Ethereum

Base is going to be using flashblocks. Because it forces a MEV priority auction by fee and gives revert protection it should reduce their L1 usage too

Flashblocks make Base faster

This 10x change makes Base the fastest EVM chain to date, bringing effective block times from 2 seconds down to 200 milliseconds —and they're live on testnet right now + coming to mainnet in Q2 https://t.co/q4eKK6iapd

Build on Base

Base is going to be using flashblocks. Because it forces a MEV priority auction by fee and gives revert protection it should reduce their L1 usage too

https://x.com/buildonbase/status/1895223243713458184

1/8)
've officially been priority ordering pilled. Why? Two words:

MEV Taxes.

What the hell are MEV taxes, and why should you care?

After reading through 
@paradigm's 'Priority Is All You Need' article by @danrobinson and @davewhite it’s clear:

- MEV taxes capture a cut of extracted MEV and redirect it to the app layer.

- Protocols can start leveraging this today. Especially with @unichain's launch.

To understand MEV taxes, we first need to look at how MEV is extracted when priority ordering isn’t enforced.

Here’s a classic example: An MEV searcher sandwiches a victim’s trade by placing a buy order before and a sell order after their transaction.

Notice how the block isn’t ordered by priority fees.
Instead, the block builder reorders transactions to maximize MEV profits.

ref: https://paradigm.xyz/2024/06/priority-is-all-you-need

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Awesome - I wrote a bit about this: https://warpcast.com/blainemalone/0x83c3ecda