How Censorship Resistant is Ethereum? With Jon Charbonneau

In this episode, we dive into Ethereum’s censorship resistance with Jon Charbonneau, Research Associate at Delphi Digital. We discuss the effects of OFAC sanctions on Tornado Cash, MEV & builder centralization, mechanisms to mitigate censorship, and much more.

Show Notes:

(00:00:00) – Introduction.

(00:00:42) – Censorship, Tornado Cash, & OFAC sanctions.

(00:03:46) – New actors under Proof-of-Stake (PoS).

(00:12:50) – Economics for builders, relayers, & validators.

(00:15:47) – MEV on rollups.

(00:20:50) – Block builder and relayer centralization.

(00:27:49) – Types of censoring on Ethereum.

(00:31:00) – Censoring on PoW vs. PoS.

(00:35:33) – How does it all play out?

(00:46:43) – Building in a quasi-permissioned world.

(00:51:07) – Censorship mitigating mechanisms.

(00:59:19) – What comes after The Merge?

(01:10:22) – Risks of private order flow.

Resources:

• Jon’s Twitter
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ethereum
• The Complete Guide to Rollups

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