The Ethereum Economy: A Systems Perspective

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I think it's also important to zoom out and view the Ethereum economy from a systems perspective. The deflationary asset will naturally be chosen by economic agents to be the collateral, to be borrowed against by inflationary assets. And so just the economic investability, the downstream wealth effects that that creates around DeFi are going to produce some sort of motor on thethereum economy that no other economy has.

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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