The Power of Onchain: Updating the System with Jesse Pollak, Creator of Base

In this episode, we’re joined by Jesse Pollak, the creator of Base. Our conversation dives into the details behind moving Coinbase onchain, building Base as a 'company within a company', and combining the strengths of Coinbase and Optimism to create a global onchain economy.

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We discuss Base’s lean and engineering-driven team structure, the purpose of economic alliances between chains, pioneering governance strategies, standardizing metrics in the industry, and the paradigm shift that building onchain enables for decision-making, product development, and more efficient business operations.

Tune in for a great discussion about the fundamentals of Base and building onchain.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
00:52 Let’s get Jesse bald!
03:07 Why build Base as a company within a company?
05:44 Is Base to Coinbase what AWS is to Amazon?
06:20 The future of compute: Onchain and serverless
10:40 From legacy systems to onchain: a practical approach
13:40 What makes DAOs powerful?
16:22 Team composition and hiring at Base
24:49 Standardizing metrics in the industry
25:44 Introduction to the Superchain ecosystem
27:14 The importance of interoperability and asset fungibility
31:16 The economic arrangement between Base and Optimism
33:17 Base as the hub of the onchain economy
37:24 Coinbase x Optimism: An iconic duo
38:04 Governance as a differentiator with L2s
45:18 Leveraging onchain data for growth and decision making

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Base: https://www.base.org/
Jesse on X: https://x.com/jessepollak
Base on X: https://x.com/base

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