Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, February 23, I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Coinbase has launched Base, a layer 2 network using optimism's O.P.

Stack offering access to Ethereum, Salana, and others.

Not sure what that means.

Well, let me explain.

This is them incubating their own layer two network,

even though they're not getting into the token issuing game

themselves in a way, they're just trying to make a neutral decentralized crypto.

This is a play to seed a web 3 ecosystem.

Quoting coin desk.

Coinbase is joining optimism as a core developer on the open source

OP stack a developer toolkit for the optimism network the firm said however

base will not be limited to ethereal it will also provide easy and secure access to layer two networks such as optimism,

as well as other blockchain ecosystems like Salana.

Today we're excited to announce the TestNet launch of Base in Ethereum layer layer 2 network offering a secure low-cost

developer friendly way for anyone anywhere to build decentralized apps or daps on

chain will Robinson vice president of engineering at CoinBaste, told Coin Desk.

We're incubating base inside of Coinbase, leveraging the last decade of our experience

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