Base Resumes Operations After Two-Hour Outage
Base, the Coinbase-incubated layer-2 blockchain, has resumed operations following a two-hour outage that interrupted block production on the network. The disruption, described as an "unsafe h
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Floki Is Five Years Old Today...
From Meme to Multi-Vertical Ecosystem @Floki turns five years old today, and the project looks markedly different from the community-driven meme asset it started as in June 2021. Since its la
Data boom, slow 5G and rising costs: review of Nigeria’s telecom industry data in H1 2026
The telecommunications industry witnessed a mix of outcomes, policy formations and challenges during the first half of 2026. These, in turn, have shaped the experience of millions of Nigerian
Base Mainnet Stalls After Invalid Block Halts Production
Base mainnet suffered a chain stall on June 25 after a consensus problem allowed an invalid block to be sequenced, stopping new blocks after block 47806542. The outage disrupted mainnet block
New Open‑Source FPGA Code is Poised to Bring Private Payments, Verifiable AI, and Instant Gaming to Ethereum Layer 2s
San Francisco, CA — First public release of a complete FPGA implementation for zero‑knowledge proofs could finally make ZK‑rollups cheap enough for consumer‑scale applications. A team of hard
Base Mainnet Suffers Major Outage as Block Production Turns…
What Happened on Base? Base suffered a major mainnet outage on Thursday after a problematic block interfered with subsequent block building, disrupting one of the most active Ethereum scaling
James Wynn says SHIB is dead
Wynn Calls SHIB a Relic of a Bygone Cycle Trader and analyst @JamesWynnReal has issued a blunt verdict on Shiba Inu ($SHIB), characterising the legacy meme token as "old, dead, and boring." I
Floki Is Five Years Old Today...
From Meme to Multi-Vertical Ecosystem @Floki turns five years old today, and the project looks markedly different from the community-driven meme asset it started as in June 2021. Since its la
Base halts its mainnet, traces the cause to a problematic block
Base Mainnet Halts Block Production @base mainnet went down on June 25, 2026, after @coinbase's Ethereum layer-2 stopped producing blocks over what it described as an "unsafe head stall." The
Bitcoin Faces Unprecedented Drop as Inflation Concerns Rise
You can also read this news on BH NEWS: Bitcoin Faces Unprecedented Drop as Inflation Concerns Rise Bitcoin‘s value has plummeted to $58,035 during the recent Wall Street session, marking its
Spark and Uniswap Build FX Layer for Stablecoin Swaps
Why Are Spark and Uniswap Building a Stablecoin FX Layer? Spark and Uniswap have launched the "FX Layer," a new stablecoin liquidity system designed to make swapping between dollar-pegged dig
Claude gains on ChatGPT in paying consumer market, transaction data shows
BitcoinWorld Claude gains on ChatGPT in paying consumer market, transaction data shows Anthropic’s Claude is steadily winning over paying consumers, a segment long dominated by OpenAI’s ChatG