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Grug Capital – Grug (Finally) Teaches Us MEV (S6E12)

Flirting with Models

CHAPTER

Ethereum's Proposal Builder Separation

Before Proof of Steak, block proposers built the blocks and proposed the blocks. Now a majority of validators run Flashbot's MEV Boost client which essentially separates proposing and building into two different actors. Block builders want to produce a block that maximizes fees collected in the form of priority fees and MEV. It also prevents MEV from centralizing the validator set and mitigates against censorship.

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