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Is a Rollup Just a Multisig?
No, it is a small (and important) part of a larger system architecture
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Patrick McCorry

September 2023

Enablement of MEV and the Morals of Extracting
What enables MEV? Should we be concerned? Or excited by MEV?
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Patrick McCorry
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August 2023

July 2023

Bridging Databases (Part 2)
A world of databases interconnected by bridges
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Patrick McCorry

June 2023

Blockchain as a Database (Part 1)
Rollup != Bridge?
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Patrick McCorry
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March 2023

Why Did I Join the Arbitrum Foundation?
I have spent most of my adult life happily immersed in the field of crypto and specifically off-chain scalability, but my days as an independent are up.
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Patrick McCorry
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Deconstructing Rollups
What really defines the rollup? The community or a validating bridge?
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Patrick McCorry
Settlement Layers? Ethereum Rollups? Sovereign Rollups?
Is a Sovereign Rollup just a fancy word for a Velvet Fork? Or can it form the basis for a new settlement layer?
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Patrick McCorry
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SHARP? SuperChain? Layer-3s? Temporary Rollups? AHHHHHH
Will rollups be deployed as silos? Or form part of a larger SuperSHARP Chain?
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Patrick McCorry
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February 2023

Tiers of Transaction Finality for Rollups
When does a transaction become final and irreversible?
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Patrick McCorry
Where Is the One Honest Party for a Rollup?
Is it a Sequencer? An executor? What problems arise?
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Patrick McCorry
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What Does It Mean to Decentralise a Rollup?
Are we seeking an honest majority? or upholding a single honest party?
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Patrick McCorry
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