Many Web3 projects are now launching their own blockchains (appchains).
Why? Because owning your own chain means controlling your own economic zone — gas fees, governance, and incentives.
So the question is:
Why are projects still paying millions of dollars to use someone else’s infrastructure?
Take Base as an example. Once transactions hit around 12,200,
gas fees spike to over $1 per transaction. And as activity increases, so do the fees.
Most of this cost comes from users trying to prioritize their transactions, especially on DEXs.
But here's the thing:
It’s often far cheaper to host your own chain than to pay these recurring fees.
So why are we still paying a premium to others just for the privilege of using their sequencers?
We are entering the Appchain Era — more ecosystems are moving to their own rollups and app-specific chains.
However, this shift brings a new problem:
As more rollups depend on the same infrastructure providers,
crypto risks becoming centralized again — the very thing it was meant to solve.
So, how do we prevent this?
By encoding transparency, verifiability, and token-holder control into smart contracts,
we can decentralize sequencers and reclaim the ethos of Web3.
That’s how we move closer to Vitalik’s original vision — a world that’s open, decentralized, and truly user-owned.
This is one of the biggest challenges the crypto space needs to solve right now.
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