Base News

Meme coins on the Base Blockchain were some of the best performers on Wednesday as cryptocurrencies rebounded. Brett, the biggest token in the ecosystem, surged by over 18%, pushing its market cap to nearly $1.5 billion.  Basenji (BENJI) was a…

Morpho, a decentralized finance (DeFi) lending and borrowing protocol on Ethereum, has expanded to its first layer-2 with launch on Base, an L2 scaling network for Ethereum that Coinbase introduced in 2023. While Morpho initially launched on the Ethereum blockchain,…

Crypto exchange Coinbase has unveiled a new metric dubbed the h-index to address distortions in tracking onchain adoption caused by airdrop-related activities. Coinbase, a publicly traded U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, known for its development of Base, a layer-2 solution for Ethereum,…

Normie, a meme token on the BASE blockchain, saw its value crash. Meanwhile, a couple of coins riding on Trump’s fame helped the meme sector in terms of gains over the past 24 hours.

Rug.fun recently launched a 24-hour game that immerses investors in the volatile world of meme coins.

Coinbase’s Base chain appears to be a target for scammers, with two of the top 10 largest single thefts occurring on the network, accounting for over 20% of the month’s total theft. Although crypto hacks saw a decrease in April…

Grand Base, an RWA tokenization platform on the layer 2 Base network, suffered a major security breach. 

Grand Base’s token sees a nearly 100% drop in value following reports that the protocol’s deployer minted millions of new tokens, raising concerns of a potential rug pull. Decentralized finance protocol on the Base network, Grand Base, is suspected of…

An on-chain detective says a blockchain fraud group moved roughly $1 million in laundered funds to Base to fuel a new scam. Here's the latest.

Coinbase's layer 2 network, Base, has been making headlines for its high transaction-per-second throughput compared to Solana.

Due to the ongoing meme coin frenzy, DEXs on the Solana network have taken up the majority of trading volume over the past 24 hours.

Coinbase wants to optimize its management process by storing more of its USDC holdings on Base. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is planning to store more corporate and customer USD Coin (USDC) balances on Base, a layer-2 solution based on the OP…

Ethereum layer-2 network Base has doubled its total value locked to $2.13 billion in under a month thanks to the ongoing meme coin frenzy.

ZackXBT recently uncovered a scam involving French developer Jolan Lacroix, who misappropriated $900,000 from the TICKER token presale on Base. TICKER had raised 877 Ethereum (ETH), equivalent to $3.19 million, with promises of specific token distributions including liquidity provision, presale,…

A Telegram trading bot for Solana-based memecoin has reached the $250 million mark in daily trading volumes, outpacing Coinbase’s entire Base chain. The meme coin frenzy appears to be signaling signs of reaching its top as even trading bots now…

Base's daily transaction volume skyrocketed to 2 million on March 16, following the Dencun launch.