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

"the MEV trilemma posits that MEV will be extracted one way or another – chain designers can only choose between an explicit auction, a spam auction, or a latency auction."

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"the MEV trilemma posits that MEV will be extracted one way or another – chain designers can only choose between an explicit auction, a spam auction, or a latency auction."

https://writings.flashbots.net/introducing-rollup-boost

I meant to say “reduce their L1 *data* usage”