Measuring the Concentration of Control in Contemporary Ethereum

ePrint Report: Measuring the Concentration of Control in Contemporary Ethereum

Simon Brown

Ethereum is undergoing significant changes to its architecture as it evolves. These changes include its switch to PoS consensus and the introduction of significant infrastructural changes that do not require a change to the core protocol, but that fundamentally affect the way users interact with the network. These changes represent an evolution toward a more modular architecture, in which there exists new exogenous vectors for centralization. This paper …

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