MEV in 2025 by Shea Ketsdever

Why TEEs matter in MEV and some apps I’m excited to build with them

TEEs are really cool and useful tech The negativity they get on crypto twitter has strong "perfection is the enemy of good" vibes Everything has tradeoffs. The more tools at our disposal the better when scaling/securing blockchains and their peripheral components 🚀

TEE-boost: this is a new proposal to remove relays from mev-boost. relays main function is to protect validators from builders making invalid or "underpaying" blocks. turns out when the builder is in a TEE and attests to running an open-source builder codebase, it physically

One of the core value propositions of blockchain is disintermediation. Because of this, you will see mechanism design on aspects of our ecosystem attempt to replace trusted intermediaries with technology. That is happening with MEV with things like TEEs and TLSNotary.

Closing the Intel TDX Page Fault Side Channel, or, The Case for TDExit-Notify collective.flashbots.net/t/closing-the-…

LIVE NOW -- The MEV Trilemma 🔼 w/ Shea Ketsdever from Flashbots Shea helps us understand the MEV trilemma, the solutions we have for it, & how new tech called a Trusted Execution Environment could change the future of MEV as we know it...

I learned a lot from Shea Ketsdever! MEV is a constantly evolving beast, but now TEEs are on the scene! Learn how TEEs impact the MEV landscape 👇

🎙️This week Anna Rose + Tarun Chitra chat with Andrew Miller. They discuss his early works on consensus, ZK and MPC before covering the topic of his current work: TEEs or Trusted Execution Environments Listen here: zeroknowledge.fm/339-2/