cobalt is officially live. two main ships:
validity transactions give advanced market actors more control over when their transactions execute
b20 enhancements make it easier to issue and manage assets on base
Introducing Base Cobalt, our third network upgrade of 2026
Validity Transactions and B20 enhancements are now live on mainnet
Read the full breakdown ↓
Check your potential $BASE X Creator allocation.
A new community-made tool is live:
https://t.co/SRRfEWXtBA
→ Enter your X username
→ Check your estimated allocation
→ See what you might get
Created by @donx_crypto just for fun.
Not official. No guarantee this reflects any future $BASE allocation.
Still worth checking if you’ve been creating Base content.
How much did you get?
AI agents are becoming active participants in the economy.
They need to pay, get paid, hold value, and move money through infrastructure that is always on and programmable.
That requires a new financial system.
We call it AiFi.
Jesse maps out Base's path to $100B TVL with tokenized stocks
"We have grown to about $5B of DeFi on Base with only crypto assets. Now we're bringing the largest asset class in the world"
"We're gonna get to $10B, then $20B, then $50B, then $100B, and then much beyond that"
We spend most of our time here talking about proving. Tonight let's look at the other side of it, the verifier.
🔍 A verifier is the thing that does the checking. It's a piece of code that you give it a result along with the proof that came with it, and it tells you whether the proof holds up.
Checking is quick. The verifier runs a short fixed sequence of math and returns true or false. It never redoes the original work and it never needs the private data behind the claim.
Confirming something is far cheaper than doing it.
📱 Because that check is so cheap, a verifier can run almost anywhere. A server, an app on your phone, a browser tab. On a blockchain it's a smart contract, which is where most people first meet the idea, though plenty of zero-knowledge proofs get verified nowhere near a blockchain.
✅ In practice this is far less complex than it sounds. If you wanted to check a proof yourself, you'd open a page, upload the proof, and wait a moment for a true or false to come back. That's the entire experience.
Which is a big part of why zero-knowledge proofs are so powerful. Anyone, anywhere, at any time can confirm something is true, and they need nothing from whoever produced it.
GitHub powers your code, but it can also power your daily life. 🔋
Instead of downloading another productivity app, manage your tasks right where you already work:
✅ Issues for chores and bills
🏷️ Labels for priority and status
📊 Projects for your daily schedule
Here’s how to set up your personal operating system. 👇
https://t.co/WsO5Zwpb5C
New agent skill: 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚝-𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠-𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜
Add React <𝚅𝚒𝚎𝚠𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗> animations to any React app. Also covers how Next.js can natively integrate them.
• Animate elements across navigations
• Slide pages forward and back
• Smooth loading transitions
• Composition and accessibility handled
big day for agentic commerce and open standards
base is built as an open platform for any builder to grow the global economy and x402 nails that same spirit of openness
agents and apps now have an internet native way to move money as easily as they move data