Fred.⚡🤖 @Freddmannen

The agenda for MEV-SBC '26 is live! 📍 Thursday, July 30 @ Stanford This annual workshop highlights the past year of MEV research and surfaces the problems worth exploring next in cryptography, mechanism design, data, P2P, consensus, incentives, and where they intersect.

The European Parliament will vote on Chat Control tomorrow morning. Chat Control will make it possible to scan all private chats, emails and messages for “forbidden content” even before they are sent. EU leaders say it’s needed to stop child abuse material but critics argue it’s just another step toward a full surveillance state. After failing to pass the law multiple times previously, tomorrow’s vote has been rigged through procedural maneuvers to favor approval. After MEPs rejected the measure in March with 311 votes against, the largest group suddenly pushed an urgent procedure this week to force a new plenary vote on Thursday, the final session before summer recess. This revives the proposal as a second reading, meaning rejection now demands an absolute majority of 361 votes rather than a simple majority against. Proponents thus need only prevent strong opposition, inverting the usual dynamic. Timing ensures many MEPs will be absent or traveling home for the summer vacations, with non-votes effectively counting toward passage by making the high threshold harder to reach. Opponents denounce this as unprecedented and anti-democratic, bypassing the prior “no” and Parliament’s own rules. The critics claim the sudden vote ignores widespread concerns over mass surveillance without warrants, false positives flooding police with innocent content, encryption risks and treating all citizens as suspects.

🇪🇺 The EU is now for the 6th time trying to force Chat Control through which lets them scan ALL your private messages, photos and emails without a warrant Implictly showing the EU is not democratic and not about what the people of Europe want, because once a law is rejected, you just re-submit it until nobody is watching and it's passed November 2023: ❌ Chat Control is rejected June 2024: ❌ Chat Control is rejected October 2025: ❌ Chat Control is rejected November 2025: ❌ Chat Control is rejected March 2026: ❌ Chat Control is rejected July 2026: 📝 Chat Control is back Even the EU's own lawyers stated Chat Control is unconstitutional: "generalised message scanning is incompatible with Article 7 of the EU Charter" You have to wonder why the EU is so adament about reading your private chats, right?

Martin Sonneborn @MartinSonneborn

2 weeks ago

Ich habe heute versucht, die Chatkontrolle zu stoppen. Am Wochenende mussten Sibylle Berg und ich Parlamentspräsidentin Metsola schriftlich mitteilen, dass das Durchprügeln der Chatkontrolle im Eilverfahren leider gegen die Geschäftsordnung des EU-Parlaments verstößt. Während

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chains comfortably using ethereum DA: arbitrum, base, optimism, lighter, robinhood, ink, unichain, … chains using alt-DA just in case they get one trillion users: - @Ancient8_gg (celestia): <0.01 tps - @aevoxyz (eigenDA): 0.01 tps - @soon_svm (eigenDA): 0.08 tps - @nillion (celestia): 0.09 tps - @LC (avail): 0.11 tps - @OrderlyNetwork (celestia): 0.19 tps - @DeriveXYZ (celestia): 0.35 tps - @MantaNetwork (celestia): 0.39 tps - @LightLinkChain (celestia): 0.77 tps - @Ronin_Network (eigenDA): 1.40 tps - @EclipseFND (celestia): 2.85 tps - @Celo (eigenDA): 13.72 tps - @megaeth (eigenDA): 26.83 tps 🤨🤨🤨

Just posted a PropAMM-related ERC pirority fee ordering accidentally gave rise to propAMMs and revealed that onchain systems need application-aware ordering at the block builder/sequencer layer but general purpose transactions are unpredictable so the builder needs to know what the transaction is doing link in reply

Announcing Ethlabs: a non-profit R&D lab for Ethereum and ETH Our mission is to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy. The internet became global because shared protocols created a common language between networks. Private systems remained useful, but bounded. Finance is approaching a similar moment. As value, assets, and markets become digital, the world needs shared settlement infrastructure. Ethereum is uniquely positioned to become that shared base layer, the neutral foundation on which users, institutions, and agents can transact without intermediation. What we believe: • We believe credible neutrality matters. Ten years of uptime and the lowest counterparty risk. Ground that cannot be pulled away by any one country, institution, company, or person. • We believe ETH matters. The most valuable, programmable store of value. A decade of broad distribution, deep liquidity in onchain markets, and maximally trustless asset on Ethereum. • We believe DeFi matters. Markets, liquidity, credit, exchange, and coordination, open to anyone. • We believe adoption matters. Principles do not change the world until people benefit from them. We sit between two worlds: real usage from the builders at the frontier, and the protocol that has to support it. We work with users, applications, wallets, L2s, infrastructure teams, institutions, ETH holders, core devs and researchers, then turn what they actually need into protocol work, shared standards, infrastructure, and shipped products. Ethlabs is independent but Ethereum is a shared project. We are one node in a much larger network of stewards. This is the multi-node future. We have spent the better part of the past decade contributing to Ethereum core research and development. We are opinionated and transparent. We move with urgency, learn in public, and course-correct when we’re wrong. We are building a lean, talent-dense team for people who want to do the most important work of their careers: [email protected]

