Thomas Thiery
Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation and author of EIP-7805 (FOCIL), focused on protocol design for censorship resistance, MEV mitigation, and Ethereum client research.
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Feb 1, 2026 • 58min
Is The Future of Ethereum Centralised and Censored?
Thomas Thiery, an Ethereum Foundation researcher and author of EIP-7805 (FOCIL), works on protocol design for censorship resistance and MEV mitigation. He explains how MEV centralized block production and maps where censorship can happen. He introduces FOCIL’s validator-driven inclusion lists to force transaction inclusion. They compare public vs private mempools and weigh FOCIL against encrypted mempool approaches.
