# Soft finality generally 

By [Vena Schultz](https://paragraph.com/@vena-schultz) · 2022-12-06

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Soft finality generally means that you have to trust that Sequencer will keep its promise and record transactions in a particular order (until a batch is posted on L1, i.e. hard finality)

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*Originally published on [Vena Schultz](https://paragraph.com/@vena-schultz/soft-finality-generally)*