Dean Eigenmann, a Miner Extractable Value (MEV) searcher, joins The Gwart Show to give an insiders look into the MeV landscape, strategies, decentralization challenges, and regulatory concerns. He discusses key differences between Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain, DeFi's future, L2 developments, and offers a critique of Bitcoin.

00:00:00 Start00:01:21 Dean intro00:02:14 MEV = Oligopoly00:03:18 Builder centralization on ETH00:04:34 PBS design00:05:51 Enshrined PBS00:07:31 Atomic strategies & inventory risk00:09:00 Censorship00:10:27 Censorship & geographic distribution00:12:44 MEV on BSC00:13:41 MEV developer crossover00:13:58 What chains do they do?00:14:47 MEV on Solana00:15:41 Faster chain = less MEV?00:16:44 MEV on L2's?00:17:45 Shared sequencing00:20:04 Intents00:22:15 Operating at a loss00:23:51 Amm execution00:24:50 Define MEV?00:25:12 Is sandwiching bad still?00:26:56 Private relays00:28:03 Can you prevent private relays?00:29:09 Is there a way to promote geographic distribution?00:30:47 Is MEV like high feq trading?00:32:04 Timing games00:33:10 SEP of BSC00:33:36 MEV searchers on the downlow00:35:37 Legal aspects of MEV00:36:29 Sandwiching illegal?00:39:47 Regulating builders00:40:30 OFAC transactions00:41:40 Encrypted mempools00:43:10 Ideology00:45:14 What's missing00:45:56 Restaking00:46:41 Rollups good?00:47:38 Bullish L2's?00:49:04 ETH L1 innovation00:49:55 Thoughts on Solana?00:50:55 BSC happenings?00:52:29 Bitcoin sucks

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