Ethereum

While controlling so many blocks, why wouldn’t the Lido DAO do an exclusivity deal with whoever turns out to be the best MEV bot? They could offer a higher kickback to the bot in exchange for guaranteeing 1/3rd of all Ethereum blocks. They’d end up with the highest APR forever. Does anything stop this?

davidcann.eth, developer, EVMavericks #982, @orangedao, @purple

Vertical integration between proposers and builders is possible in theory, but “best mev bot” is a pretty contested title atm, and unless the vertical integration was used to do things that you couldn’t do without (which would be terrible optics as pointed out), I am not sure it would be so valuable

Interesting question still to think through what a bot would do if it was “guaranteed 1/3rd of block space” vs what it does today. Selling futures is easier then, but variable base fee is still out of your control. See Julian’s work on such questions!

Robust Incentives Group @ Ethereum Foundation

https://rig.ethereum.org

Interesting question still to think through what a bot would do if it was “guaranteed 1/3rd of block space” vs what it does today. Selling futures is easier then, but variable base fee is still out of your control. See Julian’s work on such questions! https://mirror.xyz/0x03c29504CEcCa30B93FF5774183a1358D41fbeB1