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This research introduces a novel transaction fee mechanism, ensuring miner profitability and user truthfulness by leveraging Bayesian game theory.

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→Multinomial Logit

→Revenue

→Collusion Resistance

Bayesian Mechanism Design Yields Truthful, Collusion-Proof Blockchain Transaction Fees

This research introduces an auxiliary mechanism method to design transaction fee mechanisms that overcome existing impossibility results, enabling positive miner revenue while preserving truthfulness and collusion-proof properties in blockchain systems.

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→Fee Market Design

→Honest User Assumption

→Transaction Fee Mechanism

Reasonable-World Assumption Solves Zero Miner Revenue Impossibility Theorem

A new mechanism design incorporates honest user assumptions to achieve asymptotically optimal miner revenue, resolving a core theoretical conflict.

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→Game-Theory

→Protocol Design

→Cryptographic Auction

Impossibility of Off-Chain Influence Proofness in Transaction Fee Mechanisms

A new impossibility theorem proves no transaction fee mechanism can simultaneously satisfy all prior properties and be resistant to off-chain miner influence.

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→Game-Theory

→Transaction Fee Mechanism

→Decentralized Finance

SAKA Mechanism Circumvents Transaction Fee Impossibility Theorem

Research establishes a mechanism design impossibility for simple fee structures, then introduces the SAKA mechanism to achieve incentive-compatibility and high welfare by formalizing searcher roles.

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→Maximal Extractable Value

→Block Producer Surplus

→Transaction Fee Mechanism

Active Block Producers Create Transaction Fee Mechanism Impossibility

Mechanism design proves that maximal extractable value fundamentally prevents simultaneous incentive compatibility and welfare maximization.

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→L1 Data Posting

→Proving Cost Mechanism

→ZK Rollup Security

ZK-Rollup Fee Mechanisms Must Price Proving Costs to Prevent Attacks

Unaligned fee mechanisms create prover-killer attacks, fundamentally challenging ZK-Rollup liveness and demanding a cost-aware mechanism design.

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→MEV Mitigation

→Fee Market

→Miner Extractable Value

Off-Chain Influence Proofness Secures Transaction Fee Mechanism Design

Introducing "Off-Chain Influence Proofness," a new desideratum proving that EIP-1559 enables miner censorship threats, which a Cryptographic Second Price Auction can mitigate.

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→Proof Generation Market

→Prover-Verifier Separation

→Proof Aggregation

Decentralized Proving Markets Secure Verifiable Computation Outsourcing Efficiency

This paper introduces a mechanism design framework for a decentralized proving market, transforming zero-knowledge proof generation into a competitive, economically efficient service.

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→Protocol Design

→Miner Revenue

→Block Producer Strategy

Off-Chain Influence Proofness Establishes New Fair Transaction Mechanism Desideratum

A new economic primitive, Off-Chain Influence Proofness, reveals EIP-1559's vulnerability to miner censorship, mandating cryptographic auction adoption.