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Tech

Censored Ethereum Blocks Hit the 51% Threshold Over the Past 24 Hours

Censorship has been a growing concern within the Ethereum ecosystem, especially since the advent of MEV-Boost after the Merge.

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Tech

Flashbots Reveals New Version of Its Key Ethereum Software

Development of SUAVE, as the project is codenamed, has been going on for a year.

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Tech

What’s Going On With Ethereum’s MEV-Boost?

Flashbots' block relayers continue to dominate the Ethereum validator ecosystem. And with them, censorship continues to grow.

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Learn

What Is MEV, aka Maximal Extractable Value?

Miners and validators have found ways to profit off of pending transactions by including, excluding or reordering transactions in any block they mine.

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Tech

Can Ethereum Out-Engineer the Censors by 'Shuttering' the Beacon Chain?

Ethereum’s developers are realizing censorship is not a problem that can just be coded away.

As the threat of censorship looms, a proposal to "shutter" Ethereum's Beacon Chain is getting some traction. (Julita/Pixabay)

Tech

As Censorship on Ethereum Begins, Could This Open-Sourced Code Help Counter It?

Flashbots' accelerated code release comes amid U.S. regulatory crackdown on crypto mixer Tornado Cash for sanctions violations.

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Eden Network Raises $17.4M to Shield Ethereum Users From Malicious Miners

Priority transaction network Eden has reportedly raised $17.4 million in a seed funding round led by Multicoin Capital that will help the project fight the menace of miner extractable value (MEV) or the measure of profits miners can make by capriciously reordering transactions within blocks they produce.

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Markets

How to Fix Ethereum’s MEV Problem and Give Traders the Best Price

MEV is a growing problem for Ethereum, but it can be mitigated through careful protocol design and economic theory.

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Tech

Valid Points: The Problem With MEV on Ethereum

Will the transition to proof-of-stake come soon enough?

The upgrade to PoS as a defense does little to rescue the current situation.

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