MEV Roast 10 Agenda

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MEV Ship Treasure Map Roast X
Date: Thursday, Jan 14
Time: 11:30am EST / 8:30am PST / 4:30pm UTC / 12:30am China Standard Time

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1. Flashbots Flash News Updates (30min)
   Flashbots stewards will make a succinct presentation on the progress.

• Organization update (5min):
  • Journey of Flashbots: research & engineering timeline
• Engineering update (20min):
  • Flashbots Alpha release: MEV-geth & MEV-relay
  • How to write a Flashbots MEV searcher: A tour of Flashbots searcher tooling (WIP)
  • Saving Kitties stuck in Merkle trees with Flashbots: the first ever white hat rescue of NFTs

2. MEV Ship Community Presentation & QA (20min)
   Each Roast we will invite MEV Ship research collective members to present MEV-related projects they are working on or interesting early stage proposals for community feedback.

• Presenting project: B.protocol
• Presenters: Yaron Velner (slides)
• Description: Insights from designing and implementing a decentralized backstop liquidity protocol.

3. MEV Roast (40 min)
   Each Roast we will invite an ecosystem stakeholder on-board to the Roast to provide constructive criticism on Flashbots' work.

• Roast Master of the week: Tom Schmidt (in absentia)
• Roast Questions:
  Q1. In every problem space, there are known unknowns and unknown unknowns. Flashbots is currently uncovering the known unknowns around MEV. How large do you anticipate the unknown unknowns are in relation to the known?
  Q2. In a potential future world where the majority of economic activity on Ethereum moves to an L2 w/ built-in sequencing, what’s the role of generalized L1 MEV tools?
  Q3. Should protocols and their users have rights to protocol-specific MEV / should a portion of MEV go back to users or the DAO? If so, how might such a mechanism work?
  Q4. In some ways, MEV resembles something like climate change: a looming existential collective action problem, but with negative effects that are too difficult to feel on an individual or local level. What’s the most important thing we need to do to get people to care?