VIDEO - Jai Prasad (Definitive): "Base is one of the fastest-growing layer 2s".

22.07.2024
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Definitive co-founder Jai Prasad has chosen to deploy his protocol on Base, the layer 2 developed by Coinbase. In a video interview, he explains his choice.

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While The Big Whale devotes its "season" this week to Base, the layer 2 developed by Coinbase, we chose to talk to Jai Prasad, co-founder of Definitive, a platform that aims to simplify access to decentralised finance (DeFi) for both institutional and retail users.

"Our aim is to ensure that our users don't even realise they're using blockchain," he explains. "To do this, we manage everything that can be difficult for the user to take care of, such as switching from one chain to another, network fees or even token swaps," he stresses.

For its first steps, Definitive has deployed on Base, a blockchain that has no plans to have a governance token. "This strategy perfectly illustrates the desire to first attract developers to launch applications," says Jai Prasad, who joined Coinbase as Crypto Product Lead between April 2020 and July 2022.

Louis Tellier

Louis Tellier is Lead Institutional Research at Blockstories, where he focuses on developing the institutional offering for digital assets. He joined Blockstories in April 2025. Blockstories was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Berlin, with presence in France and Switzerland.

Prior to joining Blockstories, Tellier worked as a crypto journalist at The Big Whale from August 2023 to January 2025, covering crypto and blockchain topics. Before that, he was a journalist at L'AGEFI from May 2022 to July 2023, specialising in cryptocurrencies. Earlier in his career, he worked as a web and video journalist at BFM Business and as a video journalist at Le Figaro. He also taught journalism at IICP in Paris for three and a half years, with a focus on web video journalism. Tellier is a graduate of Sciences Po Grenoble and the University of Lille.

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