🚀 Contender v0.3.0 is out! Here’s what’s new in our Ethereum stress-testing toolkit:🧵

binji Sam Altman World ZK doesn't help with ML inference (models too large to run inference in ZK), TEEs do though, also private shared state in MPC for private identity data, I recommend watching this video by TACEO: youtube.com/watch?v=HPDWav…

have you made a swap on Flaunch today? see lightning fast transactions on Flaunch, powered by Flashblocks on 🟦

As most of CT knows, Flashblocks launched on Base Mainnet 3 days ago. I wanted to share 2 quick learnings after helping build out this feature as one of the engineers:

Viem 2.33 introduces initial support for Flashblocks as a first-class citizen! Try it out in Viem or Wagmi by importing a chain that supports preconfirmations – starting with `basePreconf` + `baseSepoliaPreconf`. Then observe sub-200ms transaction confirmation times. 🫡

my favorite part of this is that you can see not just the subslot ordering, but also the shift in the full block. here for example, the transaction at index 122 here would have been ToB and skewed everyone else's execution.

Work on P2P protocols and will be at SBC? Hmu, cooking up a fun gathering 🧑‍🍳🌍📡

Here is deep dive on the methodology we developed for detecting cross-chain arbitrages in our recent paper. In this post, we detail our approach, which utilizes data from Allium, and discuss our findings while attempting to reimplement it using Dune. collective.flashbots.net/t/detecting-cr…

Contender is a tool for sending lots of Ethereum transactions — but did you know you can plug in custom logic too? We used it to build a cross-chain tester that sends messages between two chains. Here’s how it works: Normally, when you send a tx with Contender, that’s it. But

Actively fighting a compromised Telegram right now, please don't trust any messages from me without security question first. I have access but I can't remove attacker from my active sessions.

I partnered with dataalways.eth ⚡️🤖 to provide our MEV perspective on the Glamsterdam upgrade. TLDR: While BALs are uncontroversially good for the EL, there is no standout candidate for the CL. Every option has clear pros & cons, some of which surprised us. collective.flashbots.net/t/an-mev-persp…

My account is officially unrecoverable, please remove me from all chats we are in and delete history ASAP

we just enabled flashblocks on our Base bundlers mean user operation inclusion time went from 2.35s -> 465ms that's an over 80% decrease, and we'll be optimizing it even more over the coming weeks if you want lightning-fast smart accounts and transactions, use Pimlico ❤️

BuilderNet is quietly paying over a $1m/month in refunds to users, and is nearing 1000 ETH in refunds overall Excited for those numbers to keep scaling

The Agenda for MEV-SBC'25 is live! 📍Aug 7 @ Berkeley This annual workshop highlights MEV research and talks to illuminate a new round of problems for the community to explore in cryptography, mechanism design, data, consensus, incentives, and their intersections