Barnabé Monnot

We discussed it briefly during an earlier call, but it may be worth thinking about incentive-compatibility of the different parties. Broadly: - Builders want their bids to win, and they...

Thanks @charlescharles ! - I was under the assumption that relays were somewhat limited in number and identifiable, as in a builder couldn't become a relay at the same time,...

Can you expand on what relays look like then, in a MEV-boost landscape? I thought of them as a handful, like Infura, Metamask, Flashbots, well-known names, for which validators using...

The more I think about it the more it seems like few rules can be enforced and perhaps it's best to let relays operate their favoured trade-offs. Relays have two...

Right, so assuming this eventually happens, perhaps a strong norm around relays sharing the bids they receive should be enforced. If big validators do run their own relays, they could...

Just wanted to post some thoughts about this issue. The problem as I understand it is that the economically efficient block isn't realised due to the fragmentation of the auctions....