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We argue that:
- Weak statelessness alone cannot guarantee strong censorship resistance.
- Future designs must revisit strong statelessness, and address practical questions, such as who generates these proofs, what types of proofs are most efficient, and how bandwidth and proving costs impact node requirements.
- In the meantime, Validity-Only Partial Statelessness (VOPS) offers a simple and effective bridge: reducing local storage by 25x while preserving a functional, censorship-resistant public mempool.
- AA-VOPS extends VOPS to support full native account abstraction, offering a path toward strong statelessness by minimizing witness overhead through local caching and incremental updates.