Rollups promised scale without throwing away Ethereum’s security. Then came the awkward bit: most of them still relied on one sequencer to decide who gets in next. Based rollups are the pushback to that.
Here’s the idea in plain terms. Instead of trusting an L2-run server to order your transaction, you let Ethereum’s own block proposers do it. The base layer sets the order. The rollup derives its chain from that order. No central sequencer in the middle.
That sounds tidy. In practice, it shifts power, latency, and MEV in new ways. Let’s unpack how it works, what you gain, where the rough edges are, and what we learned from Taiko’s bumpy but informative summer.
Point
Details
Who sequences
Ethereum L1 proposers order L2 batches; the rollup follows that order to build its L2 blocks.
Main upside
Removes a single L2 sequencer as a censorship or liveness bottleneck; inherits Ethereum’s proposer set.
MEV shift
Value extraction moves toward L1 builders/proposers and re
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