Let's talk about JPM's blockchain timeline

2016: Built Quorum with Consensys

2020: Onyx launch for internal fintech use cases

2021: Interbank payments

2025: Public stablecoin

If you just woke up thinking the banks have come, then you missed that they have already been here

Here was the problem.

JPM wanted to own the blockchain, so they started by building out a private financial enterprise chain. This doesn't work from a cost and scalability perspective -- an expensive lesson for all involved. Quorum was sold back to Consensys to maintain. Consensys pivoted to MetaMask and public chains shortly after.

Then JPM wanted to own all the financial venues on top of the chain. So Onyx/Kinexys was born to build software on top of Quorum to own flows. That's fine, but it doesn't connect to Web3 and therefore is just the same as what JPM was doing on databases. They are already trusted internally, blockchains are best where you want no trust assumptions.

Now, they are doing a deposit token on Base. Is Base better than Ethereum? Is it better than Quorum?

No.

Just go direct. Stop flirting and either deploy and own your L2 with your own apps and clients, like Coinbase, or deploy to Ethereum and let people build on you.