In this week’s episode, Anna and Brendan Farmer catch up with Ben Fisch, CEO of Espresso Systems. They explore the inner workings of the current L2 sequencing landscape and then discuss how a shared sequencing marketplace like Espresso works. They touch on how MEV plays a part in the new system, how the role of the sequencer can be separated into subroles, how all these parts will work together in such a system and much more.

Here’s some additional links for this episode:

• Episode 222: Something Brewing with Jill Gunter and Ben Fisch from Espresso Systems
• Episode 139: Findora with Benedikt Bunz and Ben Fisch
• Episode 88: Accumulators with Ben Fisch
• CAPE: Configurable Asset Privacy for Ethereum
• CAPE GitHub by Espresso Systems
• Astria Website
• The Future of MEV is SUAVE by Flashbots
• Optimism by Superchain
• Ben Fisch - Beyond the Base Layer at EthDenver
• EigenDA
• Episode 188: Analyzing Osmosis & Preventing MEV with Sunny and Dev
• Episode 216: A Dip into the Mempool & MEV with Project Blanc
• Episode 243: Dive Back into MEV with Alex Stokes and Chris Hager
• Episode 291: MEV, Mechanism Design & the Censorship Problem with Mallesh M Pai
• Aggregated Blockchains: A New Thesis by Polygon
• Based rollups—superpowers from L1 sequencing by Ethereum Research
• MEV-Boost GitHub

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