Based Rollups: The Next Frontier of Ethereum Scaling with Justin Drake

What exactly are Based Rollups?

We’ve brought Ethereum Researcher and Bankless recurring guest, Justin Drake, to give us his reasoning on why he thinks the future of Ethereum is Based.

A handful of teams are already working on this Based Rollup future so, with this episode, and perhaps a few more, we’re front running it all and getting you downloaded on all things Based Rollups. Enjoy!

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
3:12 How’s the Roadmap Going?
9:55 The Most Logical Progression
14:13 Aggregating DeFi Apps
21:03 What Based Rollups Solve
41:22 Ethereum as the Sequencer
47:19 Based Rollups Core Advantages
56:00 Shared Sequencers vs Based Rollups
1:06:33 Based Rollups & Superchain
1:22:43 Ethereum L1 Capacity
1:29:45 Impact on ETH Economics
1:30:55 Impact on DeFi
1:33:43 Impact on User Experience
1:37:59 ETH Value Accrual
1:49:54 Trade-Offs
1:55:13 Bankless Summit
1:57:22 Closing & Disclaimers

RESOURCES

Justin Drake
https://x.com/drakefjustin

Based Rollups
https://ethresear.ch/t/based-rollups-superpowers-from-l1-sequencing/15016

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