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What this means for validators & the blockspace market:
In certain cases delaying bid selection is the economically efficient decision, not just for the proposer but for the blockspace market as a whole. This behavior doesn't just pull MEV opportunities forward, it actually captures opportunities that would otherwise be lost.
Protocols that allow bid selection to safely occur closer to the slot deadline, i.e. Optimum's mump2p, increase efficiency in the blockspace market.
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New Ethereum MEV research from the Optimum team: Is cross-slot MEV a zero sum game?
i.e. if some amount of MEV is missed in the selected bid for a given slot, does it always get fully captured in the following slot?
Our research team has presented evidence that it does not:
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The value of the work we're doing at @get_optimum is encapsulated quite well by the phrase "speed is money". In modern markets there are real economic advantages to latency reduction.
This is nothing new. Wall Street firms have long been optimizing on latency, primarily through colocation and top of the line hardware. However, when it comes to decentralized systems, expensive hardware and geographic concentration are antithetical to their purpose. Therefore we should optimize decentralized network latency through software, which I'm thrilled about because it's exactly what I've spent the better part of the past 2 decades working on with Random Linear Network Coding.
Now let’s talk about networking economics, the relationship between speed and money.
First, it's important to note that users will only pay for low latency if it can be consistently guaranteed.
Second, you can only make that latency guarantee for a certain number of users. This is a universal law of networking. We can model this relationship on a delay curve, shown below.
The delay curve is determined by the utilization rate of the network, meaning how much traffic is flowing through the network divided by the network's throughput. As you approach a level of traffic equal to the available throughput, latency trends infinitely higher.
On this delay curve we can impose some utility thresholds. These thresholds are the levels of latency which are important to different groups of users because of how that latency guarantee improves their economic outcomes. Finding the point on the curve where each threshold intersects will tell us what level of traffic we can guarantee that level of latency for.
Essentially, there exists a finite supply of speed on a network and the highest utility users of that speed are willing to pay more for it. I like to think of this similarly to expedited shipping options on Amazon. This is why we say speed is money, and why we can create a Latency Marketplace.
The only way to increase the supply of speed is to fundamentally increase network throughput. This is what we work on at Optimum by using Random Linear Network Coding. The same relationship between traffic and throughput still applies, but now the delay curve is shifted out further to the right. Now more traffic can be processed at the same latency, or the same traffic can be processed at a lower latency. More speed available to the network. More value unlocked for the network’s users.
Crucially, that value is no longer only reserved for those who can afford to sit closest to the machine. Expanding the supply of speed widens who can reach each latency threshold, keeping the network's advantage decentralized rather than concentrated in the hands of a few. When nodes join Optimum and participate, they reap the benefits, but they also add to the capacity. Rather than vying against each other in a zero-sum game, nodes help themselves and others.
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We've been building @get_optimum for multiple years now and the tech behind it is a product of @MurielMedard work over the last 15+ years. Currently, we find ourselves entering some really exciting territory where we'll soon have a live product out in the wild on Ethereum mainnet, transmitting data for some of the largest validators on the network with many more to come. The blockchain industry as a whole is also at a pivotal point where the world's largest financial institutions are seriously adopting the tech at an increasingly fast pace.
We see our future products playing a serious role in improving not only validator performance & economics, but benefitting those upstream in the blockspace market, such as block builders, MEV searchers, and relays. Downstream, we think Optimum is capable of providing tremendous value to traders who desire consistent low latency data to inform their operations. Data collection, experimentation, and analysis are all going to be essential to developing our offerings for these markets.
