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According to Foresight News, Ethereum Foundation researcher Jihoon Song introduced the progress of FOCIL (Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists, i.e. EIP-7805) at the EthCC[9] conference. He pointed out that currently, over 80% of Ethereum blocks are produced by a handful of builders, resulting in high centralization and significant censorship risk. FOCIL aims to shift the power of transaction inclusion from single builders to a decentralized committee of validators.FOCIL's core process consists of three steps: in each slot, 16 validators are randomly selected to form a committee. Committee members publish local inclusion lists based on their individual observations of the mempool, and after aggregation by the proposer, validators will refuse to vote for blocks that do not include transactions from valid lists. This means that censorship resistance is no longer dependent on moral agreements but is instead directly encoded in the fork-choice rule. Compared to previous proposals, the committee mechanism significantly reduces the risk of bribery and extortion attacks, and offers native support for account abstraction (AA) and privacy protocols. Jihoon revealed that FOCIL has already been designated as a core feature for Ethereum's upcoming major upgrades. Most clients have completed prototype implementation, and the community is optimizing proof size and Gas efficiency to support future "GigaGas" level scalability.

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This important development has been disclosed through documents submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), marking a new critical phase in the strategic integration process between both parties.