Base
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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The Weekly Grind (Sep 29–Oct 5): $6M Drained, Blast Fizzles, SEC Crypto Shift
Crypto chaos reigns: $6M drained from Base vault, SEC flips custody rules, Blast crashes.
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Someone Just Drained $6 Million From a Vault on Base. Nobody Will Say Whose Vault It Was
An attacker pulled about 1,783 wstETH, worth over $6 million, out of a vault on Base on October 4. The vault was controlled by a 3-of-7 Safe multisig with seven unidentified signers. No protocol has claimed it, the root cause is unconfirmed, and around $31.7 million was reportedly still at risk when the incident was disclosed.
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MEV Researcher Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Discover MEV Researcher salaries in 2026: $90k-$300k. Explore what crypto protocols offer for this in-demand role.
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Senate Investigators Checked 846 Sanctioned Iran Wallets. 84% of Them Ran on Tether
A 28-page report from Senate Democrats led by Richard Blumenthal says USDT has become Iran's primary crypto payment rail, used by 84% of 846 sanctioned Iran-linked wallets and 87% of 757 wallets tied to terror financing. It says Tether took nine months to freeze 34 wallets Israel had designated, and wants Treasury and the DOJ to investigate. Tether says it froze about $550 million in Iran-linked USDT this year alone.
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The SEC Is About to Be Two People. 'Crypto Mom' Hester Peirce Just Quit, and Nobody Has Been Nominated to Replace Her
Hester Peirce posted her resignation letter on X with the caption 'T minus 7.' Her last day is October 2. After that the five-seat SEC will have two commissioners, Paul Atkins and Mark Uyeda, and under the agency's own quorum rule two votes are enough to pass anything. The commissioner who ran the Crypto Task Force is leaving to teach law, the CLARITY Act is dead, and the SEC is now the main place US crypto rules get made. Here's what that means for the industry and the people who work in it.
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Tokenomics Engineer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Discover Tokenomics Engineer salaries in 2026: $90k-$300k. See what top crypto protocols are offering for this crucial role.
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BitMEX Invented the 100x Perpetual Swap, Beat a Criminal Case With a Presidential Pardon, Then Lost to the Product It Created. Leave Money There Now and It Costs You $50 a Month
BitMEX stopped trading on September 23 at 04:00 UTC, 11 years after launch. It invented the perpetual swap in 2016 and once handled about 57% of all crypto derivatives trading. Perps did $61.7 trillion in volume in 2025, and almost none of it went through BitMEX. The company says it never lost user funds to a hack, but it still owes something: the Celsius estate filed a $490 million lawsuit over 2020 liquidations eleven days before the shutdown. Here's what happened, what users need to do before the fees start, and what it means if you work in derivatives.
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The SEC Just Legalized Trading Apple Stock on Uniswap. The $3 Billion of Tokenized Stocks That Already Exist Don't Qualify.
Two days after the Senate killed the CLARITY Act, the SEC dropped a five-year 'innovation exemption' letting permissioned AMM pools trade real US stocks onchain with no exchange registration. The catch: tokens have to carry actual shareholder rights. Ondo, xStocks and Robinhood's stock tokens don't. An SEC spokesperson's verdict on the synthetics: 'They can remain out in the wilds.'
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Crypto Community Manager Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Discover 2026 salary ranges for Crypto Community Managers, from $90K to $300K. See who's hiring and what skills pay the most.
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The Democrats Who Helped Write the CLARITY Act Just Voted to Kill It. 49-50. Crypto's Senate Bill Is Dead for 2026.
Seven Democrats spent a year negotiating the crypto market-structure bill. On Tuesday every one of them voted no, three Republicans joined them, and the cloture motion didn't even get a simple majority. Lummis: 'It's over.' Coinbase fell 8.65%, Polymarket odds of passage hit 7%, and the industry's hundreds of millions in lobbying bought a bill that never reached the floor.
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Balancer's CEO Just Asked Token Holders to Vote the Protocol Dead. Its $9M Treasury Is Worth More Than Its Own Token.
One of the original DeFi AMMs is proposing to pause every pool, fire itself, and hand the treasury to anyone willing to burn their BAL. Revenue is $30K a month against $150K in costs, ten months after a rounding error drained $128 million. The vote runs September 25 to 29.
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FTX Creditors Got Up to 120% of Their Money Back. SBF Just Told the Supreme Court That's Why He's Innocent.
Sam Bankman-Fried's cert petition argues FTX was 'temporarily illiquid,' not fraudulent — and that the jury never got to hear customers would be made whole. He's also calling the $11 billion forfeiture an unconstitutional excessive fine. The Court grants about 1% of petitions.
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DevRel Engineer (Web3) Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Discover 2026 salary ranges for DevRel Engineers in Web3. Earn between $90k and $300k. Find out who's hiring and what skills pay top dollar.
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988,905 Wallets Lost $3.8 Billion on $TRUMP. Hunter Biden's Memecoin Is Airdropping Them a Consolation Prize.
Hunter Biden turned the most infamous laptop in American politics into a token on Coinbase's chain — and reserved 20% of the supply for the people the President's coin wrecked. Crypto Twitter turned on it before it even traded. Kraken deleted its post.
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A Bug Printed Bitcoin Out of Thin Air — and Liquid's Federation Wired Out $320M in Real BTC
Someone submitted 4,000 L-BTC that was never backed by anything. Twenty-three minutes later the Liquid Federation released 3,996 real Bitcoin. Then the recipient carved 'we are whitehats' into the blockchain and asked for a patch.
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Web3 Designer Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Explore Web3 Designer salaries in 2026, ranging from $90,000 to $300,000. Learn who's hiring and what skills boost your pay.
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Nobody Broke the Contract — They Just Asked It Nicely With the Right Permissions
August's exploit wave barely involved code bugs. Hijacked bridge permissions, unauthorized minting, a compromised exchange. The attack surface moved to config, and almost nobody is auditing config.
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Crypto Quantitative Trader Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Discover Crypto Quantitative Trader salaries in 2026: $90K-$300K. See who's hiring and what skills maximize your pay.
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Blockchain Security Researcher Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Explore Blockchain Security Researcher salaries in 2026, ranging from $90,000 to $300,000. Discover what crypto protocols are paying.
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Crypto Product Manager Salary in 2026: What Crypto Protocols Are Actually Paying
Explore Crypto Product Manager salaries in 2026, with ranges from $90k to $300k. Discover who's hiring and what skills boost your pay.