Why I'm Starting with Base (And What Comes After)

The decision that forced everything else was the Solana week. Once I knew there would be a non-EVM chain mid-series — a week using Rust and Anchor instead of Solidity and Foundry — a dozen downstream decisions snapped into place. What frontend framework to use. How to handle wallet connectors. Which hosting platform made sense for weekly chain swaps. Almost nothing about the technical stack was chosen independently of the chain lineup. So let's start with the chains. Why Base for Week 1 Week 1 is Base. It's the only locked decision in the series. Base is an Ethereum L2 mid-transition. In February 2026, Coinbase announced it's migrating away from the Optimism OP Stack toward its own unified in-house codebase — consolidating infrastructure under one roof while keeping the protocol open source and EVM-equivalent. The architecture is moving. The developer surface isn't: Foundry works out of the box, wagmi has a built-in base chain import, Basescan works like Etherscan. No custom compiler,