🤯 Base announces massive blockchain shift

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BTC $66,485 (-1.6%) | ETH $1,947 (-1.8%) | SOL $81 (-2.7%)

• Base announces move away from Optimism to a Base operated stack

• OpenAI partners with Paradigm to launch “EVM Bench” benchmark which measures how well AI agents can detect, and fix smart contract vulnerabilities — Finalizing $100B funding round

• The Ethereum Foundation releases their 2026 Protocol Priorities Update

• Third stablecoin yield meeting is set to take place this morning at the White House

• Hyperliquid launches policy lobbying group seeded with $28M worth of HYPE

• Polymarket rolls out user sponsored markets

• Kraken acquires Magna token manager

• The UAE mines $455M worth of Bitcoin through Citadel

• Novig sports trading platform raises $75M led by Pantera

• TokenWorks announces season 2 campaign

• BTC and ETH ETFs continue outflow streak

• Fxhash raises new round backed by Coinbase Ventures

• Brian Armstrong speaks the the World Liberty Forum

• The Fed publishes research paper on Kalshi and macro markets