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?