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Layer 2 scaling solutions: Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, zkSync, Scroll and StarkNet. Track L2 TVL, transaction volumes, bridging activity and ecosystem growth.
277 posts · 2026-05-22 · Page 1
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Research Brief
Research Brief · 22 May 2026
Through research on the following hot topics: Coinbase launching regulated futures and using AI to cut account restriction time by 90%, validator votes to delist tokens like BLAST and FTT, and Grayscale-linked wallets accumulating HYPE, the Layer 2 space is buzzing with exchange innovation and token volatility. My take: Coinbase's AI compliance push signals a shift toward efficiency over human oversight, which could streamline user experience but raises centralization concerns. Expect more exchanges to adopt AI for regulatory tasks, while token delistings may increase as validators enforce stricter standards. Public sentiment is mixed—optimistic about Coinbase's moves but wary of delisting risks and AI's role in decision-making.
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Okay based on the first reactions it seemed like the naming convention issue brought by Zach didn't get much reflection in you. In this case, I'd like to share a more practical guidance I used recently when had to test a k8s operator setup locally. The topic is: Go: Testing Kubernetes Applic
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✴️ 🇺🇸 #COIN #крипто #биржи #торги Coinbase запустит фьючерсы на регулируемой бирже США
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#4
The New Definition of Software Engineering in the Age of AI AI is not replacing software engineers wholesale — it's automating routine, execution-level coding tasks. The shift demands developers move from effort-based to impact-based engineering: understanding system architecture, applying clean
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#6
🚨 🚨 🚨 667 $BTC (51,556,081 USD) transferred from Coinbase Institutional to unknown wallet Details
#7
Nvidia presentó resultados anoche, y el gigante de los chips de IA, lo ha vuelto a hacer, superando las previsiones de crecimiento de ingresos del 85% en el trimestre de abril, el primero de su año fiscal 2027. Aún mejor, Nvidia pronostica un crecimiento del 95% para el segundo trimestre. Su año fis
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🚀 Coinbase is set to launch futures on a regulated exchange in the United States. This move marks a significant step in expanding its offerings in the crypto market, providing traders with more options for investment and speculation. The announcement is expected to attract more users and enhance tra
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The DNC autopsy report on the 2024 presidential election has dropped and DNC Chair Ken Martin who buried it is now publicly disowning the document he commissioned! DNC Chair Ken Martin received the report, shelved it, reversed course under mounting party pressure, and released it Thursday simult
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Validators will vote on whether to delist BLAST, CHILLGUY, FTT, and TST around 25 May 2026 at 09:00 UTC, based on stalequant's methodology and community request. If validators vote to delist an asset, the perps will settle to the 1 hour time weighted spot oracle price before the scheduled delist
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VerifiedX Network는 Frost-MPC 임계값 서명을 지원하는 vBTC v2를 출시했으며, 현재 Base 거래소에서 vBTC.b라는 티커로 비합성 정규 자산으로 거래되고 있습니다. 또한 Fireblocks에도 자체 보관 지원과 함께 상장되었습니다. VerifiedX는 vBTC.b가 1:1 BTC 담보, 자동 발행 및 소각, 그리고 VFX Lockbox 및 Proof Publisher 시스템을 통해 제3자 인증 없이 Base 거래소에서 네이티브 비트코인으로 직접 상환을 지원하는 완전 담보형 비합성 비트코인 자산이라고
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Trump: Based on the successful Election of the now President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, who I was proud to Endorse, and our relationship with him, I am pleased to announce that the United States will be sending an additional 5,000 Troops to Poland.
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NEW 🚨 : The Southern Poverty Law Center had standing meetings inside Biden's DOJ, early access to FBI hate-crimes data, and a hand in training federal prosecutors. On June 9, its CEO has to answer for it under subpoena. FULL STORY 👇 https://open.substack.com/pub/thedailydots/p/jordan-subpoenas-s
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🙅♂ 👀 Coinbase делистит фьючерсы на #TRIA , #NEO и #IMX .
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Aped a bag of $VIRL here at 4m I’ve been sidelined on this until now, but it’s clear this is one of the most serious tech launches recently. So firstly - the chart looks fucking insane. Huge retail volume has poured in, it’s got wild volume and top holders on many of the biggest coins have been
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⚠️ In just one week, international investors pulled $22 billion from Chinese stock funds, reaching the highest amount since January, based on EPFR data . For further information, check out mt in max .
