This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Dean Eignenmann (https://twitter.com/DeanEigenmann) and Edgar Aroutiounian (https://twitter.com/edgararout) from Project Blanc (https://projectblanc.ch/), a team building bots and developing MEV strategies. They revisit the topic of MEV, what it is and how teams like Project Blanc work to capture it. They also dive into the concept of re-orgs, accelerationism as a philosophy and get a look at what goes on in the Dark Forest.
Here are some links for the episode:
* Monsters in the Mempool with Dan Robinson from Paradigm (https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/153)
* Episode 168: Flashbots with Phil Daian and Stephane Gosselin (https://zeroknowledge.fm/168-2/)
* Episode 188: Analyzing Osmosis & Preventing MEV with Sunny and Dev (https://zeroknowledge.fm/188-2/)
* Dialectic on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dialectic_ch)
* Dialectic's website (https://dialectic.ch/)
* Blog post: Ethereum is a Dark Forest by Dan Robinson, Georgios Konstantopoulos (https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest/)
* Eth Research, Flashbots: Frontrunning the MEV crisis (https://ethresear.ch/t/flashbots-frontrunning-the-mev-crisis/8251)
* MEV… wat do? (https://pdaian.com/blog/mev-wat-do/)
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