According to @BitMEXResearch, individual non-economic relaying nodes can significantly influence Bitcoin when they loosen relay policies, whereas attempts by such nodes to tighten relay policies tend to matter less for network behavior (source: @BitMEXResearch). Bitcoin Core defines standardness and relay policy rules that govern which transactions are propagated, so looser relay increases the set of transactions reaching mempools and miners, directly linking relay policy to transaction propagation and inclusion chances (source: Bitcoin Core policy documentation). For traders, changes that broaden relay can alter mempool composition and feerate competition, impacting short-term BTC confirmation probabilities and fee volatility to monitor during intraday execution (source: Bitcoin Core mining and mempool documentation). Practical signals include tracking mempool size and median feerates on public explorers to detect propagation shifts that affect execution costs and timing (source: mempool.space dashboard).

According to @kubimensah and @mostlyblocks, the Relay Inclusion Lists (rIL) proposal introduces a relay-based system to enhance Ethereum’s censorship resistance without requiring protocol changes or increasing technical complexity, as detailed on ethresear.ch. By leveraging deterministic transaction ranking rules, rIL ensures high-priority transactions are included, reducing the risk of censorship while preserving block value and not increasing proposer load. This design is fully compatible with FOCIL and supports potential future upgrades like Multi-Relay Inclusion Lists, which could further streamline block building and support blob transactions. For traders, increased censorship resistance and network stability could improve ETH’s attractiveness, potentially lowering transaction uncertainty and reducing volatility linked to network-level risk. Adoption of rIL by relays could also influence mempool dynamics and priority fee structures, which are critical for trading strategies reliant on transaction inclusion speed. (Source: ethresear.ch/t/relay-inclusion-lists, docs.google.com/presentation)