protocol
Aerodrome and Velodrome merge into Aero across seven chains
Dromos Labs ships the Aerodrome–Velodrome combination it announced in late 2025. AERO and VELO migrate to a single AERO; veAERO and veVELO convert to sAERO.
Stories tagged: #base
protocol
Uniswap v4 aggregator hooks go live, routing seven external DEXs
Uniswap Labs ships aggregator hooks on Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain. Each hook wraps an external DEX as a v4 pool so routers quote outside liquidity in a single transaction.
infrastructure
Sophon's zkSync chain shuts down November 30, with a withdrawal cliff on November 25
The team sets a five-day withdrawal window before shutting its ZK Stack chain; the project pivots to a consumer-finance app studio on Base.
infrastructure
Coinbase and Marqeta expand card deal to settle stablecoin spend on Base
Marqeta and Coinbase announced on October 16 an expanded card partnership; Coinbase custodies the stablecoins and settles on Base, Marqeta issues and processes.
exploit
Base vault loses 1,783 wstETH ($6M) after multisig signs attacker twice in 90 seconds
An unidentified Base vault's 3-of-7 Safe approved an attacker contract, let it drain 1,783 wstETH via Aave V3, then re-approved it — $31.7M still exposed under the same multisig.
protocol
Base activates Cobalt: conditional transactions and B20 seize-with-memo go live
Base's third mainnet upgrade lands validity transactions, composite allow/blocklist policies, ERC-8056 schedule multipliers, and a seizeWithMemo function for B20-standard tokens.
infrastructure
Base mainnet stalls after block 47,806,542, hours before Beryl activation
A consensus bug sequenced an invalid block, halting Base's single sequencer for ~2 hours. Sequencing restored by 17:51 UTC; Beryl mainnet upgrade still set for 18:00 UTC.
protocol
Base Beryl hardfork hits Sepolia, mainnet activation set for June 25
Beryl ships a native B20 token precompile, cuts L1 withdrawal delay from 7 to 5 days, and lands Reth V2 with ~50% lower disk and +33% throughput. Sepolia live June 18, mainnet June 25.