Baby Base (BASE)

🚨TOP 10 CRYPTO & WEB3 UPDATES FOR 25 JUNE 2026🚨

Base is preparing to activate a major network upgrade today, while Ripple, Chainlink and StarkWare advance regulated stablecoins, faster settlement and privacy-preserving identity infrastructure. For builders and community members, today’s opportunities include a $50,000 global Solana hackathon, a Nigeria-only development bounty, an incentivised testnet and an onchain rewards quest.

Here’s your sharp global Web3 catch‑up 👇

1️⃣ Base schedules Beryl mainnet upgrade for today.
@base is scheduled to activate its Beryl upgrade on mainnet today, June 25, at 7:00 p.m. WAT. Beryl introduces B20, a native token standard intended for stablecoins, real‑world assets and long‑tail tokens. It also reduces the single‑proof withdrawal finalisation period from seven days to five and introduces Reth V2 improvements that could reduce disk usage by up to 50% while increasing throughput by approximately 33%.
Node operators must upgrade to the required software before activation.

.@loganallc broke down the utility + mechanics of base:0x9b5e262cf9bb04869ab40b19af91d2dc85761722

- No staking, no yield
- Fixed supply
- Hard money backed by useful proof-of-work
- Inspired by Bittensor's subnet model
- Q4 ZK upgrade adds privacy + programmability to transactions
- Early July AI compute network launch

"The purest expression of a proof of useful work thesis. Compute networks can be launched for any type of useful work vertical."