31 July - 6 August 2023

This week I went on further studying research materials while also working on narrowing down my ideas.

Re-studied many research posts as well as videos from the PBS day/Modular Summit 2023 with particular focus on ePBS and PEPC:

• https://ethresear.ch/t/unbundling-pbs-towards-protocol-enforced-proposer-commitments-pepc/13879
• https://ethresear.ch/t/why-enshrine-proposer-builder-separation-a-viable-path-to-epbs/15710/28

Studied the following:

• PEPC FAQ's by Barnabe
• Ethereum PBS R&D Roadmap by Mike and the related presentation

Read the following posts on

1. MEV-burn:

   • MEV smoothing by Francesco
   • Burning MEV through block proposer auctions by Domothy
   • MEV-burn by Justin Drake

2. MEV-Share by Flashbots:

   • https://docs.flashbots.net/flashbots-mev-share/overview
   • https://github.com/flashbots/mev-share
   • https://collective.flashbots.net/t/mev-share-programmably-private-orderflow-to-share-mev-with-users/1264

3. SUAVE by Flashbots:

   • https://writings.flashbots.net/the-future-of-mev-is-suave/
   • https://writings.flashbots.net/mevm-suave-centauri-and-beyond

4. SUAVE and PEPC by Barnabe:

   • https://www.notion.so/SUAVE-PEPC-Reply-to-Xyn-b46524a531a84fe79413db0f56ad93bc

Got familiar with the following data dashboards:

• https://mevboost.pics/
• https://beaconcha.in/relays
• https://transparency.flashbots.net/
• https://www.relayscan.io/
• https://collective.flashbots.net/t/relayscan-io-bulk-data-download/1208
• https://tornado-warning.info/
• https://eth.metrika.co/mev

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Important update: Initially I was looking to review PBS proposals, and work on MEV mitigation.
After having discussed with other research fellows (Ella, Nilu, Rachit) we agreed to team up and move to the topic of decentralized sequencer/prover models, prover incentives and reward modelling for zk-rollups.