Episode Details

In this week’s episode, Anna and James Prestwich chat with Phil Daian and Stephane Gosselin from the Flashbots project. Flashbots is a research and development organization formed to mitigate the negative externalities and existential risks posed by miner-extractable value (MEV) to smart-contract blockchains

They talk about the Flashbots organization and mission as well as the evolving opportunities and dangers lurking in the mempool.

Miner extractable value (MEV) is a measure devised to study consensus security by modeling the profit a miner (or validator, sequencer, or other privileged protocol actor) can make through their ability to arbitrarily include, exclude, or re-order transactions from the blocks they produce.

Here are some links to previous episodes, the project & MEV:

• Discussing Plasma and Storage Rent with Karl Floersch and Phil Daian
• Storage rent with Phil Daian
• Monsters in the Mempool with Dan Robinson from Paradigm on Zero Knowledge Podcast
• Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges
• Flashbots: Frontrunning the MEV crisis on the Flashbots blog
• Flashbots post on Ethresear.ch
• Flashbots
• Flashbots Alpha
• MEV research roadmap
• Flashbots MEV Fellowship - collective research process
• MEV Roast Calendar

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