Ethereum Inclusion Lists and Censorship Resistance
How Ethereum's inclusion list auction design limits builder censorship power, with concrete mechanics and honest caveats about what it can and can't fix.
№ 002DeFiMEV: Public Mempools vs Private Transaction Relays
Your transaction's route, public mempool or private relay, determines who can extract value from it and how much. The mechanics, the tradeoffs, the gaps.
№ 003EthereumEthereum Inclusion Lists and Builder Censorship
Inclusion lists let validators force transactions into blocks without ending builder specialization. The mechanism, its limits, and what it changes in practice.
№ 004EthereumEthereum Proposer Boost: Stopping Short-Range Reorg Attacks
Proposer boost adds a 40% committee-weight bonus to timely blocks, raising the cost of short-range reorg attacks above rational MEV profit thresholds.
№ 005DeFiZero Slippage Tolerance Starves Sandwich Bots
Zero slippage tolerance forces sandwich bots into guaranteed losses, the mechanics of amountOutMinimum explain exactly why the attack collapses.
№ 006EthereumEthereum Proposer-Builder Separation Explained
PBS splits block building from block proposing, reshaping MEV incentives, validator yields, and where ordering power actually concentrates.
№ 007DeFiHow DEXs Handle Conflicting Transactions in One Block
Two swaps hit the same liquidity pool in the same block. Here's the exact mechanic that decides which one wins, and what it costs the loser.
№ 008AnalysisHow MEV Changes Validator Incentives in Proof-of-Stake
MEV reshapes what validators actually optimize for in PoS systems. Here's the concrete mechanics, the real tradeoffs, and what most guides skip.