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Vitalik Buterin’s New Ethereum Roadmap Takes Aim at MEV and Censorship
9.11.2022
Amidst a number of new changes, Buterin’s new vision for Ethereum adds a section aimed at curtailing the threats of centralization
New oracle system to help DApps retrieve millions lost to MEV
3.11.2022
OEV-enabled oracles auction off the right to extract on-chain value to the same third-party searchers who used to bid for the blockspace
Coinbase ETH stakers can auto-opt MEV rewards
2.11.2022
Coinbase Cloud platform has taken a step to reward its users who are willing to stake their ETH holdings on the network. An additional reward by MEV-Boost, backed by Flashbots, will be automatically credited to Prime and Retail users. PBS, short for Proposer-Builder Separation, enables these...
48% of Ethereum Blocks Face Censorship From OFAC-Compliant Flashbots
15.10.2022
For a couple of years now, MEV-Boost relays or Flashbots have become popular tools in order to gather the maximum value that can be extracted from Ethereum’s block production. However, in recent times, Flashbots have been controversial as people believe the technology threatens...
What’s Going On With Ethereum’s MEV-Boost?
5.10.2022
Flashbots' block relayers continue to dominate the Ethereum validator ecosystem. And with them, censorship continues to grow
45% of ETH validators now complying with US sanctions — Labrys CEO
30.9.2022
Labrys CEO Lachlan Feeney is trying to raise awareness amongst validators running Flashbots’ software that they may potentially be contributing to censorship within the Ethereum network
MEV bot earns $1M but loses everything to a hacker an hour later
28.9.2022
An MEV bot gained massive profits worth $1 million by seizing an arbitrage opportunity. However, it was tricked into authorizing a malicious transaction that drained the funds
Are Block Builders the Key to Solving Ethereum’s MEV Centralization Woes?
6.7.2022
Proposer-builder separation is one way Ethereum is implementing modular decentralization
Panther Protocol’s $ZKP Token Launches, Sets to Revolutionize Private Finance
1.2.2022
In the growing DeFi panorama, both institutional traders and retail investors are starting to notice the inherent privacy issues with the most popular Layer-1 blockchains. The extreme transparency of L1s such as Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche, to name a few, leaves investors vulnerable to attacks...
MEV Tokens Top Weekly Performers in Wake of EIP-1559
10.9.2021
a leading MEV protection project, raised USD 17.4m from a number of prominent investors.The category, which is made up of tokens such as EDEN, Gnosis (GNO), and Automata (ATA) has experienced growth in the wake of the roll-out of
MEV Harms Ethereum Users And it May Be Here For Some Time
1.8.2021
One of the hottest debates in Ethereum (ETH) right now is about miner extractable value (MEV). This is the practice of miners ordering (or being paid to order) transactions in such a way as to front-run or back-run trades made by other users.
MEV was documented as early as April 2019 in a paper...
Ethereum's MEV Vulnerability To Be 'Less of a Problem' - Buterin
22.7.2021
Source: Adobe/H_Ko
Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin claims that it is about to get more difficult for bad actors to exploit a vulnerability that allows them to attack the network, hurting it and its users.
As reported, a "personal project" (now suspended) by developer and CEO...
Balancer v2 and Gnosis' 'CowSwap' take aim at MEV with planned integration
28.4.2021
The two protocols will collaborate on a joint platform that will combine the best features of both
Researcher suggests miners are manipulating Ethereum blocks to exploit DeFi
1.10.2020
Miner Extractable Value is no longer just a theoretical concept