Gauntlet on BriefTechNews.comhttps://brief-tech-news.com/tags/gauntlet/Recent content in Gauntlet on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:11:47 +0000Coinbase puts Apple, NVIDIA and Google onchain, and five L2s admit their feeshttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-crypto/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:11:47 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-crypto/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 &ldquo;Napster era&rdquo; of machine commerce. Kinetiq is launching Elysium, an L2 that drops USDC gas for HYPE and targets block-time parity with Hyperliquid&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.