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@specialmech
SMG
1 year
To illustrate how easy it is to censor transactions on #Ethereum , SMG engineers have halted all transactions for 12 seconds ⏱️, paying just 0.05 ETH. Here's why we're worried 🧵 👇
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@MaxResnick1
Max Resnick
28 days
MEV is fundamentally about control. The proposer has control of which transactions make it into blocks and which order they appear in. In other words MEV is all about censorship and reordering. The good news is that fixing this is possible! 1/5 I explain how in a new post:
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@specialmech
SMG
2 months
NEW RESEARCH "Optimizing Exit Queues for Proof-of-Stake Blockchains: A Mechanism Design Approach" Changing validator sets over time potentially erodes proven security of fault-tolerant consensus protocols. by @mikeneuder , @malleshpai , @MaxResnick1
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@gupta_tivas
Tivas Gupta
6 months
Another version of the GIF which highlights how dramatic the base fee shifts are. Also note how many mempool transactions pile up when there is a high base fee!
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@MaxResnick1
Max Resnick
6 months
New Paper Alert🚨 @malleshpai and I consider transaction fee mechanism design in a dynamic context where users don't just care about immediate inclusion but instead face a dynamic tradeoff between faster inclusion and lower fees. 1/n
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@specialmech
SMG
6 months
Is the HFT arms race an inevitability? Or can we do something different on blockchains? SMG's @MaxResnick1 weighs in on The Lookout.
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