Enthusiasm for Optimism and Essential Crypto Tools

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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