Kraken's 'Ink' - the Newest L2 in the Optimism Superchain | Ben Jones & Andrew Koller

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Optimism’s Ben Jones and Kraken’s Andrew Koller join us today to talk about Kraken’s latest release. Kraken is launching Ink, a blockchain built on the OP Stack, joining the Superchain to scale Ethereum. Ink offers 1-second block times and connects users to top DeFi applications while contributing to a unified ecosystem.

Kraken will share revenue with the Optimism Collective and participate in OP Governance, alongside major players like Coinbase and Uniswap. Ink’s mainnet is set to launch in early 2025, focusing on onchain wealth management and developer engagement.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
5:43 Ink Explained
10:23 What Happens on Ink?
12:52 Technicalities of Ink
14:00 Kraken x Ink Synergy & Goals
16:15 Why Superchain?
17:36 Ink Roadmap
19:08 Scaling Ink
24:41 Wen Superchain Promise
33:19 Superchain 2025 Forcast
37:36 Kraken BTC x Ink
38:38 $INK
39:35 Superchain Economics
48:28 What’s Next?
51:30 Closing & Disclaimers

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RESOURCES

Ink

http://inkonchain.com

Kraken
https://x.com/krakenfx

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bankless where today we explore the frontier of the
0:07.0	Krakan Layer 2. Ladies and gentlemen, Krakan is going on chain. There's a big
0:12.4	announcement today. It's just's a big announcement today.
0:13.5	It's just breaking.
0:14.6	A couple of weeks ago, we talked about the Unichain,
0:17.8	which is joining the optimism, Super Chain.
0:19.8	Well, now Krakan is announcing the launch of Inc, which is its on chain
0:25.6	Cracken experience. It is a layer 2. It's in the optimism,
0:30.0	super chain, and it's very exciting. we got all the details today.
0:33.2	David I just got to say I'm super excited about this.
0:36.2	You know there had been rumor that Krakan was going to launch a layer two for a while.
0:39.9	We'd been like you know prodding our folks at Krakan the people we know just be like, hey, you got any news, got any news?
0:46.4	Apparently, we knew it was coming. We just didn't know when or how. We did.
0:50.0	We did. It was inevitable. Well, I was hoping it would be cool is what
0:54.0	I would say you know and this exceeds my expectations I think they've got a
0:57.6	fantastic approach for it and I'm very excited about their you know what
1:02.2	they're what they're building what they're architecting, and some of the dates around this.
1:06.0	You know, I think this actually marks with the advent of ink, Crockins, Layer 2.
1:10.0	There's extremely few large centralized exchanges or even medium-sized
1:15.2	centralized exchanges left that do not have an associated blockchain. Of course,
1:19.8	BINANS has B&B, coin base has, Cracken now has ink, okay X has a chain, Kronos has the ZK
1:28.6	sync chain. Kronos is the crypto.com one.
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