The Ledger

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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 …”
Jesse Pollak Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 5:56 Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator
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Pollak: Entrepreneurs are launching native fiat stablecoins across emerging markets
“Now alongside the dollar stable coins, you actually have entrepreneurs in all those countries who are creating stable coins for their currencies. So you have a Brazilian real currency. You have a Nigerian Naira currency. You have an Indonesia rupee currency. Y…”
Jesse Pollak Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 17:06 Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator
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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…”
Jesse Pollak Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 30:24 Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator
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Pollak: Every post and creator on Base app is a coin
“On the base app, it's a new social product where every single post that you make is a coin and every single creator is a coin.”
Jesse Pollak Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 33:02 Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator
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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…”
Jesse Pollak Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 3:37 Why Now Is The Best Time To Build In Crypto · Y Combinator
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