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…
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Ethereum Maps Its Next L2 Scaling Round
Over the coming months Ethereum researchers advance a post-Glamsterdam scaling roadmap that raises layer-2 throughput while preserving censorship resistance, tying execution and bandwidth costs to base-layer ether transfers.
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