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Matt Cutler (Blocknative) on block building and the economics of MEV (EP.401)

On The Brink with Castle Island

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Payment for Order Flow

There's controversy around whether that that actually results in better or worse outcomes for users. In general, payment for order flow is perceived as a centralizing force. But there's a difference between private order flow and private transactions. Private transactions are a user expressing the preference to say, I just don't want this transaction to hit the public memo. These are things that are still relatively esoteric, but I think you're going to see them become less and less as MEV moves to the post-merger world.

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