Coinbase CEO Admits Base ‘Messed Up’ on Content Coins, Shifts Focus to Trading and AI
For one of the largest exchange-backed layer-2 networks, the message was blunt. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told the community that Base’s earlier experiments with content coins had failed. “They…
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