Opinion by Kyle Torpey, a Bitcoin journalist since 2014. Crypto began as an idealistic movement to decentralize digital finance, but the long-term trend since Bitcoin originally launched in January ...

For the casual observer, the unstoppable rise of blockchain and associated Web3 technologies seems serene, but like a swan there’s always a lot going on under the surface – and I can’t remember a time ...

Base is an Ethereum Layer 2 network developed by Coinbase that uses optimistic rollups to execute transactions off-chain while settling and securing them on Ethereum. As Ethereum activity increasingly ...

I’ve covered Coinbase since it was a tiny startup but have never seen anything quite like what the crypto giant rolled out this Wednesday. At a carefully produced stage event in Los Angeles, the ...

Coinbase deepens its partnership with Centrifuge, naming it Base’s main tokenization partner and confirming a strategic ...

Coinbase-backed x402 has added batch settlement, a feature designed to reduce the cost of high-frequency AI agent payments by ...

A member of layer 2 scaling solution Base has refuted rumors that its sequencer Coinbase has been selling ether (ETH). "Coinbase has accumulated $300M+ in ETH, which is more than 2x all of Base's ETH ...

Base creator Jesse Pollak announced on May 13 that the x402 payment protocol now supports batched settlement, in an X post.