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NEW EP: Why Based Rollups Are Ethereum's Best Bet with Sam Battenally We are entering Ethereum's based era of scaling. For today's pod, & Wayne Sim had sam.rx, CEO of on to discuss the current state of Ethereum, the significance of based rollups in scaling the network, high performance...

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