First there were smart contracts. Then smart wallets. Now, Syndicate is making networks themselves programmable with Smart Rollups with Smart Sequencers—enabling developers and their tokenized communities to verifiably own, control, and evolve their networks through code.
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Today, a handful of companies own the platforms we depend on. They set the rules. They take the value. We just log in. A community-owned internet flips that—builders and users govern, keep the value they create, and control the infrastructure and economics.
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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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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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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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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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Interdependent projects today can learn from the advantages and disadvantages of keiretsus to more effectively manage mutually owned infrastructure.
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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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Today we’re excited to announce that Alchemy and Syndicate are joining forces to scale Ethereum through community-owned rollups.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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