Ethereum’s ‘Glamsterdam’ Upgrade Plans ePBS, FOCIL and Encrypted Mempools for Distributed Block Building

Ethereum (ETH) is preparing the ‘Glamsterdam’ upgrade, which Vitalik Buterin detailed in a March 2 post, introducing ePBS (enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation) to curb block builder centralization. The roadmap also features FOCIL for multi-party transaction inclusion, encrypted mempools to mitigate toxic MEV, and longer-term ideas for more distributed block construction inspired by systems like BitTorrent.