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Flashbots' Strategic Director and Lido Strategic Advisor Hasu stated, "The worst thing is not that token holders don't care about the project, but that those who think they understand how to run a company actively intervene. What is infuriating now is that many investors are forcing startup teams to conduct buybacks, pushing unverified incentive mechanisms, and proposing various governance ideas that would destroy the value of startups, resulting in massive value destruction.If I were to start a business in the crypto industry today, I would never advise issuing tokens before being ready for 'going public.' Treat tokens like an IPO, and even then, try to maintain complete control of the company by the founders. Almost every founder today regrets issuing tokens because they were swept along by that seemingly 'cheap capital' wave, but now the cheap capital has shown its fangs and is biting back.In the crypto industry, the drawbacks of 'going public' and losing control over one's finances is a severely underestimated and under-researched issue. 90% of crypto projects should not issue tokens at all."

ChainCatcher news, according to PeckShield monitoring, in Ethereum block #21693344, a validator received a reward of 124.99 ETH (approximately $425,000) through Flashbots. In addition, the address 0x3AC0...Be77 conducted a large transaction, exchanging 862 ETH (approximately $2.9 million) for 32,000 LINK (approximately $847,000).

ChainCatcher message, Uniswap Labs announced that its mobile wallet has integrated Flashbots protection features, providing automatic protection for users on all transactions on the Ethereum network, effectively preventing MEV attacks such as front-running and sandwich attacks.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum infrastructure service Flashbots researcher Shea Ketsdever posted on social media that Flashbots will no longer operate a centralized block builder on Ethereum.Flashbots has migrated its builder, order flow, and refunds to the decentralized Ethereum block building network BuilderNet.

ChainCatcher news, blockchain research and infrastructure provider Flashbots has launched BuilderNet to address the centralization issues in the Ethereum block building process, aiming to distribute control of the process more evenly among different operators.Flashbots hopes to adopt a collaborative block building approach that claims to encourage multiple operators to work together to securely share and process order flow. The initiative is named BuilderNet, with initial partners including Flashbots, block builder Beaverbuild, and Ethereum client provider Nethermind. The strategy of BuilderNet is to adopt a multi-operator system that allows parties to manage the same block builder.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Flashbots co-founder Stephane Gosselin has collaborated with research firm Kolibrio to launch a Telegram bot named Alfred for executing token swaps on Ethereum, aimed at facilitating users in performing token exchanges and preventing transactions that generate maximum extractable value (MEV) profits from reordering.The Frontier team stated that Alfred currently has no tokens, and the current focus is on product development. It is considering various revenue models, which may include charging service fees for transactions conducted through the bot. Stephane Gosselin resigned from Flashbots last year and now serves as the CEO of Frontier Research.

According to ChainCatcher news, data from RootData shows that in July this year, a total of 76 projects disclosed completed financing, with a cumulative financing amount of $547 million, a month-on-month increase of 7.8% compared to June, reversing the trend of declining financing amounts since February this year. However, compared to July last year, the crypto sector raised $1.499 billion in 143 rounds of financing, with this month's financing rounds and amounts still down 47.5% and 63.5% year-on-year, respectively.In terms of sectors, infrastructure, DeFi, and NFT sectors ranked in the top three for financing amounts. Among them, the infrastructure category had 24 projects that secured $228 million in financing in July, a month-on-month increase of 7%. The NFT sector raised $69.85 million, rebounding from $12.35 million in June. The social sector saw a significant increase in financing rounds, rising from 3 in June to 11.The five projects with the highest financing amounts are Flashbots, Futureverse, RISC Zero, Cosmic Wire, and hi. Among them, the MEV protocol Flashbots secured $60 million in Series B financing led by Paradigm, achieving a valuation of $1 billion. The AI metaverse Futureverse completed $54 million in Series A financing.Additionally, this month, 7 blockchain projects with AI concepts received financing, namely Futureverse, Tromero, Giza, AwesomeQA, SuperSight, Aspecta, and Web3Go.

ChainCatcher news, reported by The Block, states that Ethereum infrastructure service Flashbots has completed a $60 million Series B funding round at a valuation of $1 billion.It is reported that the funds will be used to develop the Suave platform, which supports providing optimal execution for users' trades at the lowest possible cost according to their preferences. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum infrastructure service Flashbots researcher Shea Ketsdever stated on social media that Flashbots has open-sourced its MEV-Share node.It is reported that the MEV-Share protocol will distribute a portion of the funds earned through Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) to Ethereum users, not just validators and block builders. Flashbots' product lead Robert Miller stated that by introducing a new entity called a "matchmaker," MEV-Share can match transaction bundles from seekers with user transactions, allowing seekers to further optimize their MEV capture efforts. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum infrastructure service Flashbots researcher and Founding Steward Alex Obadia has decided to leave. Alex Obadia stated that there are many reasons for leaving Flashbots, mostly personal. (source link)