In today's show, we bring on Ben Jones, Chief Scientist of the Optimism Foundation, Karl Floersch, CTO at OP Labs, and Jing Wang, Executive Director of Optimism Foundation

The five discuss Coinbase's Base launch, the OP Stack integration, and what it means for the Superchains vision!

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------ Timestamps:

0:00 Intro 6:20 Sentiment at Optimism 7:00 Biggest Deal with the News? 11:28 Reflection on Coinbase's Base 15:45 OP Stack 17:15 Is Base a Competitor? 20:53 Puberty State of Chains 33:30 Superchains 40:35 Security of the Superchains 44:35 Superchain Standards 51:51 Base Decentralization Timeline? 57:10 Closing & Disclaimers

------ Resources:

Coinbase Base Announcement https://www.coinbase.com/blog/introducing-base

Optimism + OP STack Details https://optimism.mirror.xyz/2jk3D1Y8-hid8YOCUUa6yXmsyzNCYYyFJP0Nhaey9x0

Ben Jones https://twitter.com/ben_chain

Karl Floersch https://twitter.com/karl_dot_tech

Jing Wang https://twitter.com/jinglejamop

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Optimism Base Superchain 🔵_🔴 with Ben Jones, Karl Floersch, & Jing Wang