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Inside DeFi 005: 🌪️ Base shuns Optimism, Discord’s KYC disaster
Base leaves Optimism, DeFi projects shut down, plus Discord spyware, and AI meets DeFi
Base leaves Optimism, DeFi projects shut down, plus Discord spyware, and AI meets DeFi
Coinbase Head of Protocol Jesse Pollak claimed Base will never “support the chart behind the scenes” in response to calls for more support.
The competition between Base and Solana passed a tipping point this week after Base announced its intention to launch a proprietary token.
Of the last 50 tokens launched by Jesse Pollack on Base, 40% have seen their market cap fall by at least 90%, and only three have increased.
“Unsafe head delay” has been blamed for the Coinbase Base downtime, according to its status page. Four components had a major outage today.