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A lot of great stories to start the day.

We're going to talk about Coinbase, which is moving forward with base.

It's Layer 2 proposal built on top of the Opimism OP stack.

Base is a new way to build on chain.

Coinbase is pushing forward with this idea of on-chain

summer, bringing in huge brands like Coca-Cola, Atari, and other groups like OpenC,

in order to build more applications on-chain. They first launched this in July for developers,

are now opening up to the public this month. I've already seen a few different things happening with

base, notably the bald token, a meme coin, which took off just last week and developed into

a $100 million market cap token in short order and then quickly fell apart. A lot of development

for this story. Zach, I'm going to throw it to you, first of all, talk about bald,

base, and a lot of everything's happening with the optimism stack. Wow, there's so much to go on here. First of all, yeah, optimism looking pretty good in terms of the scaling solutions

out there, racking up some key wins of which base is a good one. Bald, we talked about yesterday

and the potential Alameda-linked shenanigans that some breadcrumbs

on chain suggest could be at play. And yeah, on chain summer, man. I mean, that's a bit aspirational

for sure. But I think L2s and roll-ups are very much part of the conversation right now in the

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