Andre Cronje, co-founder of Sonic Labs (a blockchain competitor to Base), questioned how Base as a Layer 2 could be considered 'Ethereum aligned' when the fees generated were not kept on-chain for the benefit of the network or its users
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On February 10, 2025, Andre Cronje, co-founder of Sonic Labs, criticized Base for transferring sequencer fees to Coinbase instead of keeping them on-chain, arguing this contradicted Ethereum’s decentralization principles
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