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Base has launched an enterprise-grade privacy transaction infrastructure, Base Ledgers, enabling financial institutions to conduct transactions, payments, and settlements using cryptocurrency while ensuring confidentiality. Base's upcoming upgraded version, Beryl, will introduce new tokenization features, with the core being the native token standard B20. It aims to enhance user experience with a fast, low-cost, and standardized settlement mechanism, allowing global financial assets to exist in programmable capital form on the Base chain and benefit from on-chain composability.

According to ChainCatcher, citing CoinDesk, Ethereum developers have entered the final development stage of the Glamsterdam upgrade and are currently running developer networks (devnets) containing all the planned EIPs, before deploying to public testnets. Parithosh Jayanthi, a core developer at the Ethereum Foundation, stated that this is the final step before codebase hardening and testnet deployment. Although there is no fixed timeline, significant progress has been made. Glamsterdam is expected to go live on the mainnet in the second half of this year and is described as “the largest upgrade since the Merge”, set to change many of Ethereum’s existing assumptions and lay the groundwork for larger-scale scaling in the future. Main features include EIP-7732 (native proposer-builder separation), which introduces a separation mechanism for block building and proposing into the core protocol to reduce MEV manipulation opportunities; and EIP-7928 (block-level access list), which allows blocks to predeclare the account and contract data they will access, improving execution efficiency. Glamsterdam also includes a series of gas repricings that will significantly alter operating costs on Ethereum: operations with high computational demands will become cheaper, while state management costs will increase.

BlockBeats News, June 17th, Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan announced that the platform has celebrated its 6th anniversary. Reflecting on the original vision behind the project and the industry's evolution since then, Coplan expressed gratitude for being able to continue working around the concept of "Information Markets." He stated that witnessing global adoption of this concept was "awe-inspiring," but acknowledged that the industry still has a long development path ahead. He also shared a historical post from June 2020 when Polymarket launched its public beta, highlighting the platform's focus on an on-chain information market based on USDC settlement. The platform covered topics such as the COVID-19 pandemic, politics, and cryptocurrency, and was described as "an unprecedented trading experience on Ethereum." Analysts pointed out that the prediction market track represented by Polymarket has continuously expanded in recent years, transitioning from early crypto experimental products to broader information pricing and event trading tools.