Morning Edition · Monday, July 13, 2026Published at 1:24 AM EDT · New York

Ethereum Researchers Probe Sybil Attacks on a Proposed Censorship-Resistance Design

A new analysis argues an inclusion-list scheme meant to keep transactions from being censored could itself be gamed by attackers spinning up fake identities.

As Ethereum maps its next round of scaling, its researchers are stress-testing the primitives meant to keep the network censorship-resistant. A post on the Ethereum Research forum examines Sybil attacks on AUCIL, one of the inclusion-list d…