Citadel, But On-Chain With Ludwig Thouvenin

Ludwig Thouvenin from Sorella discusses Ethereum MEV, Uniswap V4, and the launch of Brontes, an open-source MEV dashboard. He explores the complexities of DeFi liquidity, arbitrage strategies, and the future of Ethereum's protocol design, offering insights into the challenges and opportunities in the evolving crypto landscape.

Follow our guest on Twitter: @SorellaLabs @0xvanbeethoven
Link to the dashboard: https://t.co/tylzKFdetM

00:00 Start
00:57 What is Sorella?
03:38 Types of MEV
06:31 Confidence of MEV identification
11:28 Assumption & discoveries
19:10 Cross-chain MEV
22:08 Large firm advantages
24:41 Trading vs arbitraging
26:26 Big builder landscape
29:43 MEV accelerationist views?
33:58 Private order flow
35:18 Should users know about order flow?
37:38 Angstrom DEX
41:12 Uniswap 3 vs 4
42:52 Why doesn't Uniswap have this functionality?
45:22 Why a hook, not an app?
48:51 System architecture
50:00 Slashing & node count
50:45 Uniswap LPs, WTF?
57:45 Permissionless capital formation
1:00:43 Protocol design
1:06:41 Foreseeable hazards
1:10:21 Ethereum roadmap optimism


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