Distinguished crypto analyst Willy Woo believes that Ethereum is already being managed by US authorities
On-chain analyst Willy Woo has tweeted that he believes Ethereum to already be under control of the U.S. authorities, claiming that dApps constructed on the second largest blockchain aren’t decentralized in any respect and that transactions on Ethereum aren’t immune to censorship.
In his tweet, Woo included a screenshot from inclusion.watch and said that 69% of Ethereum blocks are already compliant with OFAC (it has solely been three months after the Merge improve was launched in September).
Is that this proper? Solely 3 months after ETH goes PoS, 69% of blocks are OFAC compliant?
Which means Ethereum is already underneath management by the US authorities.
This implies all DeFi apps working on ETH aren’t decentralised finance. And transactions aren’t censorship resistant. pic.twitter.com/VqNWuTXepn
— Willy Woo (@woonomic) December 23, 2022
OFAC is the Workplace of International Property Management, the entity that enforces United States financial sanctions. In October, the share of blocks compliant with OFAC immediately went up from 9% to 51%. This compliance is to do with MEV-Increase relays, to which the manufacturing of ETH blocks is outsourced.
Ethereum blocks went from 9% OFAC compliant to 51% OFAC compliant previously month, as mev increase (block outsourcing) takes market share. https://t.co/SYiVHPlTf4
— Lyn Alden (@LynAldenContact) October 14, 2022
There have additionally been different issues within the crypto group about Ethereum changing into centralized. The primary one is that round 52% of Ethereum nodes are hosted by Amazon Internet Providers (AWS), a heavyweight infrastructure supplier.
The second is that after Merge was applied, solely two entities have been in command of round 50% of the Ethereum community — Lido and Coinbase. That is the place almost 50% of all staked ETH has been held — 30.24% and 14.44%, correspondingly.
Nevertheless, excellent news about that is that Lido is a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Group), so it permits anybody to hitch it to develop into a part of the biggest entity on Ethereum.
