Base Hit a Brief Chain Stall Prior to Beryl Upgrade

Coinbase-incubated Layer 2 Base stalled block production for about two hours Thursday after an invalid block triggered a consensus fault, before the network recovered. The outage renewed scrutiny of single-sequencer risk on major rollups.

Base, the Ethereum layer-two network backed by Coinbase, plans to activate its Beryl upgrade on mainnet this coming week on June 25, 2026, at 18:00 UTC. A New Native Token Standard The upgrade introduces B20, a new native token standard built directly into the node software rather than deployed as a smart contract. Base engineers […]

The Beryl upgrade's focus on infrastructure and token standards may enhance Base's ecosystem, potentially influencing future token launches. The post Base to launch Beryl upgrade with B20 token standard on June 25 appeared first on Crypto Briefing.