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Vitalik Buterin argued that with Ethereum’s upcoming ePBS upgrade, centralization risks could shift to the block building pipeline, raising concerns around transaction censorship and toxic MEV. He proposed FOCIL, where randomly selected participants require certain transactions to be included in a block, discussed encrypted mempools to curb frontrunning and sandwich attacks, and pointed to network-layer anonymization and more distributed block building as longer-term approaches to reducing structural centra ...