Base

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

Some Qs regarding flashblocks

1. What does “native revert protection” mean? Is it like flashbots on mainnet where sending a bundle only works if the transaction succeeds (failures cost no gas)? If this is the case will there be a reputation score and high/low priority queue like flashbots on mainnet to prevent spamming?

3. For node operators who wish to stream and update their node with data from the latest flashblocks data stream. Will there be built in support in reth or will we need to stream and update state utilizing revm or another method ourselves?

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2. Flashblocks sets the stage for base to be like mainnet as it creates the potential for an external party to now build blocks. Does this mean in the future we will be looking at the base version of TitanBuilder and BeaverBuild dominating where MEV firms who represent the majority of the gas in blocks control how the blocks are built?

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In this case if transactions sent to the sequencer are all forwarded to the flashblocks block builder behind the scenes then there should be 0 failed transaction on testnet as the builder should only allow transactions that pass simulation go through?

But on testnet there are still failed transactions.

think in this case, revert protection comes from the TEE simulating txs before any gas needs to be spent on computation