In today's episode Dan and Sam are joined by Elipsis Labs Co-Founder Eugene. Today they dive into the DEX & AMM innovation in DeFi & Phoenix's unique approach in the Solana Ecosystem. They also discuss the MEV differences in Solana & Ethereum and bringing price discovery on-chain.

As usual the team is also joined by two blockworks research analysts, Westie & Ren. Today they cover the Curve exploit, Base chain meme coin season, MakerDAO DAI savings rate, Lido dual governance token, and much more!

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:49) Curve Exploit

(18:36) MakerDAO DAI Savings Rate

(24:02) Lido Dual Token Governance

(28:34) Coinbase Base L2 Meme Coin Season

(34:35) “Atom Accelerator Ad”

(35:46) Interview Start: Eugene

(35:55) Phoenix DEX Overview

(43:50) CLOB vs AMM

(48:21) Solana MEV

(57:34) On-chain Price Discovery

(1:11:16) MEV Umbra Research

(1:15:40) Firedancer Impact on Phoenix

(1:19:23) RWA Use Case

(1:21:58) View on Decentralized Stable Coins 

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Resources

Umbra research on MEV

https://twitter.com/UmbraResearch

https://www.umbraresearch.xyz/writings/mev-on-solana

Elipsis Labs

https://ellipsislabs.xyz/

Phoenix DEX

https://twitter.com/ellipsis_labs/status/1630695716048760832

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