Inside the MIT Brothers' Ethereum Exploit – CoinDesk

Flashbots’ Hasu discusses the recent MEV Boost exploit, emphasizing the ongoing MEV challenges and the need for decentralized solutions.

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This installment of "The Protocol," hosts Brad Keoun, the founding editor of The Protocol Newsletter, and tech journalists Sam Kessler and Margaux Nijkerk interview Hasu, head of strategy at Flashbots and advisor to the Lido DAO. They discuss the recent exploit in the MEV Boost codebase, the Department of Justice's response, and the ongoing efforts to solve MEV. The conversation also covers restaking, Lido's role in the restaking ecosystem, censorship resistance, design differences between Eigenlayer and Symbiotic, and the future of Ethereum.

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Chapters

00:00 MEV Exploit and the Battle to Solve MEV

09:04 The Role of Lido in the Restaking Ecosystem

21:11 Swav: Fast, Private, and Decentralized Off-chain Computation

28:11 Restaking: Renting Economic Security

32:54 Design Differences: Eigenlayer vs. Symbiotic

39:02 StakeETH: Making Staked ETH the Dominant Asset

40:55 Addressing Censorship Resistance in Ethereum

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