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Thanks to @felipeargento from Cartesi for feedback and input on this blog post! Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) is gaining an advantage by positioning transactions strategically in a blockchain block. It's significant in areas like high-frequency trading and DeFi, affecting profits and trade outcomes. The Cartesi Virtual Machine introduces

Today marks a significant chapter in the progress of our grant by the Optimism Collective. We are proud to announce the completion of all deliverables and milestones in our project to research and evaluate an encrypted mempool for the OP Stack. This achievement is not just a technical feat; it&

We are thrilled to announce that the first two deliverables of our OP Grant have been finished. The approved proposal will tackle the challenges of front-running and Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) within the decentralized landscape. With the first two deliverables completed, we are on our way toward integration of a

This blog post provides an overview of the role and importance of Keypers within the Shutter Network. It describes the responsibilities of Keypers, who are crucial to maintaining the network's security through the generation of encryption and decryption keys. Keypers are crucial to the Shutter Network's

Shutter protoDAO ensures decentralization of the Keyper set and provides a way for new Keypers to apply to join. We are thrilled to announce the Shutter protoDAO to the public. The primary purpose of the protoDAO is to select and manage a decentralized Keyper set. In this post, we will

We had the amazing opportunity to be organizing MEV-Day together with Flashbots and CoW Protocol, with the help of the Ethereum Foundation, during the Devconnect week in Amsterdam this year. MEV-Day was a one-day event dedicated to Maximal Extractable Value (MEV). The program consisted of panels, talks, and workshops by

We’re announcing Rolling Shutter to bring MEV protection to rollups on Ethereum. It builds upon our previous efforts of using threshold encryption to combat front running and malicious MEV. However, it implements the DKG scheme directly into L2/rollup sequencer mechanisms in order to protect all dapps deployed on

Today, we're excited to announce Shutter Governance, a tool for governance platforms to introduce shielded voting for their users. It uses threshold encryption and is designed to fix issues with misbehavior, voter apathy, and voting incentive systems. Combating front running and malicious Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) remains our

In the previous blog post, I explained some basics about maximal extractable value (MEV), Ethereum transactions, and the mempool. In that post, you learned how miners could manipulate transactions. In this blog post, I'll walk you through three different types of front running attacks. It is not the