Bit of a blackpill that Coinbase has no economic incentive to decentralize their sequencer

Or am I incorrect in this premise? Max Resnick tweets are blackpilling me. In general why would Coinbase ever make any decision re Base that is not in the interest of shareholders?

There's lots of other reasons (eg. agreements with Optimism for being part of the OP Stack ecosystem) but an underrated force is regulatory liability. Centralized/custodial providers are treated much more aggressively and win cases against them.

If regulators start winning cases against decentralized providers, maybe the story will be different.

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

Currently: WhatsABI

Yeah I think I underrated the whole regulatory part of it, that seems to be a recurring answer