The Philosophy of Flashbots

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MEV: I really do see this relative front running as a privacy concern more than anything else. It's like, if I'm able to hide what I'm about to do, I should be doing that. And so the threshold encryption solution that we're building is really meant to address that relative front running. But for this, I really do not see how there's like a strong, like argument to be made that this is ethical or like, I just don't see it.

This week, Anna and Tarun chat with Sunny Aggarwal and Dev Ojha about their new project Osmosis, an AMM built into the Cosmos ecosystem using the IBC interoperability protocol.

Osmosis brings some interesting innovations to the AMM table, starting from the seamless IBC integration to customizable bonding curves and per-pool governance to promote experimentation. Sunny and Dev are also very passionate about the topic of MEV, diving into the various types of value extraction, how MEV is mitigated on other networks and how it could be largely eliminated on Osmosis through threshold cryptography.

Here are some links for this episode:

Anoma’s Adrian Brink on Validity Predicates, Ferveo DKG & More, Zero Knowledge Episode 184
CowSwap & DAO Tech with Gnosis’s Martin Köppelmann, Zero Knowledge Episode 183
Arkworks SNARK libraries with Pratyush Mishra, Zero Knowledge Episode 169
Threshold Decryption for mempool privacy with Dev Ojha, the ZKV event where Dev spoke earlier.
Flashbots with Phil Daian and Stephane Gosselin, Zero Knowledge Episode 168
General intro to Osmosis.

ZK Validator now supports OSMO staking delegation, so if you’re interested in supporting the network check out the info here: https://zkvalidator.com/osmosis

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