TechFlow news, May 27 — Dan Robinson, a researcher at Paradigm, posted on social media stating that whether sequencers are decentralized is not the most important factor. What matters is the rules they follow and whether they exploit their power to harm users or extract value. He pointed out that decentralized sequencers could still be extractive, while centralized sequencers might be non-extractive.
For Layer 2 networks, long-term censorship resistance and activity primarily stem from the underlying Layer 1 network. The properties of sequencers—including censorship resistance, transaction pool privacy, and ordering rules—are the most critical considerations. "Decentralization" alone cannot fully define the nature of a sequencer.
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