Base

“It's the most popular layer two on top of Ethereum now, and it's, people are using it for all kinds of apps to be built, and payment stable coins, and trading, and AI agents, like agentic commerce is happening on there.”

“And we, we've made it through stage zero, stage one. We're partly, partly through the final stage of stage two. And to do that, we've explored issuing a base token and there's a path to potentially decentralizing it over time on that route.”

“Yeah, like in, on the base chain, at least it's about a 10th of a cent US.”

“Actually the base chain, we have this program called base grants, and we've given like 10,000 dollar grants to a bunch of different developers in India. And a lot of them, we actually fly them out to Silicon Valley and they do a session where they get mentorsh…”

“There's also people working on private transactions on, on base including us, for instance. So hopefully we'll be able to launch the first private transactions on base soon as well.”

“There's about a 150 startups, I think, that have come out of, in India, building on top of base.”