November 16, 2022, 11:26AM EST
• 17 min read
Quick Take
- Flashbots was established in 2020 to democratize access to MEV revenue, bring transparency to MEV activity and redistribute MEV revenue
- Flashbots currently has three product verticals: (1) Flashbots Auction (2) Flashbots Protect RPC and (3) Flashbots Data – in PoS Ethereum, the Flashbots Auction is built on MEV-Boost, an implementation of proposer-builder separation for Ethereum
- With 64.3% total block market share and 76.3% MEV-Boosted block market share (last 14 days based on mevboost.pics), Flashbots is a clear winner among the MEV-Boost relayers
- Flashbots’ decision regarding Tornado Cash transactions has drawn criticism within the Ethereum community – Flashbot’s dominance of the MEV and block production market could threaten Ethereum’s base layer neutrality by enabling censorship on the blockchain
- In October 2022, Flashbots announced an upgrade called SUAVE (Single Unifying Auctions for Value Expression) to address censorship resistance and decentralization concerns
Source: https://www.theblockresearch.com/flashbots-company-intelligence-186580?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss