So what is Base’s value prop again? Why couldn’t they adopt and support an existing open source effort like Optimism directly?

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we are adopting and supporting Optimism - we're building on the OP Stack and contributing back to retroactive public goods funding. we've done the whole thing in a deep collaboration with their team.

the key thing we're focused on is making it easy to onboard the next million devs and billion users.

In general, the more the rollups, the better
A lot of the scalability does come from the fact that we can have multiple of these