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Mark
@markodayan
The more I think about sovereign rollups the more I understand the LOGICAL arguments in favour of them. With our blockchain networks, one of our overarching goals is to build systems that are robust to complete capture by private parties (capture likely impossible to reverse if it happens). We have used cryptographic mechanisms and binding code to help achieve this goal - this is where our desires for ossifying and enshrining certain functionality derives from. But there is something extremely important to understand: The indiscriminate delivery of duties of code is in service of our goals around ensuring the resilience and robustness of these systems in maintaining decentralized control over them -- its simply one of many possible means to the ends we wish to make reality.
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Mark
@markodayan
In comprehending the significance of this, we get a bit closer to understanding what exactly the goal is and how we need to achieve it. The goal is not technical in nature, its a social one pertaining to organization of society. We therefore need to ensure we rely on more than just technology when designing these systems -- and i think sovereign rollups will play a significant role in years to come to help ingrain the nuance behind the huge overarching goal of designing decentralized systems. Throughout our history, power has been sought after and seized ruthlessly, the tactics may have changed from being done through sheer violence to the political ways we see today which are far more veiled, but we largely havn't solved how to constrain the power-hungry who impose their will on everyone. The properties we are building with our systems here are to change that and mark an important point in our history as a civilization. Never forget the higher-purpose of what created this movement.
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