Take a look at this breakdown – it's actually pretty amusing when you really examine what's happening.
See that dotted line sitting right at the 1 mark? That's showing the total number of sequencers managing your Layer 2 holdings. Yeah, just one. Single point of failure managing the whole operation.
This raises some interesting questions about what decentralization actually means in the current L2 landscape. When sequencer operations stay that consolidated, it sort of defeats the original purpose, doesn't it? Your assets are technically on chain, but the throughput and transaction ordering? That's all flowing through a bottleneck.
The irony is pretty thick here. Users migrate to L2 solutions thinking they're getting scalability benefits, but if the sequencer infrastructure remains this centralized, you're trading off decentralization for speed. Worth thinking about before you stack your bags on a single sequencer system.
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GweiTooHigh
· 6h ago
One sequencer can control the entire scene? Isn't that just centralized control with a different disguise? LOL
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not_your_keys
· 6h ago
ngl this is a joke... The single sequencer still dares to call itself L2?
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RektRecorder
· 6h ago
NGL, this is a joke. One sequencer supports the entire L2 ecosystem, and it still dares to call itself decentralized.
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TradFiRefugee
· 6h ago
A single sequencer dares to claim decentralization? Laughable. That's why I dislike L2.
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PhantomHunter
· 6h ago
Laughing out loud, one sequencer supports the entire L2, this is what we call decentralization haha
Take a look at this breakdown – it's actually pretty amusing when you really examine what's happening.
See that dotted line sitting right at the 1 mark? That's showing the total number of sequencers managing your Layer 2 holdings. Yeah, just one. Single point of failure managing the whole operation.
This raises some interesting questions about what decentralization actually means in the current L2 landscape. When sequencer operations stay that consolidated, it sort of defeats the original purpose, doesn't it? Your assets are technically on chain, but the throughput and transaction ordering? That's all flowing through a bottleneck.
The irony is pretty thick here. Users migrate to L2 solutions thinking they're getting scalability benefits, but if the sequencer infrastructure remains this centralized, you're trading off decentralization for speed. Worth thinking about before you stack your bags on a single sequencer system.