — Then Walked Away With $175K in Crypto
A single obfuscated tweet tricked xAI's Grok into executing a $175K on-chain transfer — no private keys stolen, no smart contract exploit. Just a chatbot doing what it was told.
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A Bitcoin Miner Dumped Its Mining Ops for AI — Then Signed a $9.8B Deal and Hit an All-Time High Stock Price
Hut 8 sold its Bitcoin mining rigs to Eric Trump's American Bitcoin, pivoted hard to AI data centers, and just inked a 15-year, $9.8 billion lease in Texas. The stock is up 30% and at an all-time high. The playbook just changed.
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Pavel Durov Just Killed the TON Foundation and the Market Pumped 36% — Welcome to 'Decentralization'
Telegram is replacing the TON Foundation, becoming the blockchain's largest validator, and slashing fees sixfold. TON surged 36%. Decentralization theater is officially dead — and the market loves it.
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Visa Just Settled $7 Billion in Stablecoins — and Quietly Doubled Its Blockchain Network
Visa's stablecoin settlement pilot hit a $7B annualized run rate — up 50% in a single quarter — and just expanded to 9 blockchains including Base, Polygon, and Stripe's Tempo. TradFi isn't coming to crypto. It's already here.
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Is North Korea Running an AI That Automatically Hacks DeFi? April's $625M Record Says the Theory Isn't Crazy
April 2026 was the worst month in crypto hack history: 30 attacks, $625M drained, North Korea behind 76% of it. Now a developer is claiming DPRK trained an AI to autonomously exploit DeFi — and the Wasabi Protocol's $5M multi-chain drain may be its latest hit.
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Vitalik's $470M Ethereum L2 Launched Its Token Today — Hit ATH and Dumped 20% in the Same Hour
MegaETH's $MEGA token went live April 30, 2026. Backed by Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin with $470M in funding, claiming 100,000 TPS — and airdropping to 500,000 wallets on day one. Here's the full breakdown.
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South Korea's Biggest Credit Card Company Just Chose Solana to Power Payments for 28 Million Users
Shinhan Card — South Korea's largest card issuer with $145B in annual transaction volume — signed an MOU with the Solana Foundation to build a stablecoin payment stack. They already completed six proof-of-concept projects alongside Visa, Mastercard, and Fireblocks.
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Solidity Developer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Discover Solidity Developer salaries in 2026: $90k-$350k. Get the numbers and insights on what crypto protocols are offering.
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The FBI Director Just Walked Into a Bitcoin Conference to Say the War on Bitcoin Is Over
Kash Patel and Acting AG Todd Blanche take the stage at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas today — the nation's top law enforcement officials declaring 'Code is Free Speech' at the world's biggest Bitcoin event.
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Morgan Stanley Just Made Itself the Fed for Stablecoins — Tether and Circle Now Pay It Interest
Morgan Stanley's new MSNXX Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio quietly makes the $200B wealth manager the preferred reserve custodian for the entire stablecoin industry under the GENIUS Act.
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69,000 AI Agents Are Already Spending Crypto — And None of Them Asked Permission
Coinbase's x402 protocol just launched an app store where AI agents autonomously buy Bloomberg data, AWS compute, and trading APIs with USDC — no human approval required. 165 million transactions have already settled.
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North Korea Robbed Drift. Tether Wrote the Check — and Just Dethroned Circle on Solana.
Tether is bailing out Drift Protocol with $148M after North Korea's $285M heist — but the real play is quietly replacing Circle's USDC as Solana DeFi's settlement currency.
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Oracle Just Fired 30,000 People via 6 AM Email to Build AI Data Centers. Here's Where Those Engineers Should Actually Go.
Oracle cut 18% of its workforce overnight to fund a $156B AI buildout. If you're one of the 30,000, crypto infrastructure needs your exact skill set.
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North Korea Just Backdoored npm's Most Popular HTTP Library. Crypto Was the Target.
The Axios supply chain attack dropped a crypto-wallet-stealing RAT on 100M weekly installs. What happened, why AI missed it, and the security roles crypto needs now.