Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 6, 2026Published at 1:32 AM EDT · New York

Ethereum Foundation researchers make the case for transaction assertions that revert any transaction whose final outcome breaks a rule the user signed

A separate Ethereum Research paper proposes a way to identify encrypted-mempool committee members who leak or sell decryption shares. That addresses a gap in the leading proposed defense against sandwich attacks.

The Ethereum Foundation's Trillion Dollar Security initiative says blind signing, and uncertainty about a transaction's final outcome, put users at risk. It is exploring native transaction assertions as a way to enforce a transaction's fina…