avi
@avichalp.eth
nobody talked about MEV before 2021 and then suddenly it became the most important thing in crypto
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Roberto Bayardo 🎩
@bayardo.eth
Mostly because researcher geeks could write cool papers about it?
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avi
@avichalp.eth
that and i believe searchers started to make some money
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Roberto Bayardo 🎩
@bayardo.eth
True. Being a little tongue in cheek because of the latest wave of papers I see freaking out over priority ordering by L2s. There are like 1000 other things far more important to worry about.
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avi
@avichalp.eth
what are some other top burning issues in your opinion?
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Roberto Bayardo 🎩
@bayardo.eth
Depends on your focus area I guess. When I was on Base it was EVM scaling. There's no good reason EVM chains (especially L2s) can't perform in the same league as Solana. Why spend multiple years on reducing L2 MEV by .69% when you can make an EMV chain do 1000+ txs per second?
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Roberto Bayardo 🎩
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To elaborate a bit, before I moved on from Base, we were curious about Unichain's work. I argued the TEE aspects of Unichain were (mostly a waste of time & resources. Flashblocks however made a ton of sense, and Base is close to launching it (already on testnet as I understand). https://blog.uniswap.org/rollup-boost-is-live-on-unichain
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Roberto Bayardo 🎩
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And no flashblocks are not the same as Solana "shreds". Flashblocks are genuine precommitments, though to be fair they are centralized precommitments. L2s get shit for being "centralized" but their limited centralization can provide real user benefits with only a sliver of additional trust.
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avi
@avichalp.eth
thanks for sharing!
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