#479: Sam McIngvale, Head of Product at OP Labs, on Moving Your Business Onchain, Optimism’s OP Stack, Why Fintechs are Coming to Optimism

Sam McIngvale is the Head of Product at OP Labs, a core development team supporting Optimism’s OP Stack. Prior to joining OP Labs, he co-founded wallet infrastructure provider Turnkey and was Head of Product for Coinbase Custody. Sam studied Computer Science at Northwestern University. 

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Optimism’s OP Stack
- Moving parts of your business onchain
- Fortune 500 companies will run their own blockchains
- The growth of Coinbase Custody
- Flashblocks
- Why exchanges and fintechs are coming to Optimism
- L1s vs L2s
- Coinbase shareholders vs BASE token … what happens?
- Providing infrastructure for stablecoins, payments
- What is Superchain

Optimism
Website: optimism.io
X: @Optimism
LinkedIn: Optimism Foundation

Sam McIngvale
X: @sammcingvale
LinkedIn: Sam M.

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