3 papers
cs.GT2026
The Price of Decentralization in Block Building
Burak Öz, Fei Wu, Luis Correia +3
Decentralized block building mechanisms replace the monopoly of a single proposer with multiple builders. However, their censorship-resistance and fair-access benefits depend not o…
cs.GT2025
The Free Option Problem of ePBS
Bruno Mazorra, Burak Öz, Christoph Schlegel +1
Ethereum's upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade introduces EIP-7732 enshrined Proposer--Builder Separation (ePBS), which improves the block production pipeline by addressing trust and scal…
cs.CR2025
Geographical Centralization Resilience in Ethereum's Block-Building Paradigms
Sen Yang, Burak Öz, Fei Wu +1
Decentralization has an important geographic dimension that conventional metrics, such as stake distribution, often overlook. Validator location affects resilience to regional shoc…