Paper 2025/194

AUCIL: An Inclusion List Design for Rational Parties

Sarisht Wadhwa, Duke University
Julian Ma, Ethereum Foundation
Thomas Thiery, Ethereum Foundation
Barnabe Monnot, Ethereum Foundation
Luca Zanolini, Ethereum Foundation
Fan Zhang, Yale University
Kartik Nayak, Duke University
Abstract

The decentralized nature of blockchains is touted to provide censorship resistance. However, in reality, the ability of proposers to completely control the contents of a block makes censorship relatively fragile. To combat this, a notion of inclusion lists has been proposed in the blockchain community. This paper presents the first formal study of inclusion lists. Our inclusion list design leverages multiple proposers to propose transactions and improve censorship resistance. The design has two key components. The first component is a utility-maximizing input list creation mechanism that allows rational proposers to achieve a correlated equilibrium while prioritizing high-value transactions. The second component, AUCIL (auction-based inclusion list), is a mechanism for aggregating the input lists from the proposers to output an inclusion list.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
Keywords
BlockchainCensorship ResistanceAuctionsMEV
Contact author(s)
sarisht wadhwa @ duke edu
Julian ma @ ethereum org
thomas thiery @ ethereum org
barnabe monnot @ ethereum org
luca zanolini @ ethereum org
f zhang @ yale edu
kartik @ cs duke edu
History
2025-02-11: approved
2025-02-10: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2025/194
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2025/194,
      author = {Sarisht Wadhwa and Julian Ma and Thomas Thiery and Barnabe Monnot and Luca Zanolini and Fan Zhang and Kartik Nayak},
      title = {{AUCIL}: An Inclusion List Design for Rational Parties},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2025/194},
      year = {2025},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/194}
}
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