Base Beryl upgrade coming soon, introducing the B20 native token standard and shortening withdrawal cycles

Deep Tide TechFlow News, June 17th, according to the official Base documentation, the Base network will officially activate the Beryl hard fork upgrade at 18:00 UTC on June 25, 2026 (the Sepolia testnet will activate early on June 18). This upgrade mainly includes three core components:

1. Launching the B20 native token standard, which is compatible with ERC-20, implemented in Rust precompilation, targeting stablecoin, real-world asset (RWA), and long-tail token issuers;

2. Reducing the single proof withdrawal completion window from 7 days to 5 days, helping to release liquidity efficiency for fast bridge providers and lowering user costs when bridging through third parties; the dual proof fast path (TEE + ZK) introduced in the Azul upgrade remains unchanged at 1 day;

3. Introducing Reth V2, which reduces disk space usage by up to 50%, and after rewriting the state root calculation pipeline, throughput increases by 33%.

Node operators must complete software upgrades to the required version before the activation date of each network, or they will be unable to operate normally.