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The Big One: Base Leaves the OP Stack Let’s get right to it. On February 18th — smack in the middle of ETHDenver — the Base team dropped a blog post titled “The Next Chapter for Base” that essentially said: thanks Optimism, it’s been real, but we’re building our own thing now. Base is migrating off the OP Stack and onto a unified, self-managed codebase called base/base. The reasoning? Faster shipping cadence, less “cognitive overload” for developers, and more control over their own infrastructure and roadmap. In practice, this means Base is consolidating the sequencer, client releases, and core components into a single repo they own and operate. ...

return nil, errors.New("blog not found") So. It’s been five years. In my first post back in 2021 I said — and I quote — “I, like many in my profession have tried to maintain a website/blog but rarely keep it updated.” Turns out that wasn’t foreshadowing, it was a threat. I wrote exactly one post, mass-deployed it to the void, and promptly ghosted my own domain like it owed me money. ...