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Base's Jesse Pollak pitches a tokenized-equities 'supercycle' — with most of the numbers coming from Base
At Token2049 Singapore, Base creator Jesse Pollak told The Block that tokenized equities and non-dollar stablecoins will drive the next wave of tokenization, citing Coinbase's six-week-old tokenized-stock launch and $3.3 billion in circulating supply.
Base ships Cobalt upgrade, adding conditional transactions and an admin balance-seizure function
Coinbase-incubated Layer 2 Base activated its Cobalt mainnet upgrade on September 30, adding conditional "Validity Transactions" and new controls to its B20 token standard, including an administrator function to seize and reassign holders' balances.
Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token debuts near $1.6B, then falls 98% inside an hour
Hunter Biden's LAPTOP memecoin peaked at $190.81 within two minutes of its Base debut on September 9, then fell about 98% to under $4 inside an hour, with onchain data showing tokens sent to market makers days before trading opened.
Moonwell drained for about $8.7 million in a MAMO price-manipulation attack — its fourth pricing failure in under a year
An attacker inflated the price of the thinly traded MAMO token on Base, borrowed against it and drained roughly $8.7 million from Moonwell's lending markets, forcing a protocol-wide borrowing freeze.
Morpho ships Midnight, a fixed-rate lending protocol, on Base
Morpho publicly launched Midnight, a fixed-rate, fixed-term lending protocol, on Base, positioning it alongside its variable-rate Morpho Blue and pitching institutional credit use cases.