Encrypt the Mempool!

Every Ethereum user has felt this.

You submit a trade. You click mint. You hit send. Moments later, you get a worse price, miss the NFT, or watch your transaction stall.

This is not a wallet problem, not a DEX problem, not a user mistake. It's how Ethereum handles transactions by default. Before a transaction is confirmed, it sits visible in the public mempool. Bots, builders, and others can see your intent and use that visibility to extract value from you with front running and sandwich attacks.

An encrypted mempool on Ethereum would change this. It would let you send encrypted transactions that stay hidden from everyone until your transaction is locked in by the chain. This removes the visibility that visibility front running, sandwich attacks, and real-time censorship, while preserving decentralization and credibly neutrality.

We've come together to rally support to Encrypt the Mempool! in Ethereum's upcoming I* hardfork.