--- tags: research, reading list --- # Decentralizing L2 Sequencer ## High level things Polynya - 04/2022: [Shower thoughts](https://twitter.com/apolynya/status/1511909951270129664?s=20) Espresso - 11/2022: [Decentralizing Rollups: Announcing the Espresso Sequencer](https://www.espressosys.com/blog/decentralizing-rollups-announcing-the-espresso-sequencer) colludingnode - 10/2022: [Leaderless Sovereign Roll-Up](https://forum.celestia.org/t/leaderless-sovereign-roll-up/420) Karl Floersch - 02/2023: [Optimism’s Path to Technical Decentralization](https://dev.optimism.io/decentralization-roadmap/?utm_source=base-website&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=base-announcement) Alex Beckett - 06/2022: [Decentralized sequencers: where do we go next?](https://www.alexbeckett.xyz/decentralized-sequencers-where-do-we-go-next/) finestone.eth - 12/2022: [Rollup Decentralization](https://mirror.xyz/labs.taiko.eth/sxR3iKyD-GvTuyI9moCg4_ggDI4E4CqnvhdwRq5yL0A) Alberto Garoffolo, Dmytro Kaidalov, Roman Oliynykov - 03/2021: [Latus Incentive Scheme: Enabling Decentralization in Blockchains based on Recursive SNARKs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13754) Fuel Labs - 01/2022: [A Token Model for Layer-2 Block Production](https://fuel-labs.ghost.io/token-model-layer-2-block-production/) barryWhiteHat - 07/2020: [Against proof of stake for [zk/op]rollup leader election](https://ethresear.ch/t/against-proof-of-stake-for-zk-op-rollup-leader-election/7698) Ye Zhang - [2022: Decentralized zk-Rollup](https://hackmd.io/@yezhang/SkmyXzWMY) Ohad Barta - 03/2022: [StarkNet Decentralization - Tendermint based suggestion](https://community.starknet.io/t/starknet-decentralization-tendermint-based-suggestion/998) David Schwartz and Jordi Baylina, Polygon Hermez - 02/2022: [Proof of Efficiency: A new consensus mechanism for zk-rollups](https://ethresear.ch/t/proof-of-efficiency-a-new-consensus-mechanism-for-zk-rollups/11988) Trustless Labs - 04/2022: [A Design of Decentralized ZK-Rollups based on EIP-4844](https://ethresear.ch/t/a-design-of-decentralized-zk-rollups-based-on-eip-4844/12434) Espresso Systems - 11/2022: [Decentralizing Rollups: Announcing the Espresso Sequencer](https://www.espressosys.com/blog/decentralizing-rollups-announcing-the-espresso-sequencer) Zachary Williamson - 02/2022: [L2’s Centralized or Censorship Resistant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU7EBP3FbNg) Evan Forbes - 01/2023: [Sharing a Sequencer Set by Separating Execution from Aggregation](https://forum.celestia.org/t/sharing-a-sequencer-set-by-separating-execution-from-aggregation/702) Ibrahim Yusufali - 11/2022: [Decentralization of ZK Rollups](https://delendum.xyz/2022/11/27/decentralization-of-zk-rollups.html) https://maven11.substack.com/p/modular-mev-part-1the-introduction#%C2%A7decentralizing-sequencers