Jesse Pollak on Coinbase Base

Описание: Jesse Pollak leads Coinbase Base, which enables 1 cent transactions on Ethereum. We discuss the motivation behind Base, monetization for creators & companies, local stablecoins, network states, and the Base Batches session at Network School.

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OUTLINE
0:00 - Intro to Jesse
1:56 - Is Base a coinless chain?
3:58 - What is the problem that Base solves?
10:00 - The opportunity to build a global economy
19:12 - Blockspace is the fundamental constraint of crypto
25:04 - Equity-backed assets on Base
32:34 - Base Batches at Network School
43:18 - How does crypto relate to network states?
48:09 - Balaji’s advice for young builders

CITATIONS
(1) Base batches: https://www.basebatches.xyz/
(2) Base: https://www.base.org/
(3) What are smart contracts: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/...
(4) Coinbase exchange API: https://www.coinbase.com/developer-pl...
(5) Layer 1 vs Layer 2 blockchains: https://www.investopedia.com/what-are...
(6) Ethereum average gas price: https://etherscan.io/chart/gasprice
(7) Plasma scaling strategy: https://www.plasma.io/plasma.pdf
(8) A rollup-centric Ethereum roadmap: https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-ro...
(9) How do optimistic rollups work: https://www.alchemy.com/overviews/opt...
(10) Introducing the OP stack: https://optimism.mirror.xyz/fLk5UGjZD...
(11) Building Base for the long term: https://base.mirror.xyz/HwG1GQ5hoxz0O...
(12) Farcaster: https://www.farcaster.xyz/
(13) Blackbird blockchain restaurant: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/02...
(14) Moxie Marlinspike’s first impressions of Web3: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-fir...
(15) Blockspace is rapidly increasing but costly and finite: https://x.com/balajis/status/14798630...
(16) Local stable coins on Base: https://x.com/jessepollak/status/1907...
(17) Coinbase plans to tokenize $COIN: https://cryptobriefing.com/coinbase-t...
(18) Network School Fellowship: https://ns.com/fellowship
(19) Visualizing crowd sizes: https://blog.lime.link/visualizing-cr...
(20) Crypto civilization vs crypto anarchy: https://x.com/balajis/status/14522034...
(21) Bundling and unbundling: https://fintechtakes.com/articles/202...
(22) Digital divide: https://www.investopedia.com/the-digi...
(23) Global steel production visualized: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visu...
(24) China leads growth of robot stock: https://www.statista.com/chart/31337/...
(25) Drone manufacturers by market share: https://arc-group.com/china-thriving-...
(26) How China became the worlds largest car exporter: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
(27) China’s BYD overtakes Tesla: https://www.statista.com/chart/31496/...
(28) BYD pulls ahead of Tesla to become largest EV maker: https://www.statista.com/chart/33709/...
(29) Complete list of unicorn companies globally: https://eqvista.com/complete-list-uni...
(30) Daily hours spent with digital media per adult user: https://www.mediaculture.fr/wp-conten...
(31) Centralization, decentralization, recentralization: https://x.com/balajis/status/12486781...
(32) Foundation: https://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Isa...

SOCIAL
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