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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1 Billion Users Onchain | Jesse Pollak of Base