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

Cryptosat and Shutter are exploring a collaboration to enhance blockchain security by placing Shutter Keyper nodes on Cryptosat's satellites and merging the cryptographic and orbital security to protect against threats such as Miner Extractable Value (MEV) exploits. While this is just an idea at this stage, we think

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're proud to announce that Shutter Governance is integrated and usable now for all DAOs using Snapshot! By implementing Shutter Governance, Snapshot is now bringing shielded voting to Ethereum in the form of partial privacy using threshold encryption. The Shutter team has been working closely with the team

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