Stoked to announce an Agentic Markets workshop Agentic Markets Workshop @ ICML 2024 at #ICML 2024! ICML Conference

📇 Details: sites.google.com/view/amw-2024/…
✏️ Call for papers: due May 17th
📅 Conference: July 26/27th

featuring GOAT speakers like Tuomas Sandholm, Gillian Hadfield, Ian Gemp Constantinos Daskalakis…

cex-dex mev bot pnl over 41,4k blocks (≈6 days)

block range: 18,558,189 -> 18,599,589

New chain launched
Chain gets usage
Highly motivated users find ways to game the chain’s inner workings
Chain struggles
Chain ships updates

It’s a story as old as crypto. The only chains that don’t have some hang up at some point are those without usage.

10k refunds

1m protected users

Fastest inclusion on the market

No sandwiches

There is no second best

protect.flashbots.net for a UI or just use rpc.flashbots.net/fast

nyc literally shaking with excitement as the latest ePBS design hits the streets

uh, since when does NYC have earthquakes?

Fun searching strategy on L1 that is dependent on a clever L2 -> L1 message.

the problem is not 'there's not enough people that know how the networking / MEV stack work'

the problem is that the loud voices on twitter don't know how *anything* works (beyond JS 101?) and the people doing the work are guess what? actually working to triage & fix!

do better

A few late night thoughts in light of the recent Bloxroute/Lighthouse kerfuffle:

(TLDR, closed source MEV software matters about as much to Ethereum as open source client software and this isn’t good.)

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This post-mortem misrepresents the issue as a Lighthouse p2p bug, when in fact it was caused by an untested interaction between Bloxroute's centralised 'block distribution network' (BDN) and Lighthouse's HTTP API

Here's an account from my perspective

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Do I have any followers that have expertise with Intel's TDX?

The 'inscription test': assuming that what can be used for inscriptions will be and testing it under huge, seemingly irrational load to see what breaks.

A necessary part of testing every fork and feature.