As we recently announced, July is a voting month for Etherlink and the time has come for Tezos bakers to participate in the second Etherlink governance vote this month: the Sequencer Upgrade proposal.
Important Dates
Proposal period: sequencer governance period 17, spanning between L1 level #9624289 (current ETA is Sunday, 20 July 2025, 11:15:20 UTC) and L1 level #9674689 (Friday, 25 July 2025, 03:15:20 UTC).
Promotion period: sequencer governance period 18, spanning between L1 level #9674689 (Friday, 25 July 2025, 03:15:20 UTC) and L1 level #9725089 (Tuesday, 29 July 2025, 19:15:20 UTC).
What’s changing?
The current operator MIDL.dev is discontinuing its operation of the sequencer by 15th of August to fully focus on new projects. We believe that Optimistic Labs — the entity operating the Etherlink bridge frontend — in technical partnership with Nomadic Labs and TriliTech is best suited to take over this responsibility.
Proposed sequencer details:
- Public key (hash):
p2pk64mGSmsRAuodTdyNMJdSC6SmtWHF3gXH1WmmpPY8hyTqYFfd4Bg - Sequencer fee address:
0x3B1885eeC759C22C878E12C84FAC33B3B9D153E4
As a reminder, the public key of the sequencer is used by the Etherlink kernel to verify the transaction bundled by the sequencer and posted on the Tezos Layer 1. The fee address, on the other end, receives after each block the inclusion fees paid by Etherlink’s users.
We will be using this opportunity to move the sequencer from Europe (Brussels) to Japan (Tokyo). Should the community decide to vote in favor of the proposal, Etherlink nodes requiring a minimal latency with the sequencer node should also consider moving with it.
How to Vote
Participating in Etherlink governance is easy. Bakers can vote via Octez CLI or using Better Call Dev. If you are using a voting key, make sure it has been properly registered and claimed beforehand.
Proposal Period
Sunday, 20 July 2025, 11:15:20 UTC → Friday, 25 July 2025, 03:15:20 UTC
Using Octez Client
To support the proposal during the Proposal Period, run the following command with the Octez client:
octez-client call KT1WckZ2uiLfHCfQyNp1mtqeRcC1X6Jg2Qzf from <baking_address or voting_key> \
--entrypoint upvote_proposal \
--arg 'Pair "p2pk64mGSmsRAuodTdyNMJdSC6SmtWHF3gXH1WmmpPY8hyTqYFfd4Bg" 0x3B1885eeC759C22C878E12C84FAC33B3B9D153E4'
Using Better Call Dev
- Go to the sequencer governance contract on Better Call Dev
- Connect your wallet, and go to the Interact tab.
- Select the upvote proposal entrypoint and fill in proposed sequencer’s public key and fee address as parameters:
-p2pk64mGSmsRAuodTdyNMJdSC6SmtWHF3gXH1WmmpPY8hyTqYFfd4Bg
-0x3B1885eeC759C22C878E12C84FAC33B3B9D153E4
Clicking on latest call will fill the form for you! Just check the resulting value. - Click on Execute and verify the vote details in your wallet.
- Sign the operation and submit the contract call for the vote
- Verify your vote in Etherlink’s governance explorer (or a block explorer): Sequencer | Etherlink governance
Promotion Period
Friday, 25 July 2025, 03:15:20 UTC → Tuesday, 29 July 2025, 19:15:20 UTC
Using Octez Client
To vote “yea” for the proposed sequencer change:
octez-client call KT1WckZ2uiLfHCfQyNp1mtqeRcC1X6Jg2Qzf from <baking_address or voting_key> \
--entrypoint "vote" --arg '"yea"'
Replace "yea" with "nay" or "pass" if you wish to vote against or abstain.
Using Better Call Dev
- Go to the sequencer governance contract on Better Call Dev
- Connect your wallet and open the Interact tab
- Select the vote entrypoint
- Fill in your vote parameter:
"yea","nay", or"pass" - Click Execute, sign the operation in your wallet, and confirm
- Verify your vote in Etherlink’s governance explorer
This is the first vote using the sequencer governance process — so if you’re a baker, make sure to review the updated voting guide and commands here:
