@moya17
By early 2023, the Layer 2 chains that were actually live and open for real users were mainly Optimism, Arbitrum, zkSync, Polygon, and Starknet.
Scroll, Linea, and Mantle already letting developers test on their upcoming networks.
@coinbase had spent months testing all of them in private.
June 28 2023, Coinbase posted a simple blog with a few charts comparing different Layer 2 chains.
It actually told everyone that Coinbase had already built its own chain,
@base.base.eth, and it was already the cheapest and most used one on the list.
Word spreads fast: “Coinbase already shipped it and nobody noticed”
Some builders had been using it for weeks without knowing it would become Base.
Six weeks later @friendtech.eth launched straight there, the numbers made the decision obvious.
It was about taking what already worked, making it cheaper and simpler, putting it inside the app that hundreds of millions of people already open every day, and fixing the hard stuff later.
Sometimes the quiet truth is the loudest signal of all :)
@baseapp.base.eth @jesse.base.eth @baseposters.base.eth
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