⚡️ JUST IN: Coinbase reported a record 8.6% market share and $202 billion in quarterly trading volume while shifting focus toward Base, USDC, and onchain payments. https://t.co/TNlch4oSW1 ...

Imagine this. You finally decide to send some crypto to a friend. Just $30 worth of Ethereum.Nothing too crazy. You open MetaMask, copy paste the address, hit send, and the wallet calls you a $42 gas fee to move $30. Yes, really.You close the app immediately, you decide crypto is broken, and millions of beginners have hit that exact wall in the past 4 years. These days, it's not as bad. But when the network is congested, fees can stack up hard.But here's the part that nobody told you about. Ethereum isn't b ...

$30b+ in TVL across ethereum L2s. zero major chains at Stage 2 decentralization. arbitrum, optimism, base all sitting at Stage 1 with multisig security councils that can freeze funds and inject transactions. KelpDAO exploit proved it in april when arbitrum's 9-of-12 council froze $292m using emergency powers. base runs a single coinbase-controlled sequencer generating $500m+/year in fees with no Stage 2 timeline. why would coinbase decentralize a half-billion dollar annual revenue stream. optimism still has ...

The agentic economy has found its home on Base.Base (@base):x402 payments surpassed over 100M in Q1.Over 90% of onchain agentic stablecoin transaction volumes were on Base. https://t.co/F3UPTmtc8F ...