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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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Block Building Market

The block builder market is still pretty new. We think this is an area that requires a lot more attention from the ecosystem, largely because it's in everyone best interest to have an economically sustainable block builder market with lots of competition. And where you have poor or negative economics, you basically create centralizing forces whereby only deep pocketed players are able to operate right. The big fear here is you're going to have an outsourced block building market with a single builder. This is generally known as MEV dystopia, which the flash box team has been pretty vocal about.

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