After WWII, Japan’s economy was shattered with the dissolution of the zaibatsu (family-controlled monopolies). Keiretsus (clusters of independently managed firms) solved this by creating interconnected business networks with shared economies, resources, and governance.

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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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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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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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Two months ago, our team decided to run an experiment by launching an L3 for Farcaster Frame developers. It was one of the world's first modular L3s using the OP Stack, Base for settlement, and Celestia for data availability.

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Before pushing into the world of L3s, our team at Syndicate has been building infrastructure since 2021 for developers and onchain communities ranging from .SWOOSH to FWB to more easily and scalably build mainstream-scale applications on L1s and L2s.

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