Weak Censorship Resistance
summary
Defines censorship with the append test: a publicly visible tx is censored from a block if it could have been appended but wasn’t. Distinguishes weak (temporary delay) vs strong (permanent) censorship, reports ~75% of recent blocks are censoring (top two builders ~60%), and shows inclusion latency multiplies (e.g., 12s → 48s if 75% blocks censor) and rollup bandwidth can fall to ~25% (Aztec example). Proposes four fixes: encrypted mempools, forward inclusion lists, MEV‑burn to force maximal blocks, and end‑to‑end PBS; combining MEV‑burn + encrypted pools raises censorship cost by ~30,000x.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:46Weak versus strong censorship
- 3:13Weak censorship problems
- 6:02Ethereum 75% block censorship
- 8:31Searchers worsening censorship
- 10:20Four solutions to censorship
- 11:46Encrypted mempools and inclusion lists
- 13:33Encrypted mempool economics
- 15:18MEV-burn cost to censorship
- 16:43MEV-burn inclusion lists
- 17:47Conclusion
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