Navigating the Dark Forest of Ethereum In this episode of Credible Commitments (🎧,⚡️) I chat with Michael from @QuasarBuilder. In particular we discuss - Building credibility from the public mempool - PropAMMs & Orderflow dynamics - Trust as the barrier to entry - Application controlled execution - Market structure & ePBS Timestamps (00:00) - Bitcoin mining origins (02:15) - Launching Quasar at the right time (03:14) - Building credibility from the public mempool (05:04) - Climbing the leaderboard (07:31) - Trust is king (09:22) - Different types of orderflow (12:51) - CEX-DEX arbitrage (14:59) - PropAMMs (22:13) - Sharing orderflow (25:15) - Multi-party block construction (29:15) - Focus on bringing value to users (30:51) - ACE/ Faster Blocks/ Coordination (36:31) - Ship it mentality (41:31) - Impact of AI on building products (46:27) - Touching on ePBS (53:52) - Is the public mempool beyond saving?