3 papers
cs.GT2026
The Price of Decentralization in Block Building
Burak Öz, Burak Ãz, Fei Wu +4
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.CR2026
Geographical Centralization Resilience in Ethereum's Block-Building Paradigms
Sen Yang, Burak Ãz, 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…
cs.GT2026
The Free Option Problem of ePBS
Bruno Mazorra, Burak Ãz, 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…