Quintus provides fresh insights and a wealth of technical understanding around the transaction supply chain. In particular, he educates us on the ways in which PropAMMs impact the tx supply chain on Ethereum including determinants of transaction costs, prices, quotes, volume, and trading behavior. In addition, @0xQuintus brings a fresh perspective to the topic having spent the last few years on related but different problems. I really loved the level of depth he gets into when breaking down each point in our discussion. He also brings a high level nuanced perspective that sits above the implementation details allowing him to zoom in and out of concepts throughout our conversation. Quintus has always been one of my favorite researchers, and after listening to this you may feel the same way. This was a lot of fun. Check out last week's episdoe with @katiabanina to get up to speed. Next week we'll have on yet another guest, as the series on propAMM unfolds.

apriori @apriori0x

4 weeks ago

PropAMMs are eating DeFi 🍽️ 😋✨ In this episode of Deeply Intents I chat with @0xQuintus from Flashbots ⚡️🤖. We discuss the current transaction supply chain on Ethereum and how PropAMMs fit in. In particular we discuss: - propAMMs on Ethereum - tx supply chain - CEX-DEX

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PropAMMs are eating DeFi 🍽️ 😋✨ In this episode of Deeply Intents I chat with @0xQuintus from Flashbots ⚡️🤖. We discuss the current transaction supply chain on Ethereum and how PropAMMs fit in. In particular we discuss: - propAMMs on Ethereum - tx supply chain - CEX-DEX arbitrage - orderflow segmentation - takers and spoofing - ETH price discovery Timestamps 0:00 - Revisiting Private Orderflow research 3:12 - A machine that solves problems 8:00 - Tx supply chain from the user's perspective 11:55 - Blockchains have multiple sources of liquidity 16:47 - Market Makers, AMMs, and liquidity 19:26 - CEX-DEX arbitrage 21:01 - Priority fee ordered chains 22:52 - Prop AMMs solve 2 problems that AMMs had 25:37 - The "Prop" in "Prop AMMs" 27:19 - Flow segmentation that happens 29:14 - Why do market makers prefer prop AMMs? 35:49 - How pAMMs impact the market micro structure 37:58 - Barriers to entry in block building 39:03 - Talking about takers and spoofing 40:53 - ETH price discovery on Ethereum 43:29 - How does pre-trade privacy impact execution 45:01 - Closed source is silly 46:34 - Onchain contracts as order types 47:15 - Closing thoughts on PropAMMs & Ethereum

PropAMMs are eating DeFi New Deeply Intents tomorrow with @0xQuintus

apriori @apriori0x

a month ago

Prop AMMs are changing DeFi on Ethereum. From @titanbuilderxyz documentation: "A Proprietary AMM (PropAMM [pAMM]) is an onchain pool in which prices are continuously updated by a market maker. Instead of relying on a passive inventory curve, makers stream signed quote updates

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@brendanpmalone @0xYager @KhurramDara @jonfinkisaksen Amazing, best of luck guys! @0xYager ⚡️

How will ePBS reshape Ethereum’s block-building landscape? We study this in our new paper on Competing Auctions In Intermediated Markets: arxiv.org/abs/2606.06633 Joint work with Minghao Pan and Christoph Schlegel.

Fred.⚡🤖 @Freddmannen

a month ago

𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙥𝙖𝙮𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙨 by Christoph Schlegel analyzes how ePBS changes Ethereum block auctions with trustless in-protocol payments constraining relay design and shifting builder competition toward sealed first-price bidding collective.flashbots.net/t/trustless-pa…

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... There's more coming. Check the forum to stay in the loop ⚡ collective.flashbots.net

𝙏𝙀𝙀 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 by @socrates1024 detailing the state of TEEs, private inference, and hardware at IC3 Blockchain Camp 2026: x.com/initc3org/stat…

IC3 @initc3org

a month ago

2026 IC3 Blockchain Camp — Day 3 Recap: Highlights from @socrates1024 (Teleport, FlashbotsX, IC3) latest presentation on the state of TEEs, private inference, and hardware:

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𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙝𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙛𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙁𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜: - Block building economics - Arbitrage on high-throughput blockchains - Crypto-AI intersections - Block auctions under ePBS ...and more 👇

Super excited for the Arc chain vision! In many ways it’s the improved spiritual next generation version of the suave geth TEE coprocessor we were working on at flashbots ~2 years ago!

Chris Ries @chrisries

a month ago

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