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
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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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