sweet robots galore

We owe it to the crypto movement—and to ourselves—to remember why crypto exists. Not to appease governments, but to hold them accountable. Not to win political favor, but to render such favor unnecessary. Not to build brands, but to build freedom.

Introducing Rollup-Boost Rollup-Boost is a verifiable block-building platform for rollups, enabled by TEEs. It is powering the new Unichain with near-instant transactions, strong user guarantees, and MEV internalization for the next generation of Defi apps.

As a performance artist 🎭🎨, I am so psyched to bring the trickster spirit back to crypto with @Azuki For the first magic trick, we created one-time-programs for web2 accounts with TEEs ( https://t.co/r54YjMHTsz, live on Base), and turns out you can play fun social games on top

in the mev-geth days, everyone trusted everyone. with mev-boost, we removed the trust in the proposers, enabling solo stakers to join the game. today, we no longer need to trust bottom of block arb searchers, bringing us one step closer to a fully trustless mev ecosystem.

How to get rid of MEV-Boost relays TEE-Boost: A change to MEV-Boost that lets proposers disintermediate the relay and fetch blocks directly from builders running in Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs).

1/ Introducing gas refunds from Flashbots — the open, permissionless alternative to proprietary orderflow deals. As of July 8th, gas refunds are available on all transactions sent to Flashbots Protect and Builder. The refund rule is open source and executed securely in TEEs.

We've open-sourced rbuilder - our new, blazingly fast Ethereum MEV-Boost block builder. It's written in Rust, designed to work with Reth and we've been running in production at Flashbots for several months now! Come join us in building it. https://t.co/dnoY4uElhg

We're looking for an ✨Astro-Pirate-Punk Senior Software Engineer✨ who can see problems from all angles (performance, privacy, incentives, fault tolerance) to help us revolutionize the interface to blockchains. https://t.co/5Mm7EkxeS2

Stoked to announce an Agentic Markets workshop @agenticmarkets at #ICML 2024! @icmlconf 📇 Details: https://t.co/wOdgjzmXOb ✏️ Call for papers: due May 17th 📅 Conference: July 26/27th featuring GOAT speakers like Tuomas Sandholm, Gillian Hadfield, @drimgemp @KonstDaskalakis

thrilled about our strategy lead also sharing his strategy hobby with others! 😅

come work with the GOAT 👀

on for another hour, join us on gather town :)

⚡️🤖Announcing the first FRP Unconference🤖⚡️ This Friday, Jan 26 11am-1pm ET Featuring talks about MEV research supported by FRP on topics including block building, credible commitments, redistribution, Suapps, auction design and more In Gather Town https://t.co/iHaZqexJAC

New FRP post on pair trading! Great work by @antsae_ https://t.co/Foq0PZxAUc

Flashbots Protect keeps you safer on Ethereum. Now, it's even easier to use! Excited to share https://t.co/fXJm0MkUeP ->

In honor of our favorite celebrity’s birthday, @stephensonmatt, @sxysun1 and I are releasing SUIFT, the Simple Unified Inception for Ticketing auction, a concept for a working suApp. You can view the landing page here:

Looking for a security project to support in the @optimismFND RetroPGF round? Vote for one that works for the community, not for VCs. Here's why you should support @theredguild, a small team of security researchers from LATAM 👇 https://t.co/BCZCWlB4NK

@theredguild ran an undercover campaign at @EtherArgentina to teach about security at crypto events 🔥 Featuring USB drops, deceiving flyers, phishing sites, backdoored code, QR codes, and other tricks. Here's all the details! https://t.co/HZ8VSzG3OV

We've now raised over $26M in total from world-class investors at @paradigm, @sequoia, and many more! Our mission is to reshape the standard for privacy, security, and user experience on the internet - we're just getting started! Check us out at

So my Twitter today is going to be a bit insufferable, but we're genuinely thrilled to announce our Series A 👐 Seriously though, we are at a pivotal time in crypto - distributed systems stand to massively upgrade the Internet, provided we can make them easy to use...