Aspiring erudite writing about MEV, block chain architecture, and social consensus among other salient topics.

Sharding the Builder
One of the fundamental problems of Proposer Builder separation is the centralized role played by the Builder. This creates 3 tradeoffs (possibly more):Regulatory choke-pointBuilder consolidationVertical integration of supply chainProposal Can we conceive of a decentralized block builder? Conjecture: considering Near’s Nightshade design, loosely, for inspiration we can conceive of a decentralized builder design where multiple builders compete to propose a chunk or a portion of the execution bl...

Sharding the Builder
One of the fundamental problems of Proposer Builder separation is the centralized role played by the Builder. This creates 3 tradeoffs (possibly more):Regulatory choke-pointBuilder consolidationVertical integration of supply chainProposal Can we conceive of a decentralized block builder? Conjecture: considering Near’s Nightshade design, loosely, for inspiration we can conceive of a decentralized builder design where multiple builders compete to propose a chunk or a portion of the execution bl...