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The Impossibility of Perfect Fairness in Transaction Ordering

Why perfect fairness cannot hold in asynchronous networks, and how different blockchains adopt different relaxations to fairness.

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The Impossibility of Perfect Fairness in Transaction Ordering

The Impossibility of Perfect Fairness in Transaction Ordering

Published June 24, 2026 · Category: Markets

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Why perfect fairness cannot hold in asynchronous networks, and how different blockchains adopt different relaxations to fairness.

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Originally published at cointelegraph.com.

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