Ethereum

4844 is really insane. 

Just minted an NFT on Base for a fee of $0.0009 USD. This is an *order of magnitude* cheaper than Stripe’s “competitive” rate of 3.25% + 20p per transaction.

It’s getting harder to imagine a future where L2s aren’t pushing aside the trad payment processors.

Honestly the crypto as a payment processor for e-commerce narrative is pretty underrated. Probably the way we get widespread adoption is when all commerce is e-commerce. Then you won’t even need off-ramps.

Apparently Visa is running a stablecoin pilot on Solana, but I doubt they'll be able to position themselves to continue leading amid this shift

Opens up possibilities, and infrastructure product opportunities to move away from these expensive and risky web2 services like stripe

which can also be blocked for no explanation along with your bank accounts