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Base is an Ethereum layer-2 blockchain incubated by Coinbase, widely used for USDC stablecoin payments, tokenized assets and AI-agent micropayments.
Coinbase and Marqeta announced on October 16 an expanded deal for stablecoin-backed enterprise cards, with Coinbase handling custody and Base settlement. Merchants see a normal card transaction, so the stablecoin work falls to the two providers.
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Chainalysis counted more than 138 million agent payments through x402 on Base, over 87% of them worth 10 cents or less. CoinDesk noted that transaction counts alone do not establish how much is genuine commercial demand.
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Cloudflare put its Monetization Gateway into closed beta, letting domain owners charge AI agents per request via HTTP 402, with four use cases in production. Cloudflare scopes it to APIs, tools and data, where each request is a single use.
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VVV hit a record $34.51 on September 21, putting Venice near $1.62bn against a $100m annualized run rate. That is about 16 times revenue on a platform whose token burn is paid for out of the same revenue.
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Arkham marked $144bn of fully diluted value two minutes after LAPTOP launched and $5bn at the half hour, and with the SEC's February meme-coin statement in force, the only cops left for the buyers are fraud cops.
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The exchange took an ADGM permission to arrange deals and custody tokenized securities. That is real plumbing, but the case for the UAE as the default institutional base still rests on licence counts.
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