Morning Edition · Thursday, October 8, 2026Published at 1:50 AM EDT · New York

Ethereum researchers price the cost of censorship under multiple proposers and warn of orphaned bytecode in state redesign

Three new Ethereum Research posts look at whether concurrent proposers survive Sybil identities, how proprietary market-maker pools would work on Ethereum, and who cleans up code that a proposed SETCODEFROM opcode would leave behind.

A post on Ethereum Research takes up a recent paper by Saraf and co-authors, "Price of Censorship: Censorship Resistance and Throughput under Rational Concurrent Proposers." The paper derives what it costs to censor a transaction under mult…