News to share: Blocknative team has joined Deloitte. More on the transition, including the timeline for sunsetting APIs:

It’s live! Capture the Gap is now live at game.gas.network > Push fresh gas data onchain. > Earn points for contributing to an onchain public good. > Climb the leaderboard and unlock new tiers. 🏆

GM frens! Please say hello to Gas Network ⛽️🛜 by @Blocknative: a new distributed gas oracle protocol designed to bring clarity (and sanity) to transaction pricing across all chains. Ready to ditch the gas fee guesswork? 🧵1/10

It's been one year since The Merge. And in that time, there have been significant advancements that have redefined the @Ethereum ecosystem w/ both positive and negative impacts on the network, its end-users, and the critical actors in the MEV supply chain. Blocknative PM @sajidazouarhi breaks down some of the key lessons we've learned this past year, including: ✅The pursuit of maximum profits fuels centralization at the core of the network. ✅Vertically integrated Searcher/Builders have proven positive economics, while credibly neutral Builders struggle to find margin and hence revenue/profitability. ✅MEV-Boost Relay operations are effectively 100% risk, 0% reward. ✅Based on the latest in ePBS research, trusted third-party Relays at the core of the network will be a fact of life for the foreseeable future. ✅Sanctions – and OFAC SDN specifically – played an unexpected role in shaping staking and PBS landscape. ✅Promises of ‘protecting’ users from the adverse effects of MEV remain to be fully proven out. Check out the full post for a deep dive 👇 blocknative.com/blog/one-yea…

Feeling FOMO from missing our presentation on Latency Wars yesterday? Luckily we recorded it 🤓 Learn more about the constant fight for lower latency and the critical nuances and strategies used in the PBS ecosystem to reduce latency. blocknative.com/latency-wars…

1/14 A new mental model to help wrap your mind around #ERC4337: 4337 adds a new “user intent layer” upstream/on top of the existing transaction flow. The big unlock (for me at least): working backwards from the current Ethereum EOA model. 🧵

Absolutely thrilled to continue backing and working closely with the entire Blocknative team From the co-founders to the most recent hires, this is a truly world class team that keeps the best interests of Ethereum (and crypto more broadly) at the core of what they do

1/ Couldn’t be happier to share that our team at @Blocknative has closed an additional $15M financing to build blocks for Ethereum mainnet. As co-founder & CEO, it is both humbling and satisfying to see it all come together 4.5 years into our journey. 🧵👇 fortune.com/crypto/2022/12/1…

MEV is an unexpected black hole in the ethereum security budget and PBS is our best shot at mitigating its effects. I'm excited to announce that @blocknative we're helping slay the beast by open sourcing our relay implementation dreamboat🛳️ github.com/blocknative/dream…

Happy to announce $12 million in new Series A financing, enabling us to scale our core transaction monitoring infrastructure as well as collaborate deeply with an incredible investor roster of top Web3 operators and thought-leaders. Read on for more, or blocknative.com/blog/series-…

“Something wicked this way comes.” Simulation Platform is a _monster_ release from our team and an important step forward in leveling the playing field across the Ethereum ecosystem. For clarity, we are simulating the entire mempool in *real-time*. 🛳⛴🚢

In our latest post, @ChrisMeisl covers the fundamentals of #Ethereum transaction simulation — and how to see inside pending internal transactions. blocknative.com/blog/what-is…

The mempool is a dark forest It's filled with money-hungry apex predators But it doesn't have to be scary We just need the tools & resources to navigate it @mcutler shares his knowledge w/ the Bankless Nation Let's explore the dark forest: bankless.substack.com/p/expl…

For the first official episode of Proof-of-Usability, I’m re-releasing @blocknative @mcutler’s fantastic chat from back in March. anchor.fm/z-herring/episodes… Why should you listen to Matt about building products people want? Uh, because he’s a boss. Literally.

🚨 Mempool Congestion Alert 🚨 We are seeing sustained high rates of transaction eviction over the past several days. For more on the impact of transaction eviction, see our Black Thursday post: blog.blocknative.com/blog/me…

🚨 A must-read post by @austinrobertsiv on the @open_relay DoS attacks. Read this series to understand: 🔨 how the Denial of Service attack occurred 🔒 how Blocknative helped to secure their infrastructure 💭 thoughts on ethical hacking hubs.ly/H0tthwm0

1/14 Just published: “Evidence of Mempool Manipulation on Black Thursday: Hammerbots, Mempool Compression, and Spontaneous Stuck Transactions” blog.blocknative.com/blog/me… ⬇️

Mempool Archive Findings: 1⃣ We detected the TX in all of our mempools (EU, US, & Asia) ~5 sec. (2 blocks) before it was confirmed 2⃣ All of our regions saw the tx within ~1.5 sec. of each other - typical of propagation latency Source data: hubs.ly/H0rmCLS0