46 min

Rowan Stone (Coinbase) on Bringing Offchain Users Onchain On The Brink with Castle Island

    • Investing

In this episode, we sit down with Rowan Stone who leads Business Development at Base – the layer-2 network on Ethereum launched by Coinbase earlier this year. Rowan expands on:
The decision to build Base using Optimism's OP stack and the "Superchain" vision
The vectors of centralization in L2 networks and the path to decentralization
Early use cases on Base across DeFi, loyalty and the creator economy The role of business development in growing an L2 network

In this episode, we sit down with Rowan Stone who leads Business Development at Base – the layer-2 network on Ethereum launched by Coinbase earlier this year. Rowan expands on:
The decision to build Base using Optimism's OP stack and the "Superchain" vision
The vectors of centralization in L2 networks and the path to decentralization
Early use cases on Base across DeFi, loyalty and the creator economy The role of business development in growing an L2 network

46 min