The Most Pressing Challenges to Solving the MEV Problem

On Ep. 62 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Robert Miller, Product Lead at Flashbots, and Lily Johnson, Rust Engineer at Astria Labs, about the latest developments in the MEV space. Robert presents Rollup-Boost, a new platform for enabling various features on Layer-2 rollups such as fast confirmation times and transaction ordering rules. He explains the role of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) in Rollup-Boost and how “shreds” on Solana inspired the design of Rollup-Boost. Lily presents EIP 7727, a proposal to change the Ethereum protocol to enable app-specific sequencing rights. Lily explains the purpose of the EIP is to give smart contracts on Ethereum more control over how their transactions are ordered and thereby redirect MEV value based off these transactions to app stakeholders, such as liquidity providers.

Guests:

Name: Robert Miller

Title: Product Lead at Flashbots

X: https://x.com/bertcmiller

Name: Lily Johnson

Title: Rust Engineer at Astria Labs

X: https://x.com/lobstermindset

Show note links:

• https://writings.flashbots.net/introducing-rollup-boost
• https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7727

Timestamps:

(00:01:32) What is Rollup Boost?

(00:07:21) How Solana Shreds Inspired the Design of Rollup-Boost

(00:10:28) The Role of TEEs in Rollup-Boost

(00:15:40) What is EIP 7727?

(00:18:46) What Stakeholders Should Capture MEV Value?

(00:26:32) Is MEV Easier to Solve on L2s than L1?

(00:31:15) The Most Pressing Challenges to Solving MEV

This episode was recorded on Friday, October 25, 2024.

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