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 ...

Last year, Coinbase launched Base, its own layer-2 blockchain. It’s an ambitious project that could profoundly change not only Coinbase, but also the entire cryptocurrency industry. That’s why we’re ...

Coinbase says AI agents use stablecoin wallets as smart wallets launched on Base Sepolia with passkeys and no seed phrases.

Coinbase is building its own software stack to run Base without depending on Optimism’s releases.

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 ...

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 ...