Solana and Base Clash Over New ‘Bidirectional’ Bridge

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko struck at the core of Coinbase’s Base expansion strategy this weekend, dismissing the Ethereum layer-2 network’s new bridge as an “alignment bullshit. ” In a sharp rebuke of Base lead Jesse Pollak, Yakovenko argued that cross-chain bridges are rarely neutral infrastructure. He said they act as vectors for value capture, deciding where fees settle and which ecosystem benefits. Solana Rejects Base’s ‘Alignment’ Message Yakovenko contended that Base applications must migrate their computation to Solana so that transaction fees and economic activity accrue to Solana validators source: https://beincrypto.com/solana-and-base-clash-over-new-bridge/