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What Is the Risk Associated with Centralized Batching Services?

Centralized batching services introduce a single point of failure and potential censorship risk. The central operator controls which transactions are included in the batch and when it is posted to the main chain.

Users must trust the operator not to front-run or arbitrarily exclude their transactions, which undermines the decentralized ethos.

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