Becoming Based

Rollups can adopt a pragmatic, incremental, three-phase approach to decentralisation, improving sequencer resilience and performance at each step. This is especially important for large-scale rollup operators managing large-scale ecosystems with vast TVL and user bases, as it offers tangible incentives to adopt based sequencing while mitigating the risks of a major systemic overhaul.

This article provides a practical roadmap for rollups currently operating a centralised sequencer at scale to progressively transition into based rollups. To demonstrate how this transition can be achieved, the article first outlines a design for based sequencing, followed by an explanation of how parts of the design can be gradually adopted to enable the transition.