{"id":43961,"date":"2025-08-25T14:46:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=43961"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:46:52","slug":"what-is-the-focil-framework-solution-to-reinforce-ethereums-impartiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=43961","title":{"rendered":"What is the FOCIL Framework? Solution To Reinforce Ethereum\u2019s Impartiality"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ethereum has been fighting transaction censorship, and its co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, may have just found the solution: the FOCIL framework. But what is the FOCIL framework, and how does it solve one of Ethereum\u2019s biggest issues?<\/p>\n

Broadly speaking, Ethereum\u2019s censorship risks stem from validators and MEV-boost relays that selectively exclude transactions.<\/p>\n

Some relays, such as Flashbots, once chose to exclude transactions on Ethereum from addresses sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).<\/p>\n

In fact, at its peak<\/a>, over 56% of Ethereum\u2019s blocks were OFAC-compliant.<\/p>\n

\"OFAC<\/p>\n

(All-Time Percentage of OFAC Compliant Transactions<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Buterin, on 22 August 2025, shared a post on X stating his plans to maintain blockchain neutrality through the Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion (FOCIL) framework.<\/p>\n

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I think neutrality \/ “dumb pipe” property of the L1 is important enough that we should have multiple lines of defense to protect it:<\/p>\n

1. Make sure that the public mempool continues to be strong and it continues to be viable to build blocks “naively”, by just grabbing txs from the\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) August 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n