Unveiling The Road Towards a Distributed Encrypted Mempool on Ethereum

Shutter and collaborators Nethermind, Gnosis, Chainbound, and MEV Blocker (CoW Protocol) have published a white paper, "The Road Towards a Distributed Encrypted Mempool on Ethereum," proposing a phased roadmap for threshold-encrypted transaction mempools on Ethereum. The article says encryption until finalization would virtually eliminate malicious MEV and reduce real-time censorship, and it names proposer commitments within Proposer-Builder Separation as a key mechanism. The roadmap has three steps: encrypted RPC endpoints, proposer commitments in PBS, and full protocol integration. Shutter's encrypted mempool is already operational on Gnosis Chain.