# 1 Billion Users Onchain | Jesse Pollak of Base

*Author: Ryan Sean Adams, David Hoffman*
*Published: May 2, 2024*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/es/1-billion-users-onchain-jesse-pollak-of-base*

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While it's still early in the race, Base is now one of Ethereum’s largest L2s. 

In today’s episode, we brought back on repeat guest and co-creator of Coinbase’s L2, Base, Jesse Pollak. 

We cover:

- How Base plans to bring billions of users onchain

- How Base is increasing its scale by 400x

- How Coinbase is using Base to be more onchain 

- Onchain Summer II

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## TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro

4:41 Base’s First 8 Months

9:23 The Road to 1 Giga Gas Per Second

18:39 Why More Demand For Base? 

21:26 Cost to Send Transactions on Base

23:59 Non-Ethereum DA Solution?

25:59 Scaling Via L3s on Base?

27:17 Parallelization Solution?

29:34 Will Base Make Transactions Free?

38:18 Coinbase's Relationship With Base 

46:18 Base Is Centralized Critique 

50:17 The Base Flywheel

57:46 Onchain Summer II 

58:36 Next Target Demo to Come Onchain

1:00:42 Base Independence

1:02:19 1 Billion People Onchain

1:03:25 Closing & Disclosures

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## RESOURCES

Onchain Summer II

https://www.base.org/ 

Jesse Pollak

https://twitter.com/jessepollak 

Jesse’s 1st Base Episode

https://youtu.be/7dGU0_eEjq8 

Coinbase

https://twitter.com/coinbase 

Base

https://twitter.com/base