# The Cost of Resilience

**URL:** https://collective.flashbots.net/t/the-cost-of-resilience/756
**Category:** Research
**Tags:** mev-boost, writings
**Created:** [November 22, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/the-cost-of-resilience/756 "2022-11-22T23:05:23Z")
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### Author: ![fiiiu](https://collective.flashbots.net/user_avatar/collective.flashbots.net/fiiiu/32/9_2.png) [@fiiiu](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/fiiiu)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 11:05pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/the-cost-of-resilience/756/1 "2022-11-22T23:05:23Z")

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Validators can significantly help increase Ethereum’s resilience by foregoing only a small amount of profit—check out our new [post](https://writings.flashbots.net/the-cost-of-resilience) on the writings website!

Written in collaboration with @elainehu and @Hasu 🙂

_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.

Leave us your thoughts!