<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Base on BriefTechNews.com</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/base/</link><description>Recent content in Base on BriefTechNews.com</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright &amp;copy;2021 &lt;br&gt; Designed &amp;amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:21:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://brief-tech-news.com/tags/base/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Clarity Act dies, Base deploys Cobalt, and Stripe picks Open USD</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-02-crypto/</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:21:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-02-crypto/</guid><description>The Senate&amp;rsquo;s failure to pass the Clarity Act cleared the way for sudden regulatory relief, including a five-year SEC exemption for tokenized equities and safe-harbor guidance on token buybacks. Stripe made Open USD its default stablecoin across card issuance rails on Tempo, while Base deployed its Cobalt hard fork featuring dormant conditional transactions and institutional asset controls. Cross-border banking moves forward as Lloyds and Visa pilot 24/7 stablecoin settlement, even as Dune data shows 99.994% of tokenized Treasury cash sits completely idle.</description></item><item><title>Kalshi cuts liquidity perks over wash trading, Robinhood rolls out US perps</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-01-crypto/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:12:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-01-crypto/</guid><description>Kalshi informed the CFTC it will shut down its Volume Incentive Program no earlier than October 13 following allegations that repeated $5,500 prints artificially inflated ether perpetual volumes by over $5 billion. Robinhood is bringing perpetual futures to US users with up to 10x leverage backed by Bitstamp alongside 24/7 weekend equity trading. Five years after making Bitcoin legal tender, El Salvador is rolling out a digital dollar app on Coinbase&amp;rsquo;s Base network to capture remittances. Stripe packaged a modular stablecoin stack spanning issuance, Bridge orchestration, and Privy wallets.</description></item><item><title>New Jersey bets the Supreme Court ends Kalshi's nationwide sports market run</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-04-crypto/</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:11:52 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-04-crypto/</guid><description>New Jersey asked the Supreme Court to overturn a Third Circuit win for Kalshi in a 332-page gambling-jurisdiction fight. Bitcoin&amp;rsquo;s 90-day correlation with gold hit a six-year high as BTC jumped 22.4% in a week, then pulled back to $77,600. Hey Anon shipped Build 3.0, a full DeFAI rebuild with modular protocol permissions, while Base opened a builder call for tokenized stocks. Wintermute framed RWAs as crypto&amp;rsquo;s next liquidity channel with peak inflows still 2-3 years out, and a separate piece argued stablecoins alone won&amp;rsquo;t fix 6.36% remittance fees.</description></item><item><title>Strategy Resumes BTC Buying; ICE-TZERO Deal; Poseidon2b Defense</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-01-crypto/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:10:36 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-01-crypto/</guid><description>Strategy bought 4,603 BTC for $369.7M, lifting total holdings to 845,050 BTC. ICE partnered with tZERO on tokenized securities infrastructure. A researcher defended Poseidon2b against a new algebraic attack. Coinbase launched tokenized stocks on Base. A Public Citizen report found investors at least $4.7B underwater across Trump crypto ventures.</description></item><item><title>Fogo halts mainnet after $3M token exploit; Solana ETFs hit $1B</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-31-crypto/</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:12:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-31-crypto/</guid><description>Fogo&amp;rsquo;s Layer 1 blockchain halted mainnet after an attacker drained 400M FOGO tokens worth ~$3M - roughly 10% of the circulating supply - ending the network&amp;rsquo;s claim of 100% uptime since its January launch. The Bitwise Solana Staking ETF crossed $1B AUM in just 10 months, holding more than half of all Solana ETF assets, while Bybit is launching 24/7 perpetual options on SpaceX and Nvidia starting September 17. Meanwhile, x402 processed 169M payments in its first year with native integrations from AWS, CloudFront, Cloudflare, and Google, and Hyperliquid Strategies disclosed a $1.9B HYPE treasury with zero debt.</description></item><item><title>Bitcoin eyes $83,300 breakout as Moonwell loses $8.7M and Revolut ships a euro stablecoin</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-crypto/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:29:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-crypto/</guid><description>Bitcoin has rallied into a stacked $81,000-$86,000 supply zone, with analysts pointing to a close above $83,300 on continued ETF inflows as the trigger that could reopen the road to January&amp;rsquo;s highs. Lending protocol Moonwell halted Base markets after an attacker drained roughly $8.7M by borrowing real cbBTC against a manipulated MAMO collateral price. Revolut, with 80M users, launched a euro-pegged stablecoin EURR on Ethereum mainnet, aiming at the same playbook PayPal used with PYUSD. LayerZero is building an institutional exchange with Citadel Securities, DTCC, and ICE, and new research shows Uniswap v3&amp;rsquo;s many fee-tier pools are functionally one pool: the top venue captures 96.3% of capacity.</description></item><item><title>Ethereum's Fast Blocks, Visa's Korean Stablecoin Push, and the Death of Microtransaction Fees</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-crypto/</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:13:32 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-crypto/</guid><description>Ethereum&amp;rsquo;s protocol developers outlined concrete timelines for reducing block times from 12 seconds to under 1 second within two hard forks, directly cutting idle capital and settlement costs for DeFi applications. Shinhan Financial Group signed with Visa to build Korea-specific stablecoin infrastructure, combining banking, card, and payment rails into a single institutional deployment. Meanwhile, EIP-8130 emerged as the preferred account abstraction path for EVM rollups, with Base targeting a 2x per-transaction cost reduction in its upcoming Cobalt upgrade.</description></item><item><title>Coinbase puts Apple, NVIDIA and Google onchain, and five L2s admit their fees</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-crypto/</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:11:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-crypto/</guid><description>Coinbase went live with tokenized NVDA, AAPL, META and GOOGL on Base under the B20 standard, posting $4.55M in day-one onchain value and $10.8M in 24-hour volume across ~50 protocols. AI agents are now a distinct crypto user cohort paying in stablecoins, with Coinbase calling it the &amp;ldquo;Napster era&amp;rdquo; of machine commerce. Kinetiq is launching Elysium, an L2 that drops USDC gas for HYPE and targets block-time parity with Hyperliquid&amp;rsquo;s HyperCore. Gauntlet detailed its risk-aware Aria agent, which has triaged 450+ alerts and gated every production change behind one or two human approvals. A separate teardown showed five new L2s raised $1.06B but burned through only $2.5M in chain fees combined.</description></item><item><title>CFTC to Regulate Crypto With or Without Congress; Bitcoin Posts Largest Weekly Dollar Gain Ever</title><link>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-24-crypto/</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:13:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-24-crypto/</guid><description>Bitcoin surged $14,264 in a single week to close at $77,387 — its largest-ever weekly dollar gain — while spot ETFs absorbed $1.92 billion in net inflows and the bitcoin-to-gold ratio hit its highest since May. The move came as the CFTC declared it will invoke existing statutory authority to regulate crypto regardless of whether the CLARITY Act passes, setting up a September 16 rulemaking showdown. Solana shipped a mainnet upgrade cutting slot time to 350ms, Ethereum researchers published a new timing attack on PoS attestation, and BounceBit is shutting down its L1 after losing $286.5M BB to a protocol-level exploit.</description></item></channel></rss>