why would base be excited about a defi-centric l2 competitor

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when? but even if, wouldn't you want all the most used defi stuff to be on your l2 and not someone else's

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Not sure it's a competitor for Base, assuming they can solve the liquidity fragmentation and cross-L2 secure messaging issues. If everything goes to plan it seems the growth of Unichain would just basically mean more liquidity for Base users, more OP stack development and tooling Base can use, and more strength for superchain against other L2 networks. But I think it remains to be seen if solving those problems is as easy as they're making it sound right now.

even so, wouldn’t they still want defi to be on base?