Base Token Confirmed?

• ⭐️ In regards to a Base token; Coinbase Legal Officer, Paul Grewal stated, "I think a token could be viable at some point in the future," and, "It's not something we've ruled out entirely," in an interview at Mainnet2023.

• Rainbow releases Rainbow browser extension. The extension is available on Chrome, Arc, Edge, and Brave with Safari and Firefox support coming later this year. Users can also mint a commemorative NFT to remember the moment.

• Omni Overdrive campaign with DripVerse is live. Omni Network is a layer 1 blockchain built to connect all rollups and previously raised $18 million.

• Debank reveals new Web3 Badge for Binance Account Bound Token Owners. Mint begins on September 23rd on 00:00 UTC.

• Uniswap Foundation announces Uniswap University, an education platform tailored for everyone.

• Arbitrum airdrop claim expiring. Claim if you have not already.

• ⭐️ Binance US file a request to dismiss the SEC lawsuit against them citing the SEC's allegations are unsubstantiated.

• Sam Bankman Fried's request for release before trial denied by U.S. Court of Appeals.

• U.S. Department of Justice granted motion to prevent 7 witnesses testify on Sam Bankman Fried's behalf. The motion cited the testimony's would be irrelevant to the trial and/or confuse the facts for the jury.

• ⭐️ Mt Gox Rehabilitation Trustee changes the deadline of repayments from October 31, 2023 to October 31, 2024.

• House Financial Services Committee passes bill to ban the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC.

• Bybit cryptocurrency exchange is halting U.K. operations starting on October 8th. The decision was made ahead of the U.K.'s new strict advertising laws.

• PayPal's stablecoin, $PYUSD; is now available to Venmo users.

• Ethereum Dencun upgrade potentially delayed until early next year. The decision depends on if Dencun is deployed on public testnet before Devconnect in November.

• Optimism sells over 116 million $OP tokens worth nearly $160 million to seven private buyers. The tokens are subject to a two-year lockup period, but can be used for governance purposes.

• Chainlink CCIP is live on Arbitrum. Chainlink CCIP provides developers tools to create natively cross-chain apps.

• Conduit, an Ethereum rollup deployment platform; releases support for Arbitrum Orbit, including Stylus.

• Polygon Labs proposes Celo migrate to an Ethereum Layer 2 using Polygon's Chain Development Kit (CDK). This proposal is in response to Celo's core development team proposing the same plan, but with the OP Stack.

• ViaBTC mining pool controls more than 51% of Zcash's network hashrate according to a Coinbase blog post. As a result, Coinbase has increased Zcash confirmation requirements to reduce risk of double-spending or fraudulent transactions.

• UniSat announces release of BRC20-swap for early public testing on September 26th.

• LiFi now supports Linea. Users can use Jumper to bridge to and from Linea. Developers can Integrate LiFi's API, SDK, or Widget to offer bridging routes to/from Linea.

• Fuji Finance closing down due to lack of funding. Users advised to withdraw and close positions.

• Apple issues security patches for 3 zero-day exploits. iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari users are advised to update to the latest versions.

• ⭐️ Nansen third-party vendor compromised. ~6.8% of users emails were exposed, password hashes and blockchain addresses were exposed for a smaller percentage of users. Affected users were contacted via email.

• Linear Finance exploited. The attacker was able to mint unlimited $LAAVE and traded it for $LUSD, resulting in the price going to zero.

• Tether makes strategic investment into Northern Data Group; Europe’s largest Bitcoin mining company.

• Proof of Play, an onchain game studio & technology company; raises $33 million in Seed funding round led by a16z and Greenoaks.

• Mesh, a cryptocurrency assets management and payments platform; raises $22 million in Series A funding.

• Essential, an intent-based infrastructure; raises $5.15 million in Seed funding round.

• Freatic, an information markets protocol; raises $3.6 million in Seed funding round led by a16z crypto.

• Orb, a Lens protocol client; raises $2.3 million in pre-seed funding round.

• Binance announces Season 6 Incubation Program cohort. Projects include Vistara, UXUY, BBOX, Derivio, Ethena, Shogun, MyShell, NFPrompt, QnA3, Cellula, Crypto Cafe, and MetaCene.