# Shared sequencing Notes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4yp6WkPc5k - L1 will only be verifying the ZK proof and fraud proofs - L2 will be doing heavy stuff - but in this the idea of ethereum which is smart contracts talking to each other is getting ruined - so we are acheving more power but at the cost of a different dream - L1 provides ordering, DA etc. ![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Bk5LZSyea.png) - having a layer 1.5 which is only involved in shared sequencing ![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SJufMHyxa.png) - there is always a proposer, proposer is the leader who finalizes the ordering of the txn - the decentralization of blockchains breaks the monopoly of the proposers - prposer is a monopoly fro one slot becoz of extreme decentralization -![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SyMBVWlxT.png) - on zk sync the independant sequencer/consensys mech might reject and optimism it might accept it - builder will loose then their stake that they have promised to the user -