Leading American crypto exchange Coinbase ventured deeper into the on-chain economy with the launch of its Ethereum layer-2 network Base in 2023. Originally billed as "a 'bridge' for users into the ...

Brian Armstrong, founder of Coinbase, photographed for Forbes by Jamel Toppin in January 2020. Coinbase officially launched the public mainnet for its long-awaited Base layer 2 blockchain network on ...

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 ...

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 ...