Ethereum Is Getting a Censorship Shield with EIP-7805
Ethereum's upcoming Hegotá upgrade will include FOCIL, a new mechanism that mitigates transaction censorship.
Ethereum just made one of its most consequential protocol decisions yet.
EIP-7805, better known as FOCIL (short for Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists), has been greenlit as "Scheduled for Inclusion" and named the consensus layer headliner for Ethereum's upcoming Hegotá upgrade.
As Ethereum researcher Thomas Thiery (a.k.a. soispoke.eth), one of FOCIL's primary champions, said regarding the news:
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William M. Peaster
William M. Peaster, Senior Writer, has been with Bankless since January 2021. Immersed in Ethereum since 2017, he covers the onchain frontier with a particular interest in art, games, and other culture apps. He has a background in creative writing and writes fiction in his free time.
