MEV Roast 13 Agenda - The Blockspace Bazaar: Past, Present and Future

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Date: Thursday, Mar 25
Time: 11am ET / 8am PT / 3pm UTC / 11pm China Standard Time
Roast Master: Vitalik @vbuterin

MEV Roast is a monthly tradition from the MEV Pi-rate Ship, a neutral, chain-agnostic, interdisciplinary research collective that supports MEV-related theoretical and empirical research.

Conference Link | Flashbots Calendar | Slides

Part 0: Introduction & Memes (10min)

• MEV 4D Chess in the Blockspace Bazaar: ETH1, L2s & ETH2...
  • Notes from Optimism (WIP): Sequencer MEV Extraction
  • Notes from Arbitrium (WIP): MEV & Arbitrum
  • Notes from Flashbots & Prysmatic Labs: ETH2, MEV & Flashbots

Part 1. Treasure Maps (60min)
Each Roast we will invite MEV Ship research collective members to present insights from MEV-related research they are working on or interesting early stage proposals for community feedback.

Presentation 1: Ethereum block space market structure
- Navigator: Leo Zhang & Georgios Konstantopoulos Slides | Post (20min)
Roast Master (20min):
- Q1: How do you expect a switch to PoS would change the MEV landscape? PoS has predictable block times, proposers can see when they will be able to create blocks, and a proposer can try to create a block multiple times before they propose it. How would MEV extraction have to adapt?
- Q2: How would MEV extraction look like in a world with sharding or rollups, where instead of all transactions passing through a single proposer you have different proposers active in different "domains" at the same time?

Presentation 2: A survey of auction mechanisms for potential MEV auction designs
- Navigator: Surya Bakshi & Alejo Salles Slides (15min)
Presentation 3: A seal-bid MEV auction design: MEV-sgx
- Navigator: Robert Miller & Stephane Gosselin Slides (15min)
Roast Master (20min):
- Q3: Are there alternatives to trusted hardware for ensuring privacy and fairness?

Part 2. Explorations (20min)

• Using flashbots as a backdoor path to account abstraction [Issue Using flashbots as a backdoor path to account abstraction #24 ]
• Related EIPs:
  • EIP-2938: Account Abstraction
  • EIP-3074: AUTH and AUTHCALL opcodes

More Resources:
Past MEV Roasts recaps | MEV Research Vault