Sedna: Sharding transactions in multiple concurrent proposer blockchains
Abstract
Modern blockchains increasingly adopt multi-proposer (MCP) consensus to remove single-leader bottlenecks and improve censorship resistance. However, MCP alone does not resolve how users should disseminate transactions to proposers. Today, users either naively replicate full transactions to many proposers, sacrificing goodput and exposing payloads to MEV, or target few proposers and accept weak censorship and latency guarantees. This yields a practical trilemma among censorship resistance, low latency, and reasonable cost (in fees or system goodput). We present Sedna, a user-facing protocol that replaces naive transaction replication with verifiable, rateless coding. Users privately deliver addressed symbol bundles to subsets of proposers; execution follows a deterministic order once enough symbols are finalized to decode. We prove Sedna guarantees liveness and \emph{until-decode privacy}, significantly reducing MEV exposure. Analytically, the protocol approaches the information-theoretic lower bound for bandwidth overhead, yielding a 2-3x efficiency improvement over naive replication. Sedna requires no consensus modifications, enabling incremental deployment.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.17045,
title = {Sedna: Sharding transactions in multiple concurrent proposer blockchains},
author = {Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa and Benjamin Marsh and Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias and Alberto Sonnino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.17045},
year = {2025}
}