Optimism may create a second layer history here.

They are testing paid priority access for transactions.
Today, every transaction competes in a priority gas auction.
Pay more to get in earlier.
The problem optimism wants to solve is that this will lead to spam transactions and gas wars, where traders and market makers cannot demonstrate commitment outside of gas prices.
However, this will probably greatly incentivize “sandwich attackers” (MEV bots ) to collateralize. Pretty clever.
So you can stake 100k OP ($13k USD ) and gain access to the top of the block.
- No lock-up period
- Immediate unstaking
- Time multiplier prevents quick borrowing of OP to front-run liquidations; you need to hold for more than 15 days to get the full bonus
The first phase is first-come, first-served.
In the second phase, your collateral size, lock-up duration, and priority gas form a single ranking score.
This is very likely to become the first second layer token utility to surpass fee revenue ( and these second layers themselves also have no ).
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I’m wondering: will this eventually become centralized for sequencers? Because collateralized sequencers are better than others.
Anyway, after Base leaves the OP Stack, decentralization will become a luxury. It was once a great success, so $OP needs a real utility narrative, and collateralization is one of them.
It’s still on testnet, but I welcome innovations in tokenomics — this area has long been lacking.
It seems that tough times have finally driven this kind of innovation. #GatePreIPOs首发SpaceX