It's a big week. We've got plenty of bonus content for you. Today, David, we're going to

talk about optimism, base, the super chain, all of these concepts. This is based on news

from yesterday that Coinbase is releasing a layer 2 chain called base. That chain is

now in testnet. It's going to go to production, what in the next couple of months, I say weeks

a month. Now, yesterday, we spent some time with Jesse. We got the Coinbase reaction to

this and the news this time. Who do we have on and what are we going to talk about, David?

We are bringing on the three co-founders of optimism, Carl, Jing and Ben. We got a lot of questions

for them. We got the news yesterday, like you said, about the Coinbase side of things,

why they want to build base. What does it mean for Coinbase to have their own layer 2?

I think people still have a lot of questions for what this means on the optimism side of things.

What does it mean to be building on the OP stack? Coinbase isn't building base on optimism.

They're building on the OP stack. What are the differences between these two things? What

is this super chain vision? Where are we in this super chain vision? What does that mean

for the world? Really, what are all the other implications between this optimism, Coinbase

collaboration? Jesse and Coinbase are now the second core development team of the OP stack.

What are the implications of that? I think people are still learning how to wrap their heads

around this, myself included. I've got a bunch of questions and we've got the optimism

team on the show today to go directly to the source.

I'm super excited for this episode. The triad of optimism co-founders is always so enthusiastic

and so love catching up with news.

If you will. Yes, so optimistic. I should have used that word.

And disclosure before we get in, David and I do disclosures at the beginning of every

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