https://stevedylan.dev/posts/base-may-not-be-for-me

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fair take, thanks for writing it up! here's my unsolicited 2c

while i agree that zero sum games (and in the case of coins maybe even negative sum) are may not be the cleanest way to approach growth, i don't think embracing narratives necessarily breaks credible neutrality

but even when it comes to credible neutrality, something we've seen from solana is that it is attractive to builders when they can feel that they have the platform they're building on on their side!

i think it's fair for an L2 – especially one that's heavily consumer focused – to be more aggressive and opinionated in surfacing things in the ecosystem. i would go as far as to say being built on a solid, unwaveringly credibly neutral base layer like ethereum *should* give L2s the freedom to make trade offs like this when it comes to marketing