Base: Institutions Shift Finance to Crypto Rails

Base now hosts the second-largest borrow/lend market globally and processes more Bitcoin and Ethereum spot trades than any other chain, according to Jesse Pollak. Every major financial institution is moving operations onto crypto rails, with 90% of agentic-finance transactions on x402 already settling on Base while competing ecosystems post TVL declines since 2025.

ETH trades at $1901.99 inside its Bollinger band with the upper resistance at $1925.2 acting as immediate volatility exhaustion target; the 50-EMA at $1885.26 and 200-EMA at $1834.35 remain concrete support levels while MACD golden cross at 9.71 keeps the 4h structure bullish and RSI at 56.25 leaves room before overbought conditions develop.