MEV-Boost Status Update - July 15-29, 2022
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MEV-Boost Status Update - July 15-29, 2022

This MEV-Boost status update covers the past two weeks, from July 15th to July 29th. See all previous mev-boost status updates here.

Development updates

mev-boost

  • Final report of the first code audit published
  • mev-boost is now generally feature complete and fully tested. Only minor incremental improvements are expected from here on.
  • Releases of mev-boost v0.7.5, v0.7.6 and v0.7.7
    • Addressing the remaining low-priority issues from the code audit
    • Minor quality-of-life improvements
    • Installation now possible with: go install github.com/flashbots/mev-boost@latest

Boost Relays

Live Flashbots relays:

  • https://builder-relay-kiln.flashbots.net
  • https://builder-relay-ropsten.flashbots.net
  • https://builder-relay-sepolia.flashbots.net

External relays:

  • bloXroute announces MEV Relay on Ropsten

Relay API Spec

  • Minor updates on the draft version, in particular around the Data API. Any more comments?
  • Data API to get recently delivered payloads will be deployed next week.

builder-specs

  • PR: Add Proposer config file specification #41
  • PR merged: Merge transition delay #38

Various Updates

  • The MEV-Boost landing page is live!
  • Nethermind released the sedge tool which can quickly spin up various CL+EL combinations with mev-boost
  • Ongoing discussions:
    • Censorship Resistance: crlists in mev-boost #215
    • Safeguards and mitigations to preserve liveness #222
    • mev-boost circuit breaker proposal
    • Relay monitoring & preventing continued relay errors #142
    • Relay spam protection: require a small deposit to submit blocks as a builder #219
  • Consensus-layer call 92: discussions around circuit-breaker and relay monitor

Testing and implementation

  • Goerli Shadow Fork 6 happening next week.
  • Goerli fork happening early August, projected August 6-12, 2022
  • Updated MEV Boost\Builder API instructions from Teku are live
  • Lodestar merged mev-boost into unstable
  • Confirmed successful first testnet interactions with Lodestar and Nimbus.

Consensus-layer client implementation status

Teku
Prysm
Lighthouse
Nimbus
Lodestar
Progress
🎉 done
🎉 done
🎉 done
🎉 done
🎉 done
Testnet ready
✅
✅
✅
✅
✅
Guide
guide
guide
guide
guide
guide

Content and education

  • Actions to take for Mev-boost Readiness ahead of the Merge announcement is live!
  • If you would like to join the mev-boost testing group, please complete the node operator testnet setup and notify Kailin (Telegram/Discord: @imkailin) for support.

Get involved

💡 Learn more about mev-boost at https://github.com/flashbots/mev-boost, and about Flashbots at docs.flashbots.net

💬 Reach out via github.com/flashbots/mev-boost, and #mev-boost in the Flashbots Discord

🛠️ Help us test mev-boost and our relay+builder on all the testnets - available on Kiln, Ropsten and Sepolia. See also detailed instructions at https://github.com/flashbots/mev-boost#usage