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The core team at Base, a blockchain network backed by Coinbase, said it is gearing up for an upcoming mainnet launch. The launch, however, is dependent on several conditions being met.

“Our launch criteria include demonstrated testnet stability, Optimism’s successful upgrade of Bedrock, and completion of reviews and audits,” the Base team noted in a blog post, emphasizing their goal of ensuring secure network operations.

The forthcoming Bedrock upgrade by Optimism, scheduled for June, is anticipated to enhance the security and resilience of the Optimism mainnet bridge. This improvement is considered vital for the projects built upon it, such as Base.

Built on Optimism’s development software stack, known as the OP Stack, Base is designed to serve as a rollup network, similar to Optimism. It aims to execute off-chain computations on a secondary layer to facilitate faster, cheaper transactions — all while maintaining the security benefits of the Ethereum mainnet. Furthermore, this solution could potentially become the default Layer 2 network for Coinbase’s on-chain products.

Base remains on testnet

The project is in a testnet phase for now. Testnets are replicas of the actual network used for testing purposes. If the testnet operates smoothly and without glitches, it would be an indicator that the mainnet could function effectively as well.

The Base team reported the testnet has drawn interest from a range of developers and projects, including Blackbird, Thirdweb, OAK, and Parallel. Additionally, notable DeFi platforms like Uniswap and Aave are considering deploying on Base once it goes live.

The team added that after the mainnet rollout later this year, the network will enter a “genesis window” period, during which developers will be able deploy apps with direct support from the Base core team. The team said it does not plan to issue a network token.

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The silence coming from the Multichain’s leadership team is causing further uncertainty for users of the cross-chain protocol with $1.5 billion in total value locked.

The protocol has had five days of stuck transactions and it still has multiple cross-chain bridge pathways — Kava, zkSync, Polygon zkEVM — that are not yet online. The first purported cause was that this was due to an upgrade that was getting fixed, but the explanation was changed yesterday to an ambigious “force majeure.“

This comes alongside unverified rumors on Twitter that the core leadership team may have been arrested in China.

Multichain co-founder DJ Qian, who no longer works with the project, said on Twitter today that he asked the current Multichain CEO Zhaojun and its founding partner Xu Guochang to see if they could provide any technical help. When asked what the situation is with Zhaojun, he replied that he’s “not available yet.”

In a group Telegram message with the Multichain team, Multichain’s VP of Strategic Partnerships, who goes by Mog, replied that he didn’t know whether the leadership team had been detained by Chinese authorities. Zhaojun did not reply in the group, nor to a direct message through the same app.

On the project’s Discord server and Telegram groups, there have similarly been no updates, with community members told to wait for further updates.

In the meantime, the price of Multichain’s native token MULTI has continued to slide and is now down to $4.98, having declined 23% in the last 24 hours.

Projects reacting to the silence

Conflux Network is the latest entity to respond to the situation. It has suspended Multichain’s co-mint privileges as a precaution. This prevents Multichain from minting tokens on its blockchain. It added that it will help to work with users if there are any losses that arise.

Yesterday, the Fantom Foundation withdrew $2.4 million in liquidity of the protocol’s native MULTI tokens on decentralized exchange SushiSwap and crypto investment firm HashKey Group moved $250,000 to crypto exchange Gate.io. Tron founder Justin Sun also withdrew 470,000 of the USDD stablecoin from the protocol itself.

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