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MEV ROAST

Roast Master: Vitalik Buterin

Thursday, Mar 25 @11:00 EST / 8:00 PDT / 15:00 UTC

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Flashbots is a research & development organization formed to mitigate the negative externalities and existential risks posed by MEV to smart-contract blockchains, starting with Ethereum.

Our primary focus is to enable a permissionless, transparent and fair ecosystem for MEV extraction.

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Enter the bustling 3D MEV blockspace bazaar.

Oracle Updates!

Rebases!

Treasure Vault of Shower Thoughts:

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MEV Roast #13 The Blockspace Bazaar: Past, Present & Future

Part 0. Intro & Memes (10min)

MEV 4D chess in the blockspace bazaar: ETH1, L2s & ETH2...

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Part 1. Treasure Maps (90min)

  1. Ethereum block space market structure (slides)
  2. Navigators: Leo Zhang & Georgios Konstantopoulos (20min)
  3. Roast Master: Vitalik Buterin (20min)

Q1: How do you expect a switch to PoS would change the MEV landscape? PoS has predictable block times, proposers can see when they will be able to create blocks, and a proposer can try to create a block multiple times before they propose it. How would MEV extraction have to adapt?

Q2: How would MEV extraction look like in a world with sharding or rollups, where instead of all transactions passing through a single proposer you have different proposers active in different "domains" at the same time?

  1. MEV auction designs (slides)
  2. Navigators: Surya Bakshi & Alejo Salles (15min)
  3. A seal-bid MEV auction design: MEV-sgx (slides)
  4. Navigators: Robert Miller & Stephane Gosselin (15min)
  5. Roast Master: Vitalik Buterin (20min)

Q3: Are there alternatives to trusted hardware for ensuring privacy & fairness?

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Part 2. Explorations (20min)

  • [Issue #24] Using flashbots as a backdoor path to account abstraction
    • EIP-2938 Account Abstraction
    • EIP-3074 AUTH and AUTHCALL opcodes

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