Optimism Base Superchain 🔵_🔴 with Ben Jones, Karl Floersch, & Jing Wang

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 

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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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