Ethereum-based layer-2 chain, which launched for developers in July and will be fully live this week, has already attracted $68 million in ETH and over $200 million in trading volumes.
Collaborating with another popular layer-2 option known as Optimism, Base is built on the Bitcoin. Little did I know that person was Olaf Carlson-Wee, and he was actually on his way up to join Coinbase as the first employee. He went on to start Polychain and do a bunch of other stuff in the industry, but that was my first education. I met him, learned about Bitcoin, and really started getting excited about crypto.
