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b'Welcome to The Chopping Block \\u2013 where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra, and Robert Leshner chop it up about the latest news. This week, Coinbase\\u2019s Jesse Pollak talks about the ambitious goals of Base, the new Optimism\\u2013based blockchain from the publicly traded crypto giant. With the viral success of Base-based Friend.Tech, Jesse discusses the Base team\\u2019s ambitious goals to onboard \\u201ca million builders, a billion users.\\u201d Is this the long-heralded path to scaling Ethereum?\\nListen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.\\nShow highlights:\\xa0\\n\\nwhy Jesse says it\\u2019s still \\u201cday one\\u201d for Base\\n\\nthe reason behind Base\\u2019s \\u201cone million developers, one billion users\\u201d slogan\\n\\nwhat the advantages of Base are compared to other layer 2 blockchains\\n\\nhow Base accounts for the fact that it doesn\\u2019t have a token to incentivize developer activity\\n\\nhow MEV bots represent a big part of the transactions on Base, especially with the emergence of Friend.Tech\\n\\nwhy Friend.Tech found early success despite being similar to previous efforts\\xa0\\n\\nJesse\\u2019s response to the fact that fault proofs are not live on any of the OP Stack chains\\n\\nhow much of the revenue generated by Coinbase\\u2019s sequencer will be distributed to Optimism\\n\\nwhether Base and Optimism Mainnet compete with each other\\xa0\\n\\nhow layer 2 chains are choosing different design paths and how that differentiates them\\n\\n\\nHosts\\n\\n\\nHaseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly\\xa0\\n\\n\\nRobert Leshner, founder of Compound\\n\\n\\nTom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly\\xa0\\n\\n\\nTarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures\\n\\n\\nGuest\\n\\nJesse Pollak, lead contributor at Base\\nDisclosures\\nLinks\\n\\nUnchained: Coinbase Launches a New Layer 2 on Ethereum\\n\\n\\nCoinDesk: Social Platform Friend.tech Gains 100K Users in Days Even in Depths of a Bear Market\\n\\n\\nTechCrunch: Friend.tech hype is skyrocketing, but will it actually reach the stars?\\n\\n\\nDecrypt: Base Daily Transactions Outpace Ethereum on Friend.tech Frenzy \\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'