According to @Gajpower, FOCIL should be prioritized ahead of ePBS on Ethereum’s roadmap to support unstoppable, low-risk DeFi rather than high-frequency trading, source: X post by @Gajpower on Nov 12, 2025. According to @Gajpower, this view positions Ethereum’s near-term technical focus toward low-risk DeFi infrastructure and away from HFT optimizations, source: X post by @Gajpower on Nov 12, 2025. According to @Gajpower, the post explicitly states that FOCIL ranks higher priority for unstoppable low-risk DeFi and includes a reference link to an X thread by Barnabé Monnot for context, source: X post by @Gajpower on Nov 12, 2025.

According to @jih2nn, FOCIL would add protocol-level censorship resistance that underpins Ethereum’s credible neutrality, and delaying its shipment would make integration harder, source: @jih2nn on X, Nov 11 2025. According to @jih2nn, adding FOCIL to the Glamsterdam fork increases complexity and would delay the fork, repeating Pectra cadence issues and creating timing risk for ETH upgrade expectations, source: @jih2nn on X, Nov 11 2025. According to @jih2nn, combining ePBS with FOCIL is more complex than delivering 6s with FOCIL, and FOCIL is lower priority than other scaling features, signaling potential scope pressure for Glamsterdam, source: @jih2nn on X, Nov 11 2025. According to @jih2nn, the community has strongly signaled preference for FOCIL and contributors are advancing it bottom up, indicating continued momentum regardless of cadence debates, source: @jih2nn on X, Nov 11 2025. According to @jih2nn, he supports shipping FOCIL in Glamsterdam and warns that deferring to a later H* fork is uncertain, which traders can read as roadmap feature-set uncertainty, source: @jih2nn on X, Nov 11 2025. According to @jih2nn, stakeholders are invited to comment via the Ethereum PM issue and the Ethereum Magicians thread, making these key venues to track timeline and scope decisions for ETH, source: github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/1793#issuecomment-3501249470 and ethereum-magicians.org/t/community-feedback-on-non-headlining-features-in-glamsterdam/26410.

According to @VitalikButerin, FOCIL only makes sense when it relies on the public mempool because its goal is to let regular small stakers source transactions there. Source: Vitalik Buterin, X, Sep 10, 2025.

According to @jih2nn, FOCIL guarantees equality of opportunity for all transactions in the public mempool as long as there is at least one honest includer, establishing a fair-inclusion baseline for on-chain order flow management. Source: @jih2nn on X, Aug 24, 2025. According to @jih2nn, the freedom to censor does not stand above this guarantee, positioning censorship resistance as subordinate to the protocol’s equal-opportunity rule. Source: @jih2nn on X, Aug 24, 2025. According to @jih2nn, this explicitly covers all transactions in the public mempool, making it directly relevant to execution reliability for traders who broadcast orders publicly. Source: @jih2nn on X, Aug 24, 2025.

According to @jih2nn, @soispoke delivered a presentation detailing the compatibility and synergies between FOCIL and ePBS, with a strong focus on the slot pipelining aspect of ePBS, where the two systems interact most effectively. This analysis provides traders with insights into potential efficiency improvements and technical advancements that could influence blockchain infrastructure performance and scalability, impacting related crypto assets and protocols. Source: @jih2nn

According to @jih2nn, one of the key synergies between FOCIL and ePBS lies in the separation of the beacon block from the execution payload. With ePBS, if the execution payload fails to meet IL compliance, only the execution payload undergoes reorganization (reorg), leaving the beacon chain's stability intact. This architectural improvement reduces risks of chain instability during execution layer events, offering greater predictability for Ethereum (ETH) traders and enhancing confidence in network security and transaction finality. Source: @jih2nn