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Coinbase's BOLDEST Bet Is Paying Off Big Time

While it's still early in the race, Base is now one of Ethereum’s largest L2s.

In today’s episode, we brought back on repeat guest and co-creator of Coinbase’s L2, Base, Jesse Pollak.

We cover:

  • How Base plans to bring billions of users onchain
  • How Base is increasing its scale by 400x
  • How Coinbase is using Base to be more onchain
  • Onchain Summer II

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
4:41 Base’s First 8 Months
9:23 The Road to 1 Giga Gas Per Second
18:39 Why More Demand For Base?
21:26 Cost to Send Transactions on Base
23:59 Non-Ethereum DA Solution?
25:59 Scaling Via L3s on Base?
27:17 Parallelization Solution?
29:34 Will Base Make Transactions Free?
38:18 Coinbase's Relationship With Base
46:18 Base Is Centralized Critique
50:17 The Base Flywheel
57:46 Onchain Summer II
58:36 Next Target Demo to Come Onchain
1:00:42 Base Independence
1:02:19 1 Billion People Onchain
1:03:25 Closing & Disclosures


RESOURCES

Onchain Summer II
https://www.base.org/

Jesse Pollak
https://twitter.com/jessepollak

Jesse’s 1st Base Episode
https://youtu.be/7dGU0_eEjq8

Coinbase
https://twitter.com/coinbase

Base
https://twitter.com/base


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