Tracing committee leaks in encrypted Ethereum mempools

0xbBfd...e91B · 2026-10-06T06:19:19.000Z

Accountability for Encrypted Mempools Authors: Aditi Partap, Arantxa Zapico Introduction The prevalence of sandwich attacks on Ethereum highlights a fundamental vulnerability in public mempools: because pending transactions are visible to all participants before inclusion, block proposers and searchers can strategically reorder them to extract value. Encrypted mempools aim to reduce this leakage by hiding transaction contents until a protocol-defined reveal point. But once transactions are enc...