Is Encrypted Mempool Tested?

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So, Louis, you were talking mostly about encrypted mempools and the efforts to implement them on Ethereum mainnet. Is this the first time that a blockchain has sought to implement encrypted mempools or are there examples from other chains um outside of Ethereum mainnet? Yeah, good question. I'd say Ethereum is or the Ethereum ecosystem I'd say is leading the charge definitely because that we have already proposed this a couple of years back

um together with the Nosis team. So, I'd say Ethereum is certainly kind of like leading the charge and then Nosis chain with the crypto mempool on Nosis chain I would say that's the first one the first live limitation. Um but definitely not in a vacuum here. So, definitely other chains have been looking to the same the same thing either inspired by by our efforts or coming to the same realization independently. Um so, maybe uh one notable one notable one was a Noma very early on. Um they had a DKG a kind of like proposed inside of the of the protocol.

Um we've seen I think we've seen recently more recently we've seen Aptos um proposing one as well very very similar approach. Um uh and then uh yeah. And maybe what maybe really noteworthy but still within the Ethereum ecosystem um is the Arbitrum ordering sort of design. So, they Arbitrum is famously really kind of pro-fairness and kind of pro kind of fair ordering.

Um sometimes maybe even too like too too fair or too optimistically fair where where maybe flashbots or other more efficiency-minded people would say it's doesn't work this way and it kind of like creates weird sort of like spamming situations. So, they initially had this like really like fully like fair ordering protocol where first-in-first-out and that's um worked somewhat well but that that that also really is like is is a fair ordering protocol not encrypted. But but I think they're they're have their goal aligned in that they want to actually get it get get fair a fair transaction order right?

Um and they have since updated it which is to something that's called time boost. Um and then and then the decentralized time boost version together with Espresso that's also relatively similar to our approach with the threshold encryption and the encrypted mempool. So, Arbitrum definitely noteworthy in that space as well.