▼Base Layers Absorb Privacy Plumbing

Score history

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

Now 31 · -2 since Sep 13 · ranged 31 to 33

Showing the last few days. Unlock full score history.

Why the conviction moved

• Sep 10
  Strengthened +5

  An Ethereum coalition is pressing to encrypt the mempool so transactions stay private before inclusion, alongside Miden's private-by-default launch. Encrypting pre-inclusion at the protocol level removes builders and relays as trusted observers, moving the censorship and ordering contest from application-layer relayers into base-layer parameters exactly as the thesis holds.

• Sep 7
  Strengthened +4

  The extended EIP-8141 frame format includes native carriage of privacy proofs alongside expiry and aggregation, per Ethereum core developers. Making proof payloads a first-class field of the transaction type reduces confidential transfers' dependence on external relayers and moves the censorship question to protocol parameters.

Showing the last 2 days. Unlock the full record.

Source trail

• Supporting · September 10, 2026

  Miden Pitches Private Finance With a USDC-Backed Token as Ethereum Coalition Pushes to Encrypt the Mempool

  An Ethereum coalition is pressing to encrypt the mempool so transactions stay private before inclusion, alongside Miden's private-by-default launch. Encrypting pre-inclusion at the protocol level removes builders and relays as trusted observers, moving the censorship and ordering contest from application-layer relayers into base-layer parameters exactly as the thesis holds.

  Miden

• Supporting · September 7, 2026

  Ethereum Developers Extend EIP-8141 Frames to Carry Expiry, Aggregation and Privacy Proofs

  The extended EIP-8141 frame format includes native carriage of privacy proofs alongside expiry and aggregation, per Ethereum core developers. Making proof payloads a first-class field of the transaction type reduces confidential transfers' dependence on external relayers and moves the censorship question to protocol parameters.

  crypto.news