Until decentralized, what will Base do in the event of a sanctioned entity interacting with Base? Yes, forced inclusions exist at the L1, but withdrawals do not work the same way, so for that specific path, what's the response?

Jesse Pollak 🔵

Shoutout to Cassie - it's important to have people who stand up and ask “When is it going to be decentralized” and “Why is it not good enough right now?” So to get to those two questions - first, Base is open and permissionless. We spent 9 months creating the Law of Chains, a neutrality framework that we constructed with Optimism to specifically ensure block space is neutral and has the same characteristics as Ethereum. On the second question, it's true that there are today limitations in the technology where there are single points of control that could be coerced. In the early stage of decentralization that we're in, we would (if necessary) go to court and fight to make sure those points aren't coerced and Base stays decentralized. Our P0 as a team has been eliminating those points of control as quickly as humanly possible, and we're now within months of doing that. We're not perfect, but it's the best we've been able to do thus far and its going to continue getting better and better.