TLDR Tech / Crypto
This Week on Base: Beryl, B20, & More
Base shipped Beryl and the B20 Native Token Standard to mainnet this week, and Aerodrome hit #1 in BTC-USD spot volume while capturing over 50% of onchain FX spot volume in Q2. Cloudflare opened an x402 monetization gateway for pages, datasets, APIs, and MCP tools, and Apify added 20,000+ web automation tools for agents via x402, widening the protocol's distribution across web infrastructure. Centrifuge deployed $50M+ in tokenized AAA CLOs on Base as Ethena collateral, and OpenStandard launched Open USD, a stablecoin for the internet economy, on Base. ClawBank's Manfred AI agent registered as the first zero-human US company, running a full agentic banking operation on Base.
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