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Censorship risks over Ethereums block producing industry are melting away as OFAC compliant MEV-Boost relays keep building fewer and fewer blocks. A Steady Decline Ethereums censorship issues are slowly getting...

Welcome to “The Chopping Block!” – where crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news. This week, Flashbots co-founder Phil Daian joins the show to go deep on what maximal extractable value (MEV) means and how it’s shaping the Ethereum ecosystem. Show highlights: how Phil started working in MEV and why he believes it...

Lead MEV organization Flashbots is conducting a reverse-pitching process to raise between $30 million and $50 million. The company has recently come under fire for its role in censoring Ethereum...

During the crypto chaos at the beginning of this month, they saw a rise in MEV or profits from optimizing the order of transactions. The collapse of FTX this month made running the Ethereum network much more profitable. The crypto industry ran into the almost unbreakable rule that when markets are chaotic, the best place […] The post FTX...

A new oracle-developed system dubbed OEV is looking to put measures in place that will help DApps recover funds lost to maximal extractable value (MEV). A new oracle method seeks to recover the extra money users of decentralized applications (DApps) pay to miners, known as maximal extractable value (MEV). It is the highest profit a […] The post...

An ongoing exploit has led to more than $158,000 being extracted from an Ethereum user through an operation involving extremely high gas fees. Gas Fees Gamed An Ethereum user appears...

More and more Ethereum blocks are being produced by censorious MEV-Boost relays, the most notable of which is Flashbots. If it really has Ethereums best interests at heart, perhaps the...

Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra were joined by Laura Shin to chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. Show topics: Whether crypto optimism is different in Asia than in the United States How Sam Bankman-Fried has been doing some work with US regulators How the CFTC lawsuit against Ooki...

Justin Drake, researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, talks about the Merge, how this transition affects Bitcoin, where Ethereum’s road map is going, and more. Show highlights: how Justin was feeling prior to and during the Merge whether the upgrade is complete or there are other things to watch out for why Ethereum has slashing is a better form of removing any attackers the...

Stephane Gosselin, cofounder and chief architect of Flashbots, and Uri Klarman, CEO of Bloxroute Labs, joined Unchained to discuss everything about MEV, an especially important topic now with the Merge coming. Show highlights: what MEV is, how it works under Proof of Work some examples of MEV, like frontrunning and arbitrage how MEV is a rabbit hole full of monsters the role of...

Ethereum’s switch to proof-of-stake is scheduled for mid-September. What are the possible risks? How does it work compared to Bitcoin’s proof-of-work consensus?...

Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news in the digital asset industry. In this episode, Laura Shin, host of Unchained and author of The Cryptopians, also joined the conversation. Show topics: What Tornado Cash is and why it got sanctioned by the OFAC The difference between Tornado Cash and...

Mainstream financial audiences are now paying attention to miner extractable value (MEV), and bitcoin investors should too.Bitcoin mining revenue streams are historically very boring. Miners earn money from two sources: subsidies built into the protocol and fees for processing transactions. Sometimes a company will pay miners to put a...

The Bank for International Settlements has suggested that new regulatory approaches may be needed to address market manipulation by blockchain miners and validators. BIS Likens MEV to Illegal Market Manipulation...

The “miner extractable value” or MEV and its effects are one of the industry’s open secrets. And the Bank for International Settlements recently put out a document titled “Miners as intermediaries: extractable value and market manipulation in crypto and DeFi” to explain the phenomenon...

The “miner extractable value” or MEV and its effects are one of the industry’s open secrets. And the Bank for International Settlements recently put out a document titled “Miners as intermediaries: extractable value and market manipulation in crypto and DeFi” to explain the phenomenon...

There was a lot of excitement in the crypto community as many anticipated and waited for the launching of the APE coin. The coin was launched by the Bored Ape Yacht Club and recorded massive growth once it was listed on many top exchanges. The event took place on March 17, and many BAYC NFTs holders received the coin in an airdrop that...