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Amazon представили AgentCore Payments — инструмент, который позволит ИИ-агентам самостоятельно платить за API, веб-контент, MCP-серверы и услуги других агентов . Платежи на старте будут идти в USDC , а разработчики смогут подключать кошельки Coinbase или Stripe, фактически давая ботам собственный бю
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Suspected Grayscale-Linked Address Accumulates Over $10 Million in HYPE According to Arkham, an address (0x61…4318) suspected to be linked toGrayscale has accumulated tens of millions of dollars worth of HYPE over the past week via exchanges or OTC desks including Wintermute, FalconX, Coinbase,
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⚠️ 🇮🇷 Iran has issued a warning that all U.S. military bases in the southern Persian Gulf will be shut down. mt в max
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Coinbase Uses AI to Reduce Account Restriction Resolution Time by 90% Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the company is using AI to overhaul its compliance processes and has rebuilt nearly all related workflows. As part of the upgrade, the time required to remove account restrictions has been reduced
#21
BTC remains structurally resilient, but weakening spot demand, slowing ETF inflows, and increasingly crowded long positioning suggest upside momentum is cooling down. Executive Summary - BTC reclaimed True Market Mean at $78.3k but couldn't hold. History suggests weeks to months of consolid
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Took awhile. But $Openhuman touched a million on base. Now $Openhuman is lagging a bit on Solana. Overall more bullish on base. Ca: Base: 0x38298138dd4389013962d8492feaa5879408dba3 Solana: BBigCqRMg57zqgBQMvccvFok2Kt24uwnid47w4rWpump
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⚠️ BabyDogers ⚠️ As we are getting closer to our new Quest on Monday, we’re dropping some tips as promised. Today’s topic: your social media accounts. Before you start posting, please think carefully about which account you want to use. Using your personal account is not always a good idea. Why? Bec
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Clearing protocol Cycles raised $6.4M in a Private funding round led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Compound, Primitive.
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VerifiedX Network releases vBTC v2 with Frost-MPC threshold signing and is now live on Base as a non-synthetic canonical asset under the ticker vBTC.b and has been listed on Fireblocks with self-custody support. VerifiedX said vBTC.b is a fully collateralized, non-synthetic Bitcoin asset that suppor
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Форма логина и JWT-токен — ещё не безопасность приложения. На практике ошибки в аутентификации и авторизации становятся причиной утечек данных, проблем с доступом и уязвимостей, которые сложно обнаружить до выхода системы в production. 26 мая в 20:00 МСК приглашаем вас на открытый урок курса «C# ASP
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whyShouldntIExposeTheDatabase https://redd.it/1tjfi8v @programmer_humor
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Iran rebuilding military industrial base faster than expected, CNN reports https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2026/05/21/iran-rebuilding-military-industrial-base-faster-than-expected-cnn-reports?utm_medium=socmed&utm_campaign=TG
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LATEST: ⚡ Coinbase and Flipcash launched USDF, a Solana stablecoin backed 1:1 by USDC, making Flipcash the first live partner on Coinbase’s Custom Stablecoin platform.
#30
Tapped 3x and the chart looks good. Credit lending protocol for agents, the idea seems unique. https://dexscreener.com/base/0x7a97e4a45f5ae858ba5e96fb1e279dce4aa6751caf844a2bf6c7f7ea520e34f4 Will hold mid to longterm.
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Bought some $openhuman dip DYOR Not sure CT has caught onto the fact the no.1 GitHub repo and product of the past week $openhuman is on base at 2m and the dev is talking with bnkr Literally has 1600+ forks and 18,000 + stars Compare with $aeon another…
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Base is the AI layer https://x.com/monaco_pnl/status/2057240580413960303?s=20
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跨链结算协议Everclear宣布关闭 BlockBeats 消息，5 月 22 日，跨链结算协议 EverclearOrg 宣布关闭基金会、Labs 及产品开发，核心原因是其 solver-based 跨链资金再平衡模式虽达到每月 5 亿美元交易量，但用户价格敏感导致难以转化为实质收入。 公告称，过去半年转向 B2B2C 伙伴合作未能及时落地，收购选项也未成功，资金耗尽后选择有序关闭；协议已下线，无用户资金被困，UI 和链当前不可用。 DAO 继续运作并探索协议开源，若有剩余资金将考虑 CLEAR 代币回购。 原文链接 https://m.theblockbeats.info/flash/3
