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 ------ 📣 TRANSPORTER - SECURED BY CHAINLINK CCIP | TRY IT OUT www.transporter.io ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE k.xyz/bankless-pod-q2 ⁠ 🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK bankless.cc/Mantle 🌐 CARTESI | APPLY FOR A GRANT bankless.cc/CartesiGovernance 🔗CELO | CEL2 COMING SOON bankless.cc/Celo 🏠 CASA | SECURE YOUR GENERATIONAL WEALTH bankless.cc/Casa 🗣️TOKU | CRYPTO EMPLOYMENT SOLUTION bankless.cc/toku ⚖️ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM ⁠bankless.cc/Arbitrum ------ 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 www.base.org/ Jesse Pollak twitter.com/jessepollak Jesse’s 1st Base Episode youtu.be/7dGU0_eEjq8 Coinbase twitter.com/coinbase Base twitter.com/base ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: www.bankless.com/disclosures