July 24, 2024

The Surprising Truth About Self-Built Blocks

32 minutes

On Ep. 37 of Infinite Jungle, Christine chats with Matt Cutler, CEO and Co-Founder of Blocknative, about base fee volatility.

Show note links:

Matt’s Modular Summit presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqJ5oicJOME&t=15074s [3:57:29-4:12:21]

Blocknative blog post on base fee volatility: https://www.blocknative.com/blog/how-self-built-blocks-unintentionally-introduce-base-fee-volatility

Ethernow, Ethereum Mempool Explorer: https://www.ethernow.xyz/mempool/all

Mallesh Pai and Max Resnick paper on fee mechanism design: https://www.mechanism.org/spec/04

Mike Neuder and Max Resnick on MEV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wbTWpf7Yzg

This episode was recorded on Friday, July 19, 2024.

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