Robert Miller (Flashbots) on Decentralizing Block Building with SUAVE (EP.378)
On The Brink with Castle Island
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The Cost of Resilience - MEV Boost
The way that MEV Boost was implemented, you are by default just outsourcing all of your blocks to MEV Boost. And this became a problem because flashbots and the flashbots relay was adopted to a high percentage of the network. So now validators can say, hey, I want to accept MEV Boost blocks, but I only want to accept them if they're bidding to me 0.05 ETH, or one ETH, or something like that. That's what we introduced in our latest MEV Boost kind of release. It keeps the network more resilient and involves more parties in the block building process - which is what we want. While allowing them to still optimize for MEV profits
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