# The power of faster blocks

**URL:** <https://research.arbitrum.io/t/the-power-of-faster-blocks/9609>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 31, 2024, 12:35pm UTC](https://research.arbitrum.io/t/the-power-of-faster-blocks/9609 "2024-05-31T12:35:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 6

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![edfelten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@edfelten](https://research.arbitrum.io/u/edfelten)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://research.arbitrum.io/t/the-power-of-faster-blocks/9609/6 "2024-06-12T21:01:06Z")

</div>

Yes, decentralizing while protecting non-express lane txs from front-running is a challenge. It looks like some kind of threshold decryption scheme is needed for that. We have ongoing research on how to fit together the needed pieces to make a viable decentralized sequencing protocol that does this (and doesn’t sacrifice other desirable properties).

---

_[View the full topic](https://research.arbitrum.io/t/the-power-of-faster-blocks/9609)._