Building Base with Coinbase's Distinguished Engineer Roberto Bayardo | EP #99

Roberto Bayardo is a Distinguished Engineer spearheading Base Coinbase's L2 Roberto's Twitter: @roberto_bayardo Base's Twitter: https://twitter.com/BuildOnBase Base's Website: https://base.org/ Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_ Frictionless's Website: ⁠https://frictionless.fund/⁠ ___ Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 1:06 - Thank you to Coinbase 3:25 - Roberto's Background 6:00 - Why Coinbase choose to build on Ethereum 11:15 - How important is the cost of hardware in blockchains 14:30 - Coinbase choosing the Optimism stack and choosing to building a L2 18:15 - The end state of L2s 21:45 - EIP-4844 28:00 - Ethereum Danksharding 33:30 - Optionality to use different settlement layers 36:45 - Decentralization sequencers for L2s 41:50 - Should consumers understand the technology stacks? 43:15 - The rapid growth of Base 47:15 - Scalability of Base 51:50 - Fraud vs. Validity Proofs 55:30 - Being Bullish on Zero Knowledge technology 58:10 - Hardest part of scaling blockchains 1:02:15 - Things Roberto is excited about