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но не только в этом отличие: валидатором может стать если не каждый, то любой. В том смысле, что не у всякого может быть, например, 32 ETH, но для этого и создаются обновления, а ещё - объединения в самые разные "пулы" и через самые разные сервисы. и цифры > 1 000 000 поэтому уже не каж
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🟢 plsbro.fun [26.64K / 32%] $PLSBRO 🟦 BASE @ Uniswap v4 💰 USD: $0.0000002 👁 FDV: $26.6K ⇨ 92.8K [1h] 💧 Liq: $9K [x2] 𓍼 🫧 📊 24h Vol: +$298.7K Age: 1h 🚀 1H: -96.7% ⋅ $9.5K · 🅑 24 Ⓢ 36 👥 TH: 5.6 ⋅ 3.2 ⋅ 1.7 ⋅ 1.5 ⋅ 1.4 [17%] 🤝 Total: 97 ⋅ avg 35w old 🌱 Fresh 1D: 5% ⋅ 7D: 1
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pre mkt thoughts 21 May 2026 Yields retraced last night on mkt optimism towards a sight of the end of the Iran war. 30Y yields dropped ~8bps from 5.18% to 5.1%. In asia trading, they have rebounded back slightly higher. $NVDA earnings delivered a solid beat however the market response to it was
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https://x.com/base/status/2056780161916273083 Base just posted them a day ago and chart looks like this, was one of the most hyped perp dexes under HYPE at one point
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빌리언즈는 카이토 인앱 지갑으로 Base USDC로 5% 더해서 오늘 환불 들어왔네요 (따로 클레임 누를것없이 인앱지갑으로 들어왔습니다) 빌리언즈 가격은 0.085 이자 주려고 좀 팔았나(?) 떨어짐 USD1 바꿔먹어야겠다
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🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 580 BTC ($44,568,660) transfered from Kraken to Coinbase 2 minutes ago Sender's balance: 250.02663712 BTC Receiver's balance: 580.00000000 BTC TX - link @WhaleBotAlerts
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https://x.com/base/status/2056780161916273083 Base just posted them a day ago and chart looks like this, was one of the most hyped perp dexes under HYPE at one point
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К дискуссии об искусственной криминализации властями США клиринга в валюте доллар В открытом доступе наткнулись на полный текст англоязычной статьи The Sovereignty of Personal Jurisdiction о феномене распространения юрисдикции 🇺🇸 США через валюту 💲 Авторы даже вводят такую правовую категорию как «юр
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Estados Unidos considera que es "momento de volver a dejar su huella en Groenlandia" El emisario estadounidense en Groenlandia concluyó el miércoles una primera visita controvertida a este territorio ártico codiciado por Donald Trump. En una entrevista con AFP, estimó que era "momento
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There's nothing else on Base doing what $NOOK is doing. https://x.com/monaco_pnl/status/2057267779321950523?s=20
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Keyrock: Who Pays the Agent? The Race for Frictionless Machine Payments In one year, machine payments have evolved from concept to live ecosystem. Now four competing payment architectures have launched, backed by Coinbase, Stripe, Google, Visa, & American…
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요즘 Base Dex가 전반적으로 Bankr / vvv 등을 중심으로 훈풍이 불고있는데, 보기좋게 정리한 플젝 리스트인거 같아서 공유 https://x.com/DegenOnBase_/status/2057280217090027686?s=20
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🚨 Elevatefi.io ($EFI) - Loss ~$16K (2026-05-19) Type: Oracle Manipulation (UniswapV2 spot-price) Staking vault prices EFI via raw pricePair.getReserves(). Attacker used a flash-loan funded buy of EFI from the EFI/DAI pair to inflate spot EFI price during staking, paid less EFI for a large
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Keyrock: Who Pays the Agent? The Race for Frictionless Machine Payments In one year, machine payments have evolved from concept to live ecosystem. Now four competing payment architectures have launched, backed by Coinbase, Stripe, Google, Visa, & American Express > Agents have settled $7
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보법이 다른 HYPE 근황 - 자기 혼자 거의 불장 즐기는 중인 HYPE - ATH 사실상 달성 - HYPE 현물 ETF 순유입 영향도 있을 듯 Based 에드작 하신 분들은 혹시나 HYPE가 지갑에 있을 수 있으니 체크해보시길... (지갑뒤지면서 HYPE 다 찾아내는 중)
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ETH Maple just launched! The official Canada mascot for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Official Whitepaper & Application Manual • Release 1.0 (ETH Contract Integration Blueprint) Document Status: Signed Off / Sandbox Sandbox Platform Ready Release Environment: Web3 Ethereum Layer-2 (Base & Arbi
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SPACEX: IPO FILING TARGETS RECORD VALUATION IPO Highlights - SpaceX reportedly targets ~$1.75 trillion valuation. - IPO could become world’s largest listing. - Elon Musk owns ~5.1 billion shares. - Musk also holds ~350 million options. Wealth Impact - Musk net worth may approach $1 trillio
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