When you look at the history of crypto, I think it started as a historically speculative thing.

Even in the last kind of five years of smart contracts and building on chain, that was predominantly

financial. But I think in this current wave that's happening right now, we're starting to see people

build social. We're starting to see people build real games. We're starting to see people do things

with food and music and

art and media on chain. I think that energy, that's the energy that's going to actually be

able to bring millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions and billions of people

on chain.

It's Tuesday, July 16th, and this is Markets Daily, a show where we get into the minds of some of the most experienced and smartest, investors, CEOs, analysts, researchers, and anyone with a hot or smart take on the markets.

Joining today's show is the creator of base, Coinbase's layer two blockchain, Jesse Pollack. Jesse, welcome back.

Thanks for having me on, Jen. Super excited to be here. All right, first of all, Coinbase's layer 2 blockchain, Jesse Paulick. Jesse, welcome back. Thanks for having me on. Jen, super excited to be here.

All right, first of all, congratulations on that honeymoon.

I know you were offline for a little bit.

That sounds lovely.

Thank you. It was great.

It was hard to get away from all of the incredible excitement on chain right now,

but we have to do it. It was awesome.

Yeah, you got to go off chain when you're having your honeymoon. Come on.

All right. We have some news to unpack today. That's really exciting. But it's not every day

we have you on the show. So I just want to get a quick update. There's so many things going on in the

base ecosystem. Tell me about some of the

things that you're most excited about as we head into the latter part of the year. Yeah, so we are in

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