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The Price of 50 Milliseconds: What Latency Is Actually Worth to Validators

Optimum's new analysis puts concrete ETH numbers on the value of network latency reduction - 50ms of faster propagation translates to +0.66% APR and 150 ETH/week in additional MEV bid value across the network.

Phantom Millions: Why Sandwich Attack Statistics Are Broken

Three sandwich attacks reported as $4.7M in profit were actually worth close to zero. A forensic look at how low-liquidity token pricing distorts MEV dashboards - and why it matters for protocol design, regulation, and the dark forest narrative.

JIT Liquidity: Two Economic Regimes, One Block

A study of 442,000 JIT bundles on Uniswap v3 reveals that public and private execution channels create fundamentally different economics - with measurable consequences for builders, searchers, and passive LPs.

Ethereum's Blockspace Market Under the Microscope

A builder, a relay, a pricing researcher, and an EF researcher co-authored a paper on what's broken in Ethereum's blockspace pipeline. Here's what they found - and what they're not saying.

Relay Block Merging: How Losing Builders Still Get Paid

A new mechanism from the Titan team lets relays append transactions from losing builders onto winning blocks - creating more valuable blocks, solving relay economics, and improving censorship resistance. All without changing the protocol.