Ethereum Inclusion Lists and Censorship Resistance
How Ethereum's inclusion list auction design limits builder censorship power, with concrete mechanics and honest caveats about what it can and can't fix.
№ 002EthereumEthereum Inclusion Lists and Builder Censorship
Inclusion lists let validators force transactions into blocks without ending builder specialization. The mechanism, its limits, and what it changes in practice.
№ 003EthereumEthereum Withdrawal Queue and Its Real Cost to Yield
Ethereum's activation and exit queues impose a computable drag on effective yield. The mechanism, the arithmetic, and what solo stakers typically miss.
№ 004EthereumLayer-Two Networks and Ethereum Security Inheritance
Not every L2 borrows Ethereum's security guarantees, the mechanical gap between those that do and those that only borrow its liquidity, explained.
№ 005EthereumDecentralized Sequencers and Optimistic Rollup Trust
One company controls transaction ordering on most rollups today. Decentralized sequencers redistribute that power, and introduce tradeoffs worth understanding.
№ 006EthereumWhy Gas Estimation Undercounts Smart Contract Costs
Gas estimation fails in predictable ways. Learn the exact mechanics behind undercounts, from storage slots to dynamic calls, with a worked example.
№ 007EthereumValidator Correlation Risk and Slashing in Staking Pools
Why slashing penalties scale with how many validators fail together, and how staking pool design either contains or amplifies that damage.
№ 008EthereumEthereum Precompiles: How Crypto Operations Get Fast
Ethereum precompiles run heavy cryptographic work at fixed gas costs inside the client, not the EVM. Here's exactly how they work and why they matter.
№ 009EthereumHow Optimistic Rollups Detect Fraud On-Chain
Optimistic rollups skip verifying every transaction. Here's the exact mechanism that catches cheaters anyway, with a worked example.
№ 010EthereumEthereum Account Abstraction: Smart Contract Wallet Security
Account abstraction rewrites Ethereum's security model for wallets. Here's what actually changes, what improves, and what new risks quietly appear.
№ 011EthereumEthereum Proof-of-Stake Finality Explained
Ethereum's PoS finality isn't instant. Here's the exact two-epoch mechanic that determines when a block is truly safe to treat as settled.
№ 012EthereumWhy Some Ethereum Smart Contracts Can't Be Upgraded
Proxy patterns let developers upgrade smart contracts, but certain design choices make upgrading impossible. Here's exactly why, with concrete mechanics.