EPF - Initial Update

For my initial update I’d like to layout the topics I’ve been looking into to focus my research and work. These are:

• MEV
• Consensus Layer

These were inspired by @ralexstokes project proposal - Stack of CL + MEV Software for any Rustacean 🦀

Consensus Layer

For this topic I had to improve my knowledge of the ETH 2.0 architecture:

• https://docs.ethhub.io/ethereum-roadmap/ethereum-2.0/eth-2.0-client-architecture
• https://eth2book.info/altair/ - 👑
• https://members.delphidigital.io/reports/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-ethereum - Great article

Related code:

• https://github.com/ralexstokes/ethereum-consensus - Rust lib of modules implementing the consensus specs
• https://github.com/ralexstokes/beacon-api-client - Rust API specification for the beacon node
• https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse - Rust CL Client

MEV

I tried to focus on the latest on mev architecture, with proposer/builder separation and the mev-boost solution for consensus clients as main topics. But of course this is thightly related to the new consensus specs.

• https://github.com/ethereum/builder-specs - Ethereum Builder API Specification
• https://github.com/ralexstokes/mev-rs - Rust based mev utils
• https://mirror.xyz/ladislaus.eth/QeBg1qqNrUSFZv0id7t2pNyhXhHSxNQxJvt7YMUK3s8 - PoS Ethereum MEV
• https://mirror.xyz/ladislaus.eth/XY00FiQBunZss_SddZ7rSfYocrONdEJkM0o2NZG9Tf4 - MEV and mev-boost FAQ

Next Steps

So far I’ve only been doing research and learning about these topics, mainly because I wasn’t up to date but also to see if I really wanted to work on this.

And I do! MEV and the mev-boost middleware is definitely something I would enjoy fully understanding and contributing to.

My next steps are doing a deep dive on mev and mev-boost, and see how I can start contributing.