Julian Ma

Julian Ma co-authored EIP-7805, the fork-choice enforced inclusion lists proposal (FOCIL) aimed at Ethereum censorship resistance, and worked on proposer-builder separation and MEV. He was a researcher in the Ethereum Foundation's Robust Incentives Group for about four years and announced in May 2026 that he was leaving.

15 talks by Julian Ma

• Fast Confirmation Rule: 13 second cofirmations
• All Core Devs - Testing #98
• A faster Ethereum: Quick Slots, finality and L1 to L2 interoperability
• What People Need From Ethereum | ETHLabs | Common S3nse - 2026
• Ethlabs and the plan to make Ethereum the root of global finance
• RPC Standards #23
• Fast Confirmation Rule Breakout #5
• Panel Discussion: Who Pays the Provers? moderated by Julian Ma, Ethereum Foundation
• Ethereum Foundation | Scaling Ethereum: overview of current plans - Julian Ma | ETHDam III - 2025
• Panel | What it's like to build Public Goods in Crypto | ETHDam III - 2025
• EIP-7805: Fork-choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL)
• The tension between MEV and Censorship Resistance Gadgets
• Start contributing to economic protocol development
• Build on Ethereum: Ethereum Gas Market and How Gas Really Works
• ELI5: Cryptoeconomics by Julian Ma | Devcon Bogotá