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Inside Base's x402 Rail and Its New Push to Fund Onchain Finance

Base pointed its Ecosystem Fund at global onchain finance this week, days after the x402 payment standard it built moved under a new Linux Foundation body backed by Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe.

Jul 20Descout

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YGG Sunset, Three Chain Migrations: Abstract's Hard 2026 in Context

YGG cut 35 staff and sunset YGG Play citing an unsustainable market, the same stretch Kabu, Final Bosu and most of Fugz relocated off Abstract to Ethereum — and Base's own founder called Q1 2026 a punch in the face.

Jul 17Descout

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Fugz Nears Full ETH Migration as Its Abstract Ecosystem Tops 10K Holders

Fugz now counts 10,117 unique holders and 22,329 assets across Abstract, even as its 5,555-piece PFP collection sits 85%+ migrated to Ethereum mainnet.

Jul 15Descout

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Bigcoin's Rise, Handover, and the Launchpad That Never Shipped

Bigcoin's Abstract mining game reportedly reached tens of thousands of users by its April 2025 peak. A founder's exit and an audited-but-unshipped launchpad plan, Merge Mining, left it drifting by early 2026.

Jul 12Descout

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Zero To Hero's Path From Web3 Playboys to an Ethereum Mainnet Academy

Zero To Hero Academy's collaborations went live July 6 and a limited pre-sale is coming — the Ethereum mainnet extension of the Abstract-native Zero To Hero brand, built on a summer of viral TikTok growth and community events.

Jul 12Descout

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Maze of Gains 2.0: What Onchain Heroes Rebuilt, and What Its Playtest Showed

Onchain Heroes rebuilt its Maze of Gains dungeon crawler around a new battle system and persistent upgrades, then proved it out with an incentivized playtest — 399 players, 4,651 runs, and 500 Arcade Keys on the line.

Jul 11Descout

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Kona's 72-Hour Multi-Chain Build-Out: What's Live, What's Still Coming

Kona launched a Solana DEX, a KonaSOL liquid-staking token, and a new Abstract protocol-fee staking pool within about 48 hours — but the Abstract fee flow is still "coming soon," and Kona's own DEX page shows the Solana side trading on roughly $504 in liquidity across 12 holders.

Jul 9Descout

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Kona's $PUNCH Airdrop Snapshot Lands July 15: Mechanics and Open Questions

Kona and Kona Kitty holders have 12 days before KittyPunch's July 15 $PUNCH snapshot, where a rising "Punch Score" rewards accumulating $KONA and penalizes selling — on a token trading roughly $6,500 a day with a supply fixed near 17,500 tokens, and a $PUNCH token whose total supply and allocation remain undisclosed.

Jul 7Descout