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.

00:00:00 Start

00:01:21 Dean intro

00:02:14 MEV = Oligopoly

00:03:18 Builder centralization on ETH

00:04:34 PBS design

00:05:51 Enshrined PBS

00:07:31 Atomic strategies & inventory risk

00:09:00 Censorship

00:10:27 Censorship & geographic distribution

00:12:44 MEV on BSC

00:13:41 MEV developer crossover

00:13:58 What chains do they do?

00:14:47 MEV on Solana

00:15:41 Faster chain = less MEV?

00:16:44 MEV on L2's?

00:17:45 Shared sequencing

00:20:04 Intents

00:22:15 Operating at a loss

00:23:51 Amm execution

00:24:50 Define MEV?

00:25:12 Is sandwiching bad still?

00:26:56 Private relays

00:28:03 Can you prevent private relays?

00:29:09 Is there a way to promote geographic distribution?

00:30:47 Is MEV like high feq trading?

00:32:04 Timing games

00:33:10 SEP of BSC

00:33:36 MEV searchers on the downlow

00:35:37 Legal aspects of MEV

00:36:29 Sandwiching illegal?

00:39:47 Regulating builders

00:40:30 OFAC transactions

00:41:40 Encrypted mempools

00:43:10 Ideology

00:45:14 What's missing

00:45:56 Restaking

00:46:41 Rollups good?

00:47:38 Bullish L2's?

00:49:04 ETH L1 innovation

00:49:55 Thoughts on Solana?

00:50:55 BSC happenings?

00:52:29 Bitcoin sucks

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