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Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade brings FOCIL, Big FOCIL, and encrypted mempools to tackle MEV, censorship, and transaction-layer privacy risks.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amor Sexton is COO of Blockdaemon, a Web3 infrastructure provider. In the early days of Ethereum Ethereum, the transaction ...

Another focus of his post is so-called “toxic MEV,” where traders exploit visibility into pending transactions to front-run or “sandwich” users’ trades.

Soon after the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) blacklisted the Tornado Cash mixer program in August, Ethereum research and development firm Flashbots announced that it would, in ...

Vitalik Buterin proposes FOCIL and encrypted mempools to prevent Ethereum block building centralization ahead of the Glamsterdam upgrade in 2026.

As mainstream adoption gathers steam and the number of decentralized finance (DeFi) transactions explode, the Ethereum community is debating a growing controversy: the best way to tackle the Miner ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) is the function of ...

Last Friday’s Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse and subsequent contagion around what that means for the crypto industry drove a dramatic increase in the profitability for validators who run the ...