We should probably remove this line for the Docker tests: https://github.com/scroll-tech/rollup-node/blob/07c16685261077293778233a6b5bb73937f59d08/tests/launch_rollup_node_sequencer.bash#L21 If we don't allow empty blocks in the Docker tests then we would've caught the error already during testing. _Originally posted by @jonastheis in https://github.com/scroll-tech/rollup-node/pull/391#pullrequestreview-3382097334_