Striking a Balance: Preserving Sovereignty within a Larger Structure

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This chapter explores the challenges of maintaining an open and permissionless base while upholding economic, governance, and social sovereignty within a larger framework. It discusses the importance of long-term articulation and understanding, the need for collaboration and feedback to improve the project, and the tension between individual expression and societal rules in the blockchain space.

On today’s episode we brought on repeat Bankless guests, Ben Jones, Co-Founder of Optimism and Creator of Base, Jesse Pollock.

------ ✨ DEBRIEF | Ryan & David unpacking the episode: https://www.bankless.com/debrief-superchain

----- Base! Coinbase’s Layer 2 has almost hit 1 million users in 2 weeks. It has more transactions per second than Ethereum mainnet. Jesse digs into the magnitude of this development. Base chain was built on Optimism’s tech stack. This is just 1 chain of many thousands we’ll see over the coming years. How do we tie them all together? Ben dives into all things Superchain. The Superchain is how we bring 1 billion people onchain.

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----- TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro 7:42 Base Launch Reflection 9:53 Optimism’s Reflection 11:35 Coinbase x Optimism Collaboration 17:14 OP Stack Incentives 23:43 Base’s Impressive Numbers 26:26 Explaining the Superchain 31:40 Why Join the Superchain? 33:55 The Law of Chains 45:26 The Coinbase Onchain Formula 51:15 Base Part of Optimism Governance 58:40 What About Other L2s? 1:04:56 Optimism Collective’s Fee 1:08:25 The Tech Behind the Superchain 1:13:34 Superchain Timeline 1:15:45 Fault Proofs 1:18:36 Risk Profile of Base 1:22:15 Optimism’s Governance Minimization 1:24:10 Wen Fault Proofs & Stages 1:30:00 How Many Clients Does Optimism Have? 1:33:36 Near Term Focus For Base 1:37:01 Near Term Focus For Optimism 1:38:27 Closing & Disclosures

----- RESOURCES

Jesse Pollock https://twitter.com/jessepollak

Ben Jones https://twitter.com/ben_chain

The Law of Chains https://gov.optimism.io/t/law-of-chains-v0-1-full-draft/6514

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