Rollups Aren't Real - by Jon Charbonneau - Jon’s Newsletter

Decentralizing, Shared Sequencers, X-Chain Atomicity, SUAVE, & MEV

Rollups Aren't Real Decentralizing, Shared Sequencers, X-Chain Atomicity, SUAVE, & MEV Jon Charbonneau Mar 19, 2023 65 2 Share Introduction Kelvin thinks that ZK rollups aren’t real , but I don’t think that any “rollups” are real, at least not yet. So, how do we make them real rollups? Today’s rollups are mostly trusted and permissioned: Source: L2 Beat I’ll provide an overview of the landscape for: Forced Transaction Inclusion Mechanisms - Even if the rollup operator is censoring users, they should be able to force inclusion of their transactions to preserve censorship resistance. L2 Sequence

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