Coinbase CEO admits content coins were a mistake
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong admitted that the firm "messed up" with content coins and its crypto social media app Zora before its AI pivot.
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Coinbase ‘I was fired’ memes revive on X amid Base outage
As the Base chain froze on Thursday, a fake Coinbase firing post pulled 180,000 views before a Community Note exposed it as a recycled meme.
Inside DeFi 005: 🌪️ Base shuns Optimism, Discord’s KYC disaster
Base leaves Optimism, DeFi projects shut down, plus Discord spyware, and AI meets DeFi
Jesse Pollak says Base wont manipulate token prices ‘behind the scenes’
Coinbase Head of Protocol Jesse Pollak claimed Base will never “support the chart behind the scenes” in response to calls for more support.
Base feud with Solana goes nuclear amid talk of token launch
The competition between Base and Solana passed a tipping point this week after Base announced its intention to launch a proprietary token.
90% of Jesse Pollak’s Base tokens are down bad
Of the last 50 tokens launched by Jesse Pollack on Base, 40% have seen their market cap fall by at least 90%, and only three have increased.
Coinbase Base network halts for 44 minutes due to ‘unsafe head delay’
“Unsafe head delay” has been blamed for the Coinbase Base downtime, according to its status page. Four components had a major outage today.
Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base are fighting over $52 billion DeFi pie
Ethereum layer 2s are battling for dominance of a market they believe could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Zora abandons NFTs without warning, launches airdrop with zero rights
Coinbase-supported Instagram copycat Zora announced an airdrop with zero governance rights after its controversial pivot from NFTs.
What’s the deal with Zora, Base, and content coins?
Coinbase is adamant that Base didn’t launch a token or memecoin, while according to its creator, BASEISFOREVERYONE is a "content coin."