{"id":428722,"date":"2026-05-29T04:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/base-launches-azul-upgrade-takes-step-toward-stage-2-decentralization-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T05:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:34:05","slug":"base-launches-azul-upgrade-takes-step-toward-stage-2-decentralization-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/base-launches-azul-upgrade-takes-step-toward-stage-2-decentralization-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Base Launches Azul Upgrade, Takes Step Toward Stage 2 Decentralization &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Base, the Layer 2 blockchain incubated by Coinbase, activated its Azul network upgrade on mainnet this month, marking the chain&#8217;s first independent protocol upgrade and a significant step toward Stage 2 decentralization. The upgrade launched on Base Sepolia testnet on April 21 and was targeted for&#8230; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/blockchains\/base-launches-azul-upgrade-takes-step-toward-stage-2-decentralization\">Read the full story at The Defiant<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Base, the Layer 2 blockchain incubated by Coinbase, activated its Azul network upgrade on mainnet this month, marking the chain&#8217;s first independent protocol upgrade and a significant step toward Stage 2 decentralization. The upgrade launched on Base Sepolia testnet on April 21 and was targeted for&#8230; Read the full story at The Defiant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-428722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428724,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428722\/revisions\/428724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}