The Dencun fork is a major Ethereum upgrade planned for over 2 years and recently went live on March 13 at epoch 29696. This upgrade introduces blob transactions, designed to reduce transaction costs for rollups. This post will detail Flashbots’ engineering work in preparation for the upgrade.
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In response to recent developments around legal requirements for relay providers in their home jurisdictions, we have decided to accelerate the release of our relay code as open source.
Over the last few days, mev-boost has been a hot discussion topic in the community. We want to take this opportunity to highlight and educate the design and trust assumptions that make mev-boost possible as a merge-ready PBS solution.
Calling all validators to test mev-boost.
Understanding mev-boost as an iteration on the original Flashbots auction, and how it paves the way for full in-protocol PBS
This article explains the benefits of mev-boost to the network and to validators, node operators, and staking pools.
This document outlines the design for a marketplace for block construction (often referred to as block proposer / block builder separation or PBS) compatible with the upcoming Ethereum merge fork. This trust based solution closely resembles the current Flashbots auction design with modifications to enable solo staker participation without introducing changes to Ethereum consensus. This solution aims to bridge the gap to a permissionless PBS design which should be strongly considered for the cleanup fork in order to improve decentralization.