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Coinbase’s New Base Blockchain Gobbled Up $68M in Ether, and It’s Not Even Officially Live Yet

Meme coin BALD’s 4,000,000% surge seemed to spark the huge inflows to the nascent crypto bridge.

Updated Aug 7, 2023, 12:32 p.m. Published Jul 31, 2023, 5:00 p.m.
Some $66 million ether was bridged to Base blockchain. (Gerd Altmann/ Pixabay)
Some $66 million ether was bridged to Base blockchain. (Gerd Altmann/ Pixabay)