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The Price of Decentralization in Block Building
Announce Type: new Abstract: Decentralized block building mechanisms replace the monopoly of a single proposer with multiple builders. However, their censorship-resistance and fair-access benefits depend not only on the number of builders, but also on whether builders are geographically positioned to provide timely transaction coverage. We study this tension between builder location choice, user transaction coverage, and reward concentration by modeling decentralized block building as a...
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DSA-Tokenizer: Disentangled Semantic-Acoustic Tokenization via Flow Matching-based Hierarchical Fusion
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Fast TetraBFT: Optimizing Latency Where It Matters
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