Coinbase’s Legal Expert Outlines What To Expect In FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Jury Selection
Coinbase’s Chief Legal Officer (CLO) Paul Grewal has weighed in on what to expect in the jury selection in the trial of
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Coinbase’s L2 network Base loses over 16% TVL in a week
Base Network’s TLV takes a hit, falling to $445 million, as zkSync Era gains momentum, fueled by dynamics in USDC and market competition. Base Network’s Total Value Locked (TVL) has fallen dramatically by 16.92%, bottoming out at $445 million over the previous week. Base’s position has been ceded by layer-2 protocol
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Friend.tech Drives Up Coinbase’s Base Blockchain Activity
Coinbase’s layer 2 blockchain, Base, which launched in early August, has seen its daily transactions hit an all-time high, according to data from IntoTheBlock. Base saw 1.88 million transactions on Thursday, higher than layer 2 rivals Arbitrum and Optimism combined, which saw 780,000 and 370,000, respectively. “Interestingly, it is not
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Coinbase’s (COIN) Base Hits Record High for Daily Transactions, Eclipsing Rivals Arbitrum (ARB), Optimism (OP)
“Interestingly, it is not decentralized finance (DeFi) applications nor non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces driving the surge in Base's activity. Instead, a significant portion of usage can be attributed to a new social application, FriendTech,” said Lucas Outumuro, head of research at IntoTheBlock. Source
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Coinbase’s (COIN) Brian Armstrong Confirms Crypto Exchange Will Support Lightning, Which Speeds Up Bitcoin (BTC) Payments
“Bitcoin is the world’s digital monetary system, and Lightning is Bitcoin’s payments layer,” Cathie Wood, the head of Coinbase’s second-biggest shareholder, ARK Invest, wrote on X in response to Armstrong’s post Wednesday. “Coinbase’s integration with Lightning will give its 100 million users an on-ramp to faster and cheaper bitcoin transactions.
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Coinbase’s lending bet, a new ads policy at Google and Marathon’s mining performance
Crypto giant Coinbase seems to be strategically steering its ship amid constant crypto industry turbulence in 2023. The company recently unveiled its lending platform for institutional investors, aiming to fill the void left behind by major players during 2022’s crypto winter, when firms such as Celsius Network, BlockFi and Genesis
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What Is a Blockchain Sequencer? It Sits Between Ethereum and Layer-2 Networks Like Coinbase’s Base
A criticism of the setup is that today’s rollup sequencers are typically run by “centralized” entities, and thus represent single points of failure, potential vectors for transaction censorship, or possibly a choke point if authorities ever chose to shut it all down. Coinbase, for example, runs the sequencer for its
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Coinbase’s Base faced its first significant outage
Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 project Base that went live this August suffered its first significant outage on Sept. 5. The company faced a problem when no new blocks were produced during 43 minutes on the blockchain network. Base’s
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What is Base? Unpacking Coinbase’s new layer-2 network and its impact
Base, Coinbase’s new layer-2 blockchain network, was built to enhance Ethereum’s capacity for decentralized applications, improve user interfaces, and reduce transaction costs. Let’s explore how it works, its implications, and its challenges. On Aug. 9, Coinbase, a leading player in the cryptocurrency market, launched its Base layer-2 blockchain network. Far from a
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Coinbase’s Viral Blockchain App, Friend.tech, Keeps Focus on Underlying OP Stack Technology
PRICE OF POPULARITY: Coinbase, the big U.S. crypto exchange, is getting a fast education, as one of the first big publicly traded companies to run its own blockchain. Its new Base project, a layer-2 network atop Ethereum, just launched this month, and already one of its new applications, Friend.tech, has gone
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