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Sep 16

Rollup Stages

A Layer 2 (L2) chains maturity is evaluated based on specific properties and categorized into stages. The L2B team provides an opinionated assessment to encourage a progression towards a greater decentralization.Rollup StagesStage 0: In this initial stage, the rollup's governance is largely in the hands of the operators and a security council, ensuring that critical decisions and actions are overseen by a trusted group. The open-source software allows for the reconstruction of the state ...

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Sep 16

Traditional Networks vs Blockchain

Traditionally, when you run an application be it a website or something that connects to a server you are interacting with a centralized entity. This is the opposite of what you may recall from our distributed blockchain example, in that the server is controlled and run by a single centralized group. Blockchains, as we saw, run on a network of independent nodes. In our previous example, each of the Peers was representative of an independent node operator. The term node typically refers to a s...

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Sep 16

Blockchain and Smart Contracts

Bitcoin and BlockchainYou might be familiar with Bitcoin, which is one of the first protocols to utilize the revolutionary blockchain technology. The Bitcoin Whitepaper, authored by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, described how Bitcoin could facilitate peer-to-peer transactions within a decentralized network using cryptography. This gave rise to censorship-resistant finance and presented Bitcoin as a superior digital store of value, often referred to as digital gold. There is a fixed amoun...