How Do You See Relayers in a Mebot Setting?

4min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

In terms of incentives, write like relays are building a reputation. So they're focused on high performance infor structure, high througput, simulation and an up time. In terms of builders, te builders are doing much more of an m v job of optimizing a block construction. They will charge for that service in one way or another,. typically probably through lakeapi request fees.

Listen to conversations between two veterans of the crypto industry: Su Zhu, CEO and CIO of Three Arrows Capital, and Hasu, Strategy lead at Flashbots. Exploring the big ideas in crypto from first principles.

In this episode, Hasu continues the conversation with Danny Ryan and Tim Beiko, two researchers from the Ethereum Foundation. The three are joined by Stephane Gosselin, co-founder of Flashbots, who makes his podcast debut and stands in as Hasu's co-host.

Together, they discuss:

MEV before and after the Merge
mev-boost and proposer-builder-separation (PBS)
The rise of liquid staking pools
Whether Lido should cap its own growth
How the Ethereum Foundation sees its role in interacting with very "protocol-adjacent" projects like Flashbots + Lido

SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast

FOLLOW your hosts