The person we hire for this Senior Data Scientist role is going to be at the heart of it all, so if you know or are someone who fits the bill let's get in touch. 🤝
Optimum@get_optimum
We are hiring a Senior Data Scientist. You will work at the intersection of networking infrastructure, decentralized systems, and empirical blockchain research, where millisecond-level differences can have meaningful economic consequences. High ownership, high impact role. Fully remote. Apply at: jobs.ashbyhq.com/optimum/ee9881…
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Reduce latency, improve network utility. ♾
Muriel Medard@MurielMedard
The value of the work we're doing at @get_optimum is encapsulated quite well by the phrase "speed is money". In modern markets there are real economic advantages to latency reduction. This is nothing new. Wall Street firms have long been optimizing on latency, primarily through colocation and top of the line hardware. However, when it comes to decentralized systems, expensive hardware and geographic concentration are antithetical to their purpose. Therefore we should optimize decentralized network latency through software, which I'm thrilled about because it's exactly what I've spent the better part of the past 2 decades working on with Random Linear Network Coding. Now let’s talk about networking economics, the relationship between speed and money. First, it's important to note that users will only pay for low latency if it can be consistently guaranteed. Second, you can only make that latency guarantee for a certain number of users. This is a universal law of networking. We can model this relationship on a delay curve, shown below. The delay curve is determined by the utilization rate of the network, meaning how much traffic is flowing through the network divided by the network's throughput. As you approach a level of traffic equal to the available throughput, latency trends infinitely higher. On this delay curve we can impose some utility thresholds. These thresholds are the levels of latency which are important to different groups of users because of how that latency guarantee improves their economic outcomes. Finding the point on the curve where each threshold intersects will tell us what level of traffic we can guarantee that level of latency for. Essentially, there exists a finite supply of speed on a network and the highest utility users of that speed are willing to pay more for it. I like to think of this similarly to expedited shipping options on Amazon. This is why we say speed is money, and why we can create a Latency Marketplace. The only way to increase the supply of speed is to fundamentally increase network throughput. This is what we work on at Optimum by using Random Linear Network Coding. The same relationship between traffic and throughput still applies, but now the delay curve is shifted out further to the right. Now more traffic can be processed at the same latency, or the same traffic can be processed at a lower latency. More speed available to the network. More value unlocked for the network’s users. Crucially, that value is no longer only reserved for those who can afford to sit closest to the machine. Expanding the supply of speed widens who can reach each latency threshold, keeping the network's advantage decentralized rather than concentrated in the hands of a few. When nodes join Optimum and participate, they reap the benefits, but they also add to the capacity. Rather than vying against each other in a zero-sum game, nodes help themselves and others.
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Gmum ! @blockchainjeff @get_optimum This community is truly amazing 🚀, and i wanted to give something back to the amazing people who make this space what it is.
Made by me, 100% free for community! 🆓
Shipping to Indonesian regional mod @CryptoSundayz
Ask him to get it! 🎁
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@everstake_pool @ethereum @ethereumfndn @SAMALTCOIN_ETH @fundstrat @FigoETH @LeonWaidmann @YounghoYh_PARK @ganziboy11 @Ethprofit Just realized Ethereum hitting 1B transactions in 2026 is actually quite feasible🤯
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‼️@ethereum just made history.
In Q2 2026, the network processed an astonishing 203,851,942 transactions, the highest quarterly transaction count ever recorded.
This is an important milestone because transaction count remains one of the clearest measures of real network usage. A huge thank you to every user contributing to Ethereum every single day. This achievement belongs to the entire community.
And what's particularly notable is that this record comes after more than a decade of continuous growth. As blockchain ecosystems mature, sustaining higher levels of activity becomes increasingly difficult. Yet Ethereum continues to expand its network activity and set new records.
Believe in somETHing.
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@Obol_Collective Won't be long until the majority of validators are running DVs and RLNC.
New meta.
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A year ago, Bitcoin Suisse deployed its first Obol Distributed Validator on Ethereum mainnet.
Today, that groundwork becomes the new institutional standard.
Under a new multi-year agreement, they're migrating 100% of their ETH staking infrastructure to Obol DVs.
No legacy validator technology will remain ⬇️🧵
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"the transaction volumes coming on Ethereum are going to be many, many multiples of what we see today."
Optimized networking will be incredibly important for scaling up to those levels.
RLNC.
Laura Shin@laurashin
Joseph Chalom on when Ethereum will start triggering the burn again "At some point, the transaction volumes coming on Ethereum are going to be many, many multiples of what we see today. Right now there's a lot of blockspace, we're not triggering the burn. But when you start seeing stablecoin growth like we expect, and tokenization, that changes" "There's only $31 billion of tokenized real world assets. The estimates, whether it's BCG or Citigroup or B. Riley, is that it's going to be measured in the trillions. DeFi has had a hiccup from a security perspective, but wait until RWAs join Bitcoin and ETH in borrowing and lending markets. You're gonna see massive transaction volume, and that's even before we get to agentic" "This stuff is compounding. If stablecoins, tokenized real world assets, and DeFi are largely happening on Ethereum, this is gonna be a righteous circle, and more and more share of transactions are gonna happen on Ethereum. At some point, we'll start triggering the burn"
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Every day more of the financial world is moving onchain, demanding high speeds at an increasingly large scale.
So how can we speed up blockchains while retaining the decentralization that makes them such valuable venues for economic activity?
Our CEO @MurielMedard is back at her whiteboard to demonstrate. ⬇️
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🚨 New episode: Untangling Blockchain Infrastructure with Kent Lin
This week we’re joined by @kentlinyy, Co-Founder and COO of @get_optimum.
Blockchain adoption is entering a new phase.
The question is no longer whether the technology has potential.
It’s whether the infrastructure can support serious financial activity at global scale.
For institutions, that means speed, scalability, reliability, security and resilience when markets are under pressure.
Because if trillions of dollars are going to move on chain, blockchains need to behave like real financial infrastructure.
Watch/listen here:
youtube.com/watch?v=e8wn6d…
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