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Base is an Ethereum layer-2 network built on the OP Stack and incubated by Coinbase, used for low-cost transactions, DeFi, and onchain applications.
Robinhood Chain's 30-day DEX volume of $38.62 billion passed Base's $30.46 billion, according to Defillama data. Its third-quarter results will take in a September when Robinhood covered gas on some swaps, and none of the slower October.
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Fixed 21,000-gas ETH sends to EIP-7702 accounts made up 201 of 401 failed transactions in a dev.to block sample. Delegated code runs on receipt, so those sends could not succeed at that limit. The author's breakdown puts all 201 on one cluster of senders, so the half says little about the network at large.
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Weekly NFT sales edged up 0.90% to $39.85m in the seven days to Oct. 10 as buyer addresses fell 85.33%, according to CryptoSlam data. With trades down only 6.92% and the largest collections keeping their buyers, the drop points to a change in how CryptoSlam counts addresses.
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Crypto card spending rose 33% to $4.31 billion in the third quarter, Cryptopolitan reported. The outlet credits USDC with the growth, though its own September figures suggest the two big stablecoins paid for under half of that spending.
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Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP accounting says two hired market makers took about $2.87 million while draining launch liquidity. His team's 300 million tokens never moved, so a lockup check would have passed a launch whose opening pool held under 30,000 tokens.
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Security firms traced about 1,783 wstETH, worth more than $6 million, out of a Base vault on Oct. 4 whose owner is an anonymous 3-of-7 Safe. With Base and Aave's core contracts not blamed, the loss lands on a custody setup whose seven signers no one has publicly identified.
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S&P Global launched a framework on Oct. 4 to grade crypto lending vaults, a market it says grew from $1.5 billion to about $10 billion in two years. The same day, an incident on Base pulled about $6 million out of a vault without exploiting Aave, the vault-level risk S&P now scores apart from the protocol.
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The oracle deal is the part that lets Apple and NVIDIA tokens be liquidated, which is the part that lets them be borrowed against. The wrapper sits in Abu Dhabi, and US residents are excluded.
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Blast and Abstract are closing their Ethereum layer 2 chains after both operators said running costs outran revenue, Igloo by tens of millions of dollars. Cheaper blob space lowered rollups' posting bills but not the cost of running a chain.
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About $6 million in wstETH left an unidentified Base vault via a whitelist flaw a researcher had found the week before, Immunefi says. Roughly $31.7 million remains under seven unnamed Safe signers who, more than a day later, had not claimed the vault or announced a fix.
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Aave Labs says V4 passed $1 billion in deposits and $310 million in active loans in September, while V3's active loans reached $12.5 billion. For now V4 sits beside V3, and the token's monthly gain in market value is more than twice what V4 has lent.
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Virtuals Protocol opened a closed iOS beta whose personal AI holds a wallet and runs standing trade rules, such as a $1,000 leveraged Ether position. The agent acts without asking before each trade, so the beta tests whether retail users will hand standing orders to a chat app.
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DefiLlama's October 3 snapshot shows 399 of the 558 blockchains it tracks earned zero fees in 24 hours, while only seven cleared $100,000. For most of the field, user fees are too small to support a token price.
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Minia2a checked its row in Coinbase's Agentic.market against its live 402 challenges and found two of its 20 endpoint prices frozen at values it no longer charges. Every endpoint still answered with the standard x402 challenge, so the payment rail held and the drift sat in the crawled listing.
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PancakeSwap is giving liquidity providers 90% of Infinity's pool fees on Robinhood Chain and Arc as cumulative volume passes $150 billion. Its own milestones show daily volume since April 2026 averaging about a third below the first year.
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Base's Cobalt upgrade went live on September 30 with Validity Transactions, swaps the chain holds privately until set conditions are met. It continues the push toward trading and tokenized assets that Base began in July with its B20 issuer standard.
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Coinbase will convert each VELO into about 0.044 of the merged AERO token, and old AERO one for one, from November 2 to 4. Velodrome's 5.5% of new supply matches its share of trailing revenue, and old tokens are frozen on the exchange while the swap runs.
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Stripe-owned Bridge is issuing the OUSD stablecoin on four blockchains, with reserves held at BlackRock, Lead Bank and BNY. Open Standard has not said how much has been issued, so its list of more than 200 partner businesses is the only size figure on record.
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Coinbase's x402 lets AI agents pay in USDC for under $0.001 a transaction, yet CryptoBriefing reports US rules make every payment a taxable event. Coinbase has not formally addressed the reporting load, so each agent's cost-basis records become its deployer's job.
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Token Terminal data shows tokenized stocks deposited in DeFi protocols reached $262.4 million, nearly 18 times January's $14.66 million. About half of that total built up in September alone, which is too recent to show whether the deposits will stay.
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