Base
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Pollak: Base and Solana transaction fees dropped to fractions of a cent
“And the thing that has shifted over the last few years is that those costs have come massively down. And whether that's with base or Solana, we actually have this scaling that's happening where now you can build those applications and instead of it costing fiv…”
Pollak: Base Compresses Transactions to Ethereum to Slash Costs 1,000%
“So what base does is you can kind of think about it like an HOV lane. We sit on top of Ethereum. We take millions and millions of transactions. We compress them and we publish them to Ethereum. And that means that when we're compressing them, we can get a ton …”
Pollak: Building an AMM interface is an ideal crypto 'Hello World'
“Building an interface that lets you interact with a swap like an AMM or an exchange, right? So one of the really powerful things that crypto enables enables you to seamlessly swap between assets. You can swap between Ethereum and a stable coin or between multi…”
Base issues request for startups building local-currency stablecoins
“And we actually just put out a request for builders for base where it's like, we want to talk to entrepreneurs in every single country in the world who are doing that work because it's so, so important and we want to support them and help them be successful.”
Pollak: Coinbase and Shopify condensed payment systems into 1,000-line smart contract
“And what we did over a nine month period was exactly that. We went into their systems, which are literally millions of lines of code where they're doing things like escrow they're taking taxes they're doing, you know, fees, tariffs they're doing refunds, charg…”
Pollak: Decentralization is essential at the base layer, not entire stack
“The place where decentralization is really, really important is at the very bottom of the stack, right? You need decentralization at the Ethereum layer, at base, because what that enables is it enables this global platform that everyone can come and participat…”
Pollak: Programmable, Global Asset Tokenization Will Create Massive Value
“I think we can all imagine that if you take all the assets that exist, and then you put them into a platform where they can be programmable, they can move instantly, they can move basically for free, they can be accessible to anyone globally in the world, that…”
Pollak: Developers Are Bringing Stocks, Bonds, and Debt Onto Base
“And that's what we're seeing every day on base right now. It's like people are bringing stock, they're bringing bonds, they're bringing more stable coins, like I talked about earlier, they're Actually, you know, bringing collateralized debt positions. Like, ev…”
Pollak: Content and creator capital markets will become a major asset class
“I think one of the biggest asset classes that we believe is about to emerge is content and creators and Creator capital markets where for the first time you're going to have creators that start to say, Hey, I want to use this new platform to raise capital for …”