On March 3rd, during the week of EthDenver, the Twitter account for Coinbase's brand new layer 2 rollup forked from Optimism and settling on Ethereum, aptly named Base to complement their $COIN IPO, tweeted a surprise bounty challenge in the style of a ctf, entirely on-chain.. I was cooking dinner with my spouse at the time but thankfully a great friend, silv.eth, alerted me to the challenge: thanks again, fren!