# Ethereum Reworks Transaction Ordering to Curb MEV and Censorship

Over the coming months, Ethereum's protocol roadmap and research agenda restructure transaction ordering — enshrined builder separation, encrypted mempools, and censorship-resistant auctions — to limit MEV, front-running, and proposer censorship, redefining who controls the block-building supply chain.

- Conviction: 23 / 100 (weakening)
- 7-day move: -9
- Horizon: Medium term (3-9 months)
- Tracking since: 2026-06-16T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-07-07T14:00:01.950Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/trends/ethereum-transaction-ordering-overhaul
- Publisher: Polylog
- Affected regions: Global

## Recent score history

- 2026-07-06: 25
- 2026-07-07: 23

## Recent evidence

- [confirms] Ethereum Foundation Pitches the Chain as Neutral Public Infrastructure as Researchers Tune the Next Upgrade (2026-07-02): Ethereum core researchers are debating a small timing parameter in the next upgrade that shapes censorship resistance, continuing the reworking of block-building and ordering rules.
- [confirms] Ethereum Researchers Sketch Post-Glamsterdam Scaling and Forced-Inclusion Plumbing (2026-06-20): A companion proposal repurposes a censorship-resistance (forced-inclusion) tool to guarantee layer-2 users a path onto the chain, extending the protocol's censorship-resistance plumbing.

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