The Economic Benefits of MEV Smoothing

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MEV smoothing is an upgrade for collateralized staking providers like Rocket Pool. The idea is that you can actually take, if you have 32 Ether because you're a solo staker, you can actually split that Ether up into 4 Rocket Pool notes. But that actually gives you a 4 times larger net to cast to capture the potential 1000 Ether block that comes in. So decentralization, that is the big win here in MEV smoothing. And I think that gets into this third part, which is burn, redistributing all of the block rewards.

Ethereum is getting yet another economic upgrade! The scarcity engine is getting a massive level up with the advent of the MEV Burn.

With Justin Drake and Domothy, they walk us through the research and reasoning behind this next upgrade

Just when we thought we couldn’t get any more bullish…

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------ Topics Covered

0:00 Intro 7:00 What is MEV? 13:30 MEV is Subjective 17:15 The Oil Analogy 21:15 The Benefits of Smoothing 28:35 Builders and Proposers 38:45 Forced Centralization 44:35 Rug Pool Protection 48:30 Distribution 58:20 Pros of Burning 1:05:15 Burning on Overdrive 1:09:30 Does this Hurt Stakers? 1:13:55 Too Deflationary? 1:23:30 Monetary Premium 1:28:15 EIP-4844 1:31:00 The Engine 1:35:50 Wen?

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Justin Drake: https://twitter.com/drakefjustin?s=20

Dom: https://twitter.com/domothy?s=20

Hildobby's Dune Board: https://dune.com/hildobby/eth2-staking

Ultrasound.Money: https://ultrasound.money/

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