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DI Take

Flashbots is the most influential research-and-infrastructure org in Ethereum that almost nobody outside MEV thinks about. MEV-Boost runs ~90% of Ethereum block production by relay share. SUAVE (Single Unified Auction for Value Expression) is the team's bet on a decoupled block-building chain — a moonshot that, if it works, becomes the canonical execution layer for cross-chain MEV. The team's positioning between researcher, infrastructure provider, and ecosystem-shaping force is unusual.

Relations

Top connections in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph (confidence-weighted, 16 of 16 total).

RelationConnected entityConfidence
publishedNetwork Anonymized Mempools85%
publisheddecentralized building: wat do?85%
publishedFast, Configurable, and Verifiable Sequencing is Coming to Every OP Stack Chain85%
publishedMEV and the Limits of Scaling85%
publishedScalable Oblivious Accesses to Blockchain Data85%
publishedThe First L2 TEE Block Builder is Live on Unichain Mainnet85%
publishedBuilder-Playground - Simplifying Local Testing Environments for Block Building85%
publishedMigrating to BuilderNet85%
publishedZTEE - Trustless Supply Chains85%
publishedParallel block building85%
published2 Million Protect Users85%
publishedZero Trust Execution Environments85%
publishedIntroducing Rollup-Boost - Launching on Unichain85%
publishedState of Wallets 202485%
publishedMitigating MEV with FHE - Blind Arbitrage on Ethereum85%
publishedOpen sourcing rbuilder85%
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Frequently asked questions

What is Flashbots best known for?

MEV-Boost, the software that lets Ethereum validators outsource block construction to a competitive builder market via relays.

What is BuilderNet?

A decentralised block-building network running inside trusted execution environments, launched by Flashbots with Beaverbuild and Nethermind to share MEV and reduce reliance on exclusive order flow.

Does Flashbots still run its own block builder?

It moved its builders, order flow and refunds to BuilderNet and ceased operating centralised block builders on Ethereum.

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