tl;dr
- A new mev-boost feature allows validators to maximize Ethereum’s censorship resistance by building low-MEV blocks locally while still outsourcing the building of high-MEV blocks.
- Using this feature carries an opportunity cost—the price of resilience.
- As most blocks are actually low-MEV, however, forfeiting a little profit goes a long way in increasing resilience!
- This is a breakthrough in the tradeoff between maximizing MEV extraction and maximizing censorship resistance.