I think base acquiring merkle is inevitable.  

Merkle’s recent push to align themselves even harder with ethereum/evm ecosystem is further hint of this.

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you build on base 

get initial distribution with farcaster 

get it to the public via coinbase 

$1B may look cheap in retrospect. 

If ethereum is worth $400B, what is its #1 L2 worth? 

And what is it’s most powerful distribution mechanism worth?

coinbase can fund it. 

this is a long term play.

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coinbase can fund it. 

this is a long term play.

https://warpcast.com/czar/0xf57de613

scale of the deal is an issue 

plus i don’t think base’s financial plays out for this

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Doesn’t really make sense.

Aqui-hire the team of <30 people at MM?  It will cost you >$1B and that’s assuming D/V want to sell (doubt it).