PBS Series EP1: Block Builder Market w/ Burak Öz

Indexed Podcast

Today we’re joined by Burak Öz, Ph.D. Candidate at Technical University of Munich, 2023 & @thelatestindefi research fellow. In this episode we discuss:

• Research Paper deep-dive: Who Wins Ethereum Block Building Auction?”
• MEV pipeline
• Beaverbuild, Rsync, Titan
• MEV Boost Decomposition
• Transaction Label Taxonomy
• Valuable Order Flow
• Exclusive Providers
• Block packing
• Exclusive Order Flow Access
• Research focuses

And much more—enjoy!

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Links:
Research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13931
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Chapters:

(00:00) Introduction

(07:09) Research Paper deep-dive: Who Wins Ethereum Block Building Auction?”

(13:14) MEV pipeline

(24:46) Beaverbuild, Rsync, Titan

(34:45) MEV Boost Decomposition

(42:11) Transaction Label Taxonomy

(53:06) Valuable Order Flow

(1:08:01) Exclusive Providers

(1:10:13) Block packing

(1:24:37) Exclusive Order Flow Access

(1:34:37) Research focuses

(1:38:34) ‘The Vitalik Surpriser’

(1:40:28) Outro

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