Circle's post-IPO glow took a hit after Coinbase, BlackRock, Google, Visa, Stripe and more than 140 other companies backed a new stablecoin.

Base chain stopped producing new blocks before its scheduled Beryl upgrade after the team said a problematic block prevented new blocks from being created.

Base Beryl goes live on testnet ahead of a June 25 mainnet launch, bringing native token issuance and shorter withdrawal delays.

Crypto exchange Satori Finance shuts down three years after launch, giving users one month to close positions and withdraw funds.

The offshore crypto perps boom was partly an American story hiding behind VPNs, Coinbase CEO said, as the exchange got permission to offer a compliant route.

Mastercard is bringing stablecoins into its new machine payments service, giving crypto rails a role in the AI payments space.

NewLimit, the anti-aging startup co-founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, raised $435 million in one of biotech's largest 2026 funding rounds.

Circle's cirBTC launch puts the USDC issuer into a heated wrapped Bitcoin race where BitGo still leads and Coinbase has quickly become the main challenger.

Erik Reppel is leaving Coinbase to build a new company, though he says he will remain on x402's technical steering committee.

Base token speculation is back after new GitHub code showed Coinbase's Layer-2 network testing native tools for creating, minting, burning and pausing tokens.

Americans appear to trust Polymarket more than big regulated names, according to the 2026 Axios Harris Poll 100.

Glassnode says Bitfinex has 100% of its labeled BTC in addresses with visible public keys, leaving those coins more exposed if the quantum threat to Bitcoin signatures becomes real.

Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam has been meeting officials and business leaders in Venezuela as the sanctions-hit country tries to reopen its economy.

Hyperliquid tried to move beyond USDC with USDH, but the final deal looks more like a renegotiation than a retreat.