Base’s decentralisation progress is underpinned by the EVM rollup model developed by Vitalik Buterin, signalling its credibility and maturity among Ethereum Layer 2 networks

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Achieving the so-called stage 1 rollup status stems from a blog post from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, where he categorized platforms according to their degree of decentralization

Base has advanced to stage 1 in Vitalik Buterin’s rollup decentralization model, lowering its dependence on centralized entities