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Base Says Its Six-Week-Old Stock Tokens Are Doing $70m to $100m a Day
Jesse Pollak, who created Coinbase's Base network, put daily volume on its tokenized equities at $70m to $100m and said stocks and non-dollar stablecoins will drive the next phase of tokenisation.
Base Adds a Forced Transfer Function to the Token Standard Behind Its Stock Tokens
Coinbase's layer 2 shipped its third upgrade of the year, bringing conditional transactions and three changes to B20, the standard underneath its tokenized equities, including issuer-triggered seizure.
Aave Takes Apple and Nvidia Tokens as Collateral, and Only Outside America
Aave V4 on Base now accepts seven Coinbase-issued tokenized stocks as collateral against USDC loans. The list includes Apple, Nvidia and Tesla, and the door is shut to US users.
Coinbase's Stock Tokens on Base Reach 46,700 Holders After a 97-Fold Month
The holder count for Coinbase's tokenized equities on Base rose roughly 97 times in 30 days to 46,700, according to figures the exchange reported. Holders are not volume, and the distinction matters.
Coinbase's Stock Tokens Become Loan Collateral on Base
Morpho has opened lending markets that accept five of Coinbase's tokenized US stocks as collateral for USDC loans on Base, according to The Defiant. It is the step that turns a tokenized share from a holding into a balance sheet item.
Coinbase Drops the Social Experiment and Puts Robinhood Chain in Its Wallet
The Base App is Coinbase Wallet again after just over a year, and the self-custody app now supports more than ten networks including Robinhood Chain, alongside perpetuals, prediction markets and tokenized stocks.
One Venue Takes Four Fifths of Base's Tokenized Stock Volume
Aerodrome accounts for more than 79 percent of tokenized equity trading on Base, according to Crypto Briefing, which makes a single automated market maker the effective order book for the asset class on that chain.
Coinbase's Four Stock Tokens Did $125m of DEX Volume in Four Days
Tokenized shares issued by Coinbase and traded on Base cleared roughly $125m of decentralised exchange volume within four days of launch, according to Crypto Briefing, while Uniswap's weekly tokenized-stock turnover rose by $325m.
A $1m offer for friend.tech, an hour after the token moved 15x
Machi Big Brother offered $1m for friend.tech at 06:07 UTC, citing a market capitalisation under $300k. It had gone to $4.41m at 05:00.
Ratspeak's Token Hit $6m in Six Days, With 94% of Volume on Bankr
RATSPEAK rose 85.3 percent in a day to a $6.00m market capitalisation on $989.1k of volume, 94 percent of it on a single Base venue. The project links the contract on its own site and reads holder balances for a vote it calls an experiment.
Bitwise Builds Index Products Out of Coinbase's Stock Tokens, and Only One Is Live
The ETF issuer has launched self-custodied, auto-rebalancing portfolios of Coinbase-issued tokenized equities on Base. The Mag7X strategy holds four tokens; the AI and robotics models are still labelled coming soon.
Coinbase Puts Four Tokenized Stocks on Base, With $3m of Day One Liquidity
Coinbase's B20 equity tokens covering Nvidia, Apple, Meta and Alphabet went live on its own Layer 2 for non-US users, issued under an Abu Dhabi framework with shares held by custodian Alpaca and prices fed by Chainlink.