Encrypt the Mempool! EIP-8105 and the Fight Against Malicious MEV, Censorship, and Centralization - ETH Tbilisi 2.1
βEthereum Is About to Change. Here's Why It Matters. π₯
βEthereum is preparing one of its most important upgrades yet β and it's not about speed or gas fees this time. It's about fairness.
βRight now, every time you make a swap on a DEX, mint an NFT, or send a transaction on Ethereum, your transaction is visible to everyone before it gets confirmed. Bots see it. Builders see it. And they exploit it β front-running your trades, sandwiching your swaps, even censoring transactions they don't like. This is called MEV (Maximal Extractable Value), and it has cost Ethereum users over $1.8 billion.
βThink of it like placing a bet at a table where the dealer can see your cards before the round starts. That's Ethereum's mempool today.
βEIP-8105 wants to fix this β permanently, at the protocol level.
βThis proposal introduces a native encrypted mempool into Ethereum itself. When you submit a transaction, it gets sealed in an encrypted envelope. Nobody β not validators, not builders, not searchers, not anyone β can see what's inside until the transaction is already ordered and included in a block. Only then it gets decrypted and executed.
βNo more front-running. No more sandwich attacks. No more censorship of transactions in real-time.
βAnd here's what makes it different from existing "solutions" like private mempools or custom RPCs: those still require you to trust someone who can see your transaction. EIP-8105 trusts no one. That's how it should be.
βThe proposal is being put forward for Ethereum's upcoming HegotΓ‘ upgrade and is already being discussed at the highest levels of Ethereum core development, with direct involvement from Vitalik Buterin in the conversation. It's part of what's been called the "Holy Trinity of Censorship Resistance" β three upgrades (ePBS, FOCIL, and encrypted mempools) that together would make Ethereum's transaction layer truly neutral and censorship-resistant by design.
βThis is not just a technical upgrade. This is Ethereum returning to its cypherpunk roots.
βThe Event ποΈ
βJoin Luis Bezzenberger and Loring Harkness from Shutter Network β the team behind EIP-8105 and the first encrypted mempool deployments on Ethereum-like networks β for a deep dive discussion on what's coming, why it matters, and how it works.
βThe discussion will be accessible for newcomers yet technical enough for developers. You don't need to be a coder to understand why this matters β you just need to use Ethereum.
βVenue: Terminal β’ α’αα αααααα - https://maps.app.goo.gl/69Bt3qoM2Sz923Jf9
βThe Speakers π§βπ»
βLuis Bezzenberger β Head of Product at brainbot, core contributor to Shutter Network. Working in the Ethereum L2 and protocol space since 2016. Leading Shutter's product development since 2021 and one of the authors behind the EIP-8105 proposal and the encrypted mempool roadmap for Ethereum.
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βLoring Harkness β Head of Commercial at brainbot, core contributor to Shutter Network. Leading Shutter's ecosystem partnerships and published in Cointelegraph on Ethereum's transparency-fairness tradeoff.
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βFrom Shutter Network (@ShutterNetwork) β an open-source threshold encryption protocol bringing fairness and information symmetry to blockchain systems. Shutter has deployed encrypted mempools live on Gnosis Chain since July 2024 and is actively building the path to Ethereum L1 integration. https://shutter.network
βWhat You'll Walk Away With π§
βA clear understanding of how MEV extraction and transaction censorship actually work on Ethereum today
βWhy encrypted mempools are considered one of the most important missing pieces in Ethereum's architecture
βHow EIP-8105 works β the envelope/payload model, the key provider registry, and why it's technology-agnostic
βWhere this sits on Ethereum's upgrade timeline and what happens next
βHow It Works π οΈ
βShow up β no technical background required, just curiosity
βLearn β understand the problem and the solution from the people building it
βAsk questions β open discussion, nothing off limits
βConnect β meet the Ethereum community in Tbilisi
βGo Deeper π
βEIP-8105 Discussion: https://ethresear.ch/t/universal-enshrined-encrypted-mempool-eip/23685
βCampaign: https://www.encryptedmempool.org/
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