Ethereum’s censorship problem has grown over the past few months. But has that finally started to take a turn? cryptauxmargaux writes for this week’s Valid Points Newsletter.
, four new relayers that are noncensoring have entered the market. Those relayers are Agnostic, Relayoor, Ultrasound and Aestus.
Although they currently make up a tiny fraction of blocks relayed, there’s now greater diversity for validators to connect with .. Its co-founder, Stefan George, told CoinDesk: “We see a significant value added in Ethereum being a credibly neutral platform. This is at risk if most validators conform to censorship requirements by a particular jurisdiction.”
George added: “There was the argument made that even in a scenario where 90% [of blocks] are censoring, it is still censorship resistant because you have to wait longer for your block to be mined, but we saw this as a weak argument as neutrality is lost and certain transactions are favored over others. This is why we criticized the direction and started offering this relay as a constructive step to improve the network.
Uri Klarman, CEO of bloXroute, which runs three relayers, two of which are noncensoring, told CoinDesk that “the main reason we're seeing the censorship percentage decreasing is because more and more validators connect to bloXroute's relays, which are now providing 20% to 25% of the blocks.” George of Gnosis Chain also believes that “most validators used the Flashbots relay mostly out of convenience and not because they required OFAC compliance. That's why it was only an operational issue for them to switch once an alternative became available.” George added that “the public sentiment certainly helped to make this change happen faster.”
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