MEV-Boost
- Release of mev-boost v1.4.0 with notable feature of setting a minimum bid value
- Proposal to replace types from go-boost-utils with those from Attestant (WIP PR)
- Updated bug-bounty amounts
- Preparations for Capella & EIP-4844 changes
- Ongoing research on inclusion lists / crLists / partial block auctions / proposer-build pre/suffixes
- See also the mev-boost status update from 2022-11-03
Relay Ecosystem
- Post-mortem for a relay vulnerability leading to proposers falling back to local block production (Nov. 10, 2022)
- Relay API specs are now officially documented in OpenAPI format at flashbots.github.io/relay-specs (big thanks to @jtraglia)
- Draft: know-how and tips for running mev-boost-relay at scale
- relayooor.wtf relay slowly gaining some traction
- relayscan.io showing running 24h stats about relays and builders:
Flashbots Relay
- Relay releases: v0.14.1, v0.14.0, v0.13.0
- Bulk data downloads of bids and payloads
- Data API: No limit when querying bids for a given slot or block
Other
- Flashbots Transparency Report — October 2022
- Notes on Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS) by Barnabé
- Flashbots open-sourced the priority load balancer, which is used to distribute block builder submissions across multiple validation nodes.