“The token will be required once you want to decentralize the sequencer,” he said. “In order to have permissionless participation in the validator set, we don’t have anything better than a token right now — like how you make it permissionless. But for now, since we are on this sequencer, it’s not yet necessary.” (As of press time the Matter Labs team had not confirmed the quote to CoinDesk.)
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