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Shea Shea Ketsdever from flashbots_x talking about the intersection of MEV and AI !

🚨 In our latest EthResearch post, Christoph Schlegel and I suggest a modification to ePBS to mitigate the free-option problem. We propose introducing penalties and adjusting them dynamically in an online learning fashion.

New post: Sandboxing AI dev tools in VMs with Lima Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex - they all can run arbitrary code on your machine and leak sensitive data. So does npm/pip. Here's how to isolate them properly while keeping a good dev experience: metachris.dev/2025/11/sandbo…

LIVE NOW -- The Bot Economy: When AI & MEV Collide | Shea Ketsdever In our eleventh talk of the Bankless Summit, Flashbots researcher Shea Ketsdever explores the rise of the bot economy and how software is rapidly taking over digital markets. She explains why bots dominate

This talk is such a great 10,000 foot view of what have we learned from the last 5 years of order flow on permissionless blocks and argument for why these are particularly relevant insights when the machines are waking up

On 13 November 2025, the Aztec Foundation (a🇨🇭non-profit foundation) released its Aztec Token Regulatory Characterisation Report The report assesses the regulatory classification of the token and its public distribution across Switzerland, the EU, the US and the UK Let's unpack it👇

private mempools work.

BuilderNet v1.6 is out, with focus on consolidation, performance, and protocol readiness. This version ran for the Fusaka upgrade which went without a hitch! buildernet.org/blog/2025/12/0…

Gorsuch's remarks today in Trump v. Slaughter could be highly relevant for crypto policy (and financial surveillance broadly). He effectively signaled that if the court unbinds the president's power to fire heads of independent agencies then they must also remove the

truly impressive levels of pvp happening in solana’s dark forest. validators are now sandwich attacking themselves in order to frame other validators as malicious / get them unstaked h/t Ghost

We just launched the Orderflow Explorer with a Uniswap Foundation grant to trace the exact path of every DEX swap across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and Unichain. The Orderflow Explorer is built for onchain analysts & researchers to see: → Where trades originate (wallets, dApps,

~95% of dex order flow by volume is private and currently forced to pass through relays; this causes ~99% of dex order flow to be routed through three cities. Adding the ability for builders and proposers to interact directly (and trustlessly) is crucial for defi liveness and CR

Today, we’re proud to launch the Coalition for Prediction Markets (CPM), a unified voice working to preserve fair, safe, transparent, and federally supervised access to prediction markets for everyone. @kalshi Crypto.com Robinhood Coinbase 🛡️ Underdog

And over 70% of Americans agree on a key point: these markets shouldn’t be treated like gambling. news.kalshi.com/p/nationwide-p…

I think the single fact that consistently shocks me the most about crypto policy is vanishingly few Dem political staff & members of Congress know who vitalik.eth is. If I could recommend one thing to Dems, it would be to invite him to speak at a Senate Dem caucus lunch.

New on my newsletter: The NFL told a House committee that “sports-related events contracts should not be approved by the CFTC” in written testimony. Easily the most aggressive stance we have seen from a major sports league.

1/ Citadel got DeFi wrong. Today, DEF, a16z, The Digital Chamber, Orca 🌊, BlockProf, & Uniswap Foundation wrote to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in response to Citadel Securities' letter misrepresenting how DeFi technology works. Why this group? Citadel blatantly miscited us, and we feel obligated to

Using relay metadata to tag how consensus layer client diversity has shifted throughout the year. collective.flashbots.net/t/a-consensus-…

Rep. Barry Loudermilk H.R. 1181, the Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act, by Rep. Riley Moore, passed 29-23.