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Understanding the Ethereum Development Roadmap
Ethereum developers successfully shipped The Merge on September 15, 2022. Outside observers may consider The Merge a sort of “final destination” for the network. However, members of the Ethereum..
Now that The Merge is complete, the Ethereum community is turning its attention to the next big upgrade, Shanghai. This network upgrade has taken over a year of planning and will add the finishing..
Blocknative
January 27
Ethereum
The Importance of Client Diversity on Ethereum
Listen to this post: Your browser does not support the audio element. TL;DR: Decentralized networks rely on nodes running a diversity of open standards and applications including peer-to-peer..
Blocknative
January 26
MEV
MEV Bundle Failure: Troubleshooting Why Your Bundle...
Opportunities for extracting MEV have exploded as DeFi has transformed into a multi-billion dollar industry. This has led to an increasing number of web3 participants turning to MEV searching as a..
Blocknative
January 23
Mempool
How to Use Blocknative to Leverage MEV Strategies &...
January 2023 Update: If you are an MEV searcher, Blocknative now offers an MEV bundle RPC endpoint. Searchers can interact with the RPC endpoint at https://api.blocknative.com/v1/auction. The API..
Blair Marshall
January 20
Ethereum
Beginner’s Guide to an MEV Bot: Creating an Arbitrage...
January 2023 Update: If you are an MEV searcher, Blocknative now offers an MEV bundle RPC endpoint. Searchers can interact with the RPC endpoint at https://api.blocknative.com/v1/auction. The API..
Blair Marshall
January 17
Validators
The Pros and Cons of Connecting your Validator to...
MEV-Boost relays bridge the gap between block builders and block proposers (validators). Eventually, these relays will disappear as block builders formally become incorporated into Ethereum's..
Blocknative
January 17
Blocknative
Blocknative Wrapped: 2022 Block Building Year-End...
TL;DR: infrastructure matters. Always be optimizing.
Blocknative
December 23
Blocknative
Blocknative Raises $15M from Blockchain Capital,...
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Blocknative
December 15
MEV
The Fundamentals of Cross-Chain MEV
Web3 is increasingly multi-chain and that comes with implications for everything from data transfer, to security, to, of course, MEV. As more DEXs increase their total value locked (TVL) on multiple..
Blocknative
December 12
Transaction Simulation
Transact With Confidence: Web3 Onboard Now Supports...
Dapps can now integrate Transaction Preview into Web3 Onboard to allow users to simulate their transactions and preview the expected net-balance changes before authorizing them.
Blocknative
December 8
MEV
Ramifications of MEV in Proof-of-Stake: What’s Next?
Post-Merge, all eyes in the Ethereum ecosystem have been on the pre-chain layer. MEV, Proposer/Builder Separation, MEV-Boost relays, and block building have all been hot topics at every Ethereum..
Blocknative
November 28
Ethereum
Understanding Ethereum Validators & Staking
Now that the Ethereum Merge is complete, staking Ethereum represents the most important action a user can take toward maintaining the health and security of the network. Users anywhere in the world..
Blocknative
November 16
MEV
What is MEV?
MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) is one of the most misunderstood concepts in web3. While it may seem simple at first, there are layers of complexity underlying how it works, the actors that are..
Blocknative
November 10
Ethereum
Is the Block Building Market Doomed to Monopoly?
PART I Thoughts on Relay diversity and neutrality The Ethereum network is a manifestation of software and infrastructure, as well as people’s commitment to develop, maintain and run it. Doing so..
Sajida Zouarhi
November 3
Ethereum
What is Proposer/Builder Separation on Ethereum?
While the Ethereum Merge was significant due to introducing Proof-of-Stake, there was another major shift made possible by the upgrade that is worth highlighting. The Merge allowed the network to..
Blocknative
October 24
Ethereum
Ethereum Validator Setup Guide
Building an Ethereum Validator From Scratch Ethereum has moved from proof of work to proof of stake! Most tend to think that this means the end of mining. I like to say to colleagues “PoW Mining is..
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