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Specification for the external block builders.
https://ethereum.github.io/builder-specs/
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Deprecate Builder specs in lights of Flashbots adopting OFAC sanctions #49

Closed Giulio2002 closed 2 years ago

Giulio2002 commented 2 years ago

Rationale

Flashbots has been found to censor transactions in their bundles, and It is just a matter of time for when they are going to do the same in MEV-Boost. I believe, it is an attack on Ethereum and Decentralization as a whole and needs to be tackled somehow. this is just the first shot.

Additions

This PR adds a couple of deprecation notes on the builder specs and momentarily deprecates it. flashbots can use their own closed source code to do this but I believe that the Ethereum community should not let users use MEV-Boost. Note: this deprecation is meant to be momentary, and will by no mean extend for too much time.

lightclient commented 2 years ago

There are also discussions happening in #block-construction on the Eth R&D discord on this topic that readers may want to participate in.