Introducing Adrift: Syndicate’s First Gaming Appchain
Adrift is the first game and gaming appchain released by Syndicate, and a live demonstration of what programmable onchain sequencing makes possible.
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Invitation to Build a Community-Owned Internet With Us
Today, Syndicate is launching its official community channels on Telegram and Farcaster—and inviting developers and users to help shape the development of a new community-owned internet.
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Research Piece: Mutual Funds
Too often, sequencers operate under extractive, fee-based models. Mutual ownership offers a better path—where shared responsibility, value circulation, and aligned incentives strengthen the system and serve the community.
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Research Piece: Mountain Clubs
Mountain Clubs maintained remote trails and huts through volunteer labor, membership fees, and shared governance—an early model of community-owned infrastructure.
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Research Piece: Keiretsus
Interdependent projects today can learn from the advantages and disadvantages of keiretsus to more effectively manage mutually owned infrastructure.
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Research Piece: Electric Cooperatives
In 1929, just 13% of rural homes had electricity. By 1944, it was 94%. How? "Electric cooperatives" owned the infrastructure they built. But today, blockchains with programmable sequencers can make any piece of infrastructure community owned and controlled.
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Alchemy and Syndicate Join Forces to Scale Ethereum Through Community-Owned Rollups
Today we’re excited to announce that Alchemy and Syndicate are joining forces to scale Ethereum through community-owned rollups.
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Announcing Syndicate Chain—And The Path to a Community Owned Internet
Today, we're excited to announce the development of Syndicate Chain to horizontally scale Ethereum and build a community-owned internet. Syndicate Chain enables developers to build horizontally scalable, atomically composable, community-owned rollups on top of it.
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Metabased Progressive Decentralization
Metabased rollups and their smart contract sequencers provide networks with a unique technical foundation that is able to support the full spectrum of decentralization models—from centralized to fully decentralized approaches and everything in between.
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Metabased Economic Mechanisms
This article explores economic mechanisms that might be implemented using metabased rollups, showcasing their potential to revolutionize how networks create, manage, and distribute value within communities.
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Metabased Rollups: Decentralized L3s With New Economic Opportunities and Network Effects
Today, we’re sharing our development of a powerful type of rollup we call “metabased” and a new community-led initiative with the same name.
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The Hard Problem with Decentralizing L3s: Decentralizing the Sequencer
In our last post, we outlined the economic challenges that L3s face today to drive sufficient sequencer revenue. Unfortunately, it’s infeasible for most L3s today to break even.
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The Economics of L3s
As discussed in our last post, L3s face real challenges related to economic sustainability. While Base generated over $30 million in sequencer revenue in the first quarter of 2024 alone, what’s working for a small number of L2s like Base, Arbitrum, OP Mainnet, and Polygon won’t also work for L3s.
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The Opportunities and Challenges of L3s
As the Ethereum ecosystem evolves, L3s have emerged as the next frontier. While the conversation today on L3s tends to focus on scaling, L3s represent an important leap forward toward unparalleled community-centric customization, architectures, and economic models.
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How Airstack and Syndicate Are Helping Accelerate the Adoption of L3s
As L3 development accelerates, communities are looking for strong technical partners to enable them to build chains that align with their goals. Over the last 6 months, Airstack and Syndicate have been partnering deeply across the L3 ecosystem.
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