Dean Eigenmann, a Miner Extractable Value (MEV) searcher, joins The Gwart Show to give an insiders look into the MeV landscape, strategies, decentralization challenges, and regulatory concerns. He discusses key differences between Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain, DeFi's future, L2 developments, and offers a critique of Bitcoin.

00:00 Start
01:23 Dean intro
02:16 MEV = Oligopoly
03:19 Builder centralization on ETH
04:36 PBS design
05:53 Enshrined PBS
07:32 Atomic strategies & inventory risk
09:02 Censorship
10:29 Censorship & geographic distribution
12:46 MEV on BSC
13:43 MEV developer crossover
13:59 What chains do they do?
14:49 MEV on Solana
15:42 Faster chain = less MEV?
16:46 MEV on L2's?
17:46 Shared sequencing
20:06 Intents
22:17 Operating at a loss
23:52 AMM execution
24:52 Define MEV?
25:13 Is sandwiching bad still?
26:57 Private relays
28:05 Can you prevent private relays?
29:11 Is there a way to promote geographic distribution?
30:48 Is MEV like High feq trading?
32:06 Timing games
33:12 SEP of BSC
33:38 MEV searchers on the downlow
35:39 Legal aspects of MEV
36:30 Sandwiching illegal?
39:49 Regulating builders
40:31 OFAC transactions
41:41 Encrypted mempools
43:11 Ideology
45:15 What's missing
45:58 Restaking
46:42 Rollups good?
47:39 Bullish L2's?
49:06 ETH L1 innovation
49:57 Thoughts on Solana?
50:56 BSC happenings?
52:31 Bitcoin sucks

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