Building Base with Coinbase's Distinguished Engineer Roberto Bayardo | EP #99

Roberto Bayardo is a Distinguished Engineer spearheading Base Coinbase's L2

Roberto's Twitter: @roberto_bayardo
Base's Twitter: https://twitter.com/BuildOnBase
Base's Website: https://base.org/

Logan Jastremski's Twitter: @LoganJastremski
Frictionless's Twitter: @_Frictionless_
Frictionless's Website: ⁠https://frictionless.fund/⁠
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
1:06 - Thank you to Coinbase
3:25 - Roberto's Background
6:00 - Why Coinbase choose to build on Ethereum
11:15 - How important is the cost of hardware in blockchains
14:30 - Coinbase choosing the Optimism stack and choosing to building a L2
18:15 - The end state of L2s
21:45 - EIP-4844
28:00 - Ethereum Danksharding
33:30 - Optionality to use different settlement layers
36:45 - Decentralization sequencers for L2s
41:50 - Should consumers understand the technology stacks?
43:15 - The rapid growth of Base
47:15 - Scalability of Base
51:50 - Fraud vs. Validity Proofs
55:30 - Being Bullish on Zero Knowledge technology
58:10 - Hardest part of scaling blockchains
1:02:15 - Things Roberto is excited about