Welcome back to The Gwart Show! Uri Klarman, known for his BloxRoute private mempool company, joins Gwart to discuss the future of MEV on Ethereum and Solana. Uri goes through ther Ethereum block builder journey, why public mempool’s are a problem in today’s on-chain economy, and his many (and we mean many) attempts to address MEV or miner malfeasance through token schemes. 

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

00:44 Uri's background

01:28 Blocksroute

05:52 ETH block building

11:44 DeFi vs CeFi

15:55 Can Defi compete w/ Centralization?

19:53 Block builders stealing fees

21:39 Bye bye mempool

23:52 Solutions for MEV

29:10 Bitcoin miners chase profit, always!

32:25 Incentives promote MEV on ETH

33:38 Multiple concurrent proposers

45:46 Palidin

1:01:26 Why PAL token?

1:11:33 SOL delegated stake

1:12:05 Why not RPC?

1:13:18 PAL token liquidity

1:16:04 Slashing by consensus

1:19:59 ETH gas limit token

1:24:39 SOL staking future?

1:29:53 Mining ORE

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