Ethereum Research

Concurrent Block Proposers in Ethereum

Concurrent Block Proposers in Ethereum ^look ma, we are trying to end the proposer monopoly \cdot by mike & max – friday; february 23, 2024. \cdot Abstract: The Ethereum protocol elects a single proposer to produce a block during each 12-second slot. That proposer has unilateral authority over the set of transactions included. As a result, time-sensitive transactions can be censored by a single party. We present an initial analysis of increasing the number of proposers in a single slot. S...