▼Ethereum Redesigns Block Production

Score history

Daily conviction score, 0 to 100. Higher means the thesis is more strongly corroborated.

Now 32 · -2 since Oct 11 · ranged 32 to 34

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Why the conviction moved

• Oct 8
  Strengthened +4

  The Glamsterdam rehearsal on Sepolia brings in enshrined proposer-builder separation (ePBS) and block-level access lists. That moves the builder/proposer split from research into a fork on a December mainnet track.

• Oct 8
  Strengthened +2

  A new Ethereum Research post prices the cost of censorship under multiple concurrent proposers and asks whether the design survives Sybil identities. Researchers are pricing a new economic attack surface before the redesign ships, as the thesis predicts.

Source trail

• Supporting · October 8, 2026

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

  A new Ethereum Research post prices the cost of censorship under multiple concurrent proposers and asks whether the design survives Sybil identities. Researchers are pricing a new economic attack surface before the redesign ships, as the thesis predicts.

  Ethereum Research

• Supporting · October 8, 2026

  Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade goes live on Sepolia with a 200 million gas ceiling that early blocks leave half empty

  The Glamsterdam rehearsal on Sepolia brings in enshrined proposer-builder separation (ePBS) and block-level access lists. That moves the builder/proposer split from research into a fork on a December mainnet track.

  CoinDesk