Indexed Podcast

Today we're diving into Real Economic Value (REV) and the true utility of blockchain metrics.We explore:What Real Economic Value (REV) actually measuresBreaking down REV's methodology and its implicationsComparing Ethereum and Solana through the lens of REVThe role of MEV and nuances in MEV paymentsFlash Bots, True Block Value, and Extractable ValueChallenges in measuring and evaluating blockchain activityEthereum vs. Solana: roadmap differences and metric clarityThe future of blockchain metricsAnd much more—enjoy! — Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (01:47) Understanding Real Economic Value (REV) (03:10) Breaking Down REV Metrics (07:58) Comparing Ethereum and Solana (10:20) The Role of MEV (15:45) Challenges in Measuring Blockchain Metrics (39:18) Flash Bots and Realized Extractable Value (REV) (43:52) Understanding True Block Value (44:46) Comparing Solana and Ethereum (45:54) Nuances in MEV Payments (47:26) Methodology of REV (47:54) Non-Standard Transfers and Their Impact (51:30) Evaluating Metrics (55:18) Debating the Validity of REV (1:03:02) Ethereum vs. Solana: Roadmap and Metrics (1:15:25) The Future of Blockchain Metrics (1:23:16) Final Thoughts and Conclusion —The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry, with a new episode every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month, brought to you by wizards @hildobby_ @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod — DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we're joined by Ethereum researcher Christine Kim to go deep on Ethereum's Pectra upgrade, set to launch on April 21.In this episode we're discussing: * Christine's background * Technical know-how * Ethereum technical upgrade coverage * Ethereum Core Dev Calls * Ethereum upgrade governance process * Unpacking the Pectra upgrade * Upgrade goals: L2 scaling, wallet UX, staking & more * BLOBs * Dencun's Ethereum revenue impacts/DA cost reductions * BLOB space demand * Back to ‘ETH is a commodity to pay for gas' * “There are too many active validators” * Reducing validators risks centralizing? * 1M+ validators/improving network efficiencies/Lido solo stakers * Do Ethereum core dev's have a validators target? * EIP-7702 explained * Most looking forward to from EIP-7702 * EIP-7702 limitations * Adoption of type 4 transactions * Christine's new Substack: ‘christinedkim' + upcoming content plansAnd much more—enjoy!—Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (01:26) Christine's background (03:27) Technical know-how (06:25) Ethereum technical upgrade coverage (08:31) Ethereum Core Dev Calls (12:46) Ethereum upgrade governance process (18:23) Unpacking the Pectra upgrade (22:23) Upgrade goals: L2 scaling, wallet UX, staking & more (25:38) BLOBs (27:50) Dencun's Ethereum revenue impacts/DA cost reductions (34:46) BLOB space demand (38:28) Back to ‘ETH is a commodity to pay for gas' (41:01) “There are too many active validators” (42:44) Reducing validators risks centralizing? (47:24) 1M+ validators/improving network efficiencies/Lido solo stakers (49:27) Do Ethereum core dev's have a validators target? (52:16) EIP-7702 explained (54:37) Most looking forward to from EIP-7702 (1:01:10) EIP-7702 limitations (1:04:46) Adoption of type 4 transactions (1:11:32) Christine's new Substack: ‘christinedkim' + upcoming content plans (1:18:26) Outro —Content links:Christine's Substack: https://bit.ly/4jWnkeD —Follow Christine:https://x.com/christine_dkim https://christinedkim.substack.comFollow the co-hosts:https://x.com/hildobby_ https://x.com/0xBoxer https://x.com/sui414Follow the Indexed Podcast:https://twitter.com/indexed_pod —The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry, with a new episode every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month, brought to you by wizards @hildobby_ @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe/follow the show and leave a comment to help us grow the show! —DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today the three of us are discussing all things Dragonfly's State of Airdrops Report 2025, Airdrop mechanics, incentives, regulations, and more! We discuss:If Airdrops are still relevant in 2025The US government's evolving stance on AirdropsHighlights from Dragonfly's State of Airdrops ReportThe mechanics of unclaimed AirdropsLegal limitations on claimingRegulatory uncertainty and protocol costsHow effective Airdrops are for user growth and retentionComparing Web3 and Web2 liquidity unlocksDesigning Airdrop incentivesExploring new governance solutionsAnd much more—enjoy!—Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (01:08) Why focus on Airdrops in 2025? (05:45) What's the US gov position on Airdrops? (13:03) Dragonfly's State of Airdrops Report 2025 (26:41) Unclaimed Airdrop mechanics (34:48) Airdrop claim limitations (38:34) Cost of regulatory uncertainty (41:13) Airdrop effectiveness for protocols (55:03) Web3 vs Web2 liquidity unlocks (1:01:37) Airdrop incentives (1:10:42) Governance solutions (1:12:25) Outro— Content links:Dragonfly's State of Airdrops Report 2025: https://bit.ly/41Y3Tf6—The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry, with a new episode every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month, brought to you by wizards @hildobby_ @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod —DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today, we dive into a new DEX research paper 'Execution Welfare Across Solver-based DEXes'. Joined by the authors, to find out which DEX is the best—enjoy!—  Timestamps:(00:00) Introduction  (04:53) What motivated this research?  (10:00) Measuring DEX end-user satisfaction  (12:29) Trade simulations vs historic trade data  (16:53) Research findings: welfare boxplot  (20:18) Asset-type dependence/platform comparison  (23:00) V2 liquidity attraction  (24:33) Onchain execution vs CEX  (33:10) DEX recommendations  (35:23) PEPE Ethereum onchain liquidity: long tail  (38:50) Trader profiles  (44:43) PMM/AMM liquidity comparisons  (50:56) How has your own behavior changed from research findings?  (1:01:37) Outro  —  Content links:Research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00738—  **Follow the co-hosts** https://x.com/hildobby_  https://x.com/0xBoxer  https://x.com/sui414  **Follow the guests** https://x.com/ballsyalchemisthttps://x.com/dex_chen_V**Follow the Indexed Podcast:**  https://twitter.com/indexed_pod  —  The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics, and chart crimes in the crypto industry, with a new episode every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month, brought to you by wizards @hildobby_, @0xBoxer, and @sui414.  Subscribe/follow the show and leave a comment to help us grow the podcast!  —  **DISCLAIMER:** All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax, or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of the hosts' employers' views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we're discussing the $1.5B Bybit hack and diving deep onchain.  In this episode we're discussing:Cryptos history of hacksExchange hack mechanics Solving hardware wallets/Safe UIMultisig partners verification processesBybit outflowsBybit comms response strategyDeFi/Ethena impactOracle execution Bybit's crisis response Tracing the hackersValuable insights from the hackAnd much more—enjoy! — This is a developing news story, here are relevant links to updates:https://x.com/benbybit/status/1894768736084885929https://x.com/pcaversaccio/status/1894773709996724403—Timestamps:(00:00) Introduction(05:51) Hack size comparisons(07:53) Exchange hack mechanics (16:34) Solving hardware wallets/Safe UI(20:45) Multisig partners verification processes(22:55) Bybit outflows(28:29) Bybit comms response strategy(29:39) DeFi/Ethena impact(36:03) Oracle execution (40:52) Bybit's crisis response (42:27) Tracing the hackers(48:50) Valuable insights from the hack(50:01) Ethereum rollback? (56:57) ETH quick takes (58:57) Outro—Follow the co-hosts:https://x.com/hildobby_https://x.com/0xBoxerhttps://x.com/sui414Follow the Indexed Podcast:https://twitter.com/indexed_pod—The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month, brought to you by wizards @hildobby_ @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe/follow the show and leave a comment to help us grow the show!—DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we're joined by Lorenz Lehmann, The Master of Labels at growthepie.xyz. In this episode we're discussing:- What does ‘Grow The Pie' do?- What is Grow The Pie measuring? - Indexed & aggregated data- Most profitable L2 vs biggest loser - Base rollups- Ethereum block time constraints - L1/L2 economics overview - Network fees, Blob space miss-pricing, tariffs needed?- L1 fees vs Blob fees- Who's ETH aligned?- Ethereum calldata, Celestia vs Ethereum Blobs- Celestia's DA economics/scalability- Paying for data/Grow The Pie costs, data as a public good- Block space utilisation - Grow The Pie's labelling solutionAnd much more—enjoy!—Timestamps:(00:00) Introduction(03:07) Why ‘Grow The Pie'?(05:10) What is Grow The Pie measuring? (08:58) Indexed & aggregated data(10:09) Most profitable L2 vs biggest loser (14:33) Base rollups(15:51) Ethereum block time constraints (17:46) L1/L2 economics overview (20:42) Network fees, Blob space miss-pricing, tariffs needed?(32:35) L1 fees vs Blob fees(33:53) Who's ETH aligned?(40:24) Ethereum calldata, Celestia vs Ethereum Blobs(45:03) Celestia's DA economics/scalability(47:39) Paying for data/Grow The Pie costs, data as a public good(55:51) Block space utilisation (56:27) Grow The Pie's labelling solution(1:01:59) Outro—Follow the guest:https://x.com/LehmannLorenzFollow the co-hosts:https://x.com/hildobby_https://x.com/0xBoxerhttps://x.com/sui414Follow the Indexed Podcast:https://twitter.com/indexed_pod—The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month, brought to you by wizards @hildobby_ @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe/follow the show and leave a comment to help us grow the show!—DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today the three of us are diving deep on $TRUMP! We discuss:- The US President launches a memecoin… (first reactions)  - Moonshot involvement/other partners/insider trading  - Chart review  - Website review, tokenomics, on-chain activity  - Moonshot cross-chain plans  - Solana stablecoin growth post-$TRUMP  - Solana's liquidity dominance  - Trump administration: no US crypto capital gains tax  - Echo/private equity access  - What is Echo.xyz?- Ethereum FUD  And much more—enjoy!—Timestamps:(00:00) Introduction(00:55) The US President launches a memecoin…(first reactions)(05:40) Moonshot involvement/other partners/insider trading (10:08) Chart review (17:35) Website review, tokenomics, onchain activity(32:15) Moonshot cross chain plans(34:40) Solana stablecoin growth post-$TRUMP(42:02) Solana's liquidity dominance (43:52) Trump administration: no US crypto capital gains tax (48:5) Echo/private equity access(53:39) What is Echo?(1:07:15) Ethereum FUD(1:10:29) Outro—The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby_ @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod—DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we're joined by Chris and George, from https://tryghost.xyz/graphIn this episode we discuss: Solana MEV & sandwich attacksSolana MEV competition Liquidity provisions & lowering MEV impactValidatorsNovel attack strategies: CeFi/DeFi arb, liquidity snipping MEV: Ethereum vs Solana MEV mitigation tools Slippage indexing Ghost's 2025 roadmap Parallel EVM visualizer What needs solving in 2025? And much more—enjoy!—Chapters:(00:00) Introduction(00:53) George & Chris' background(05:22) Solana MEV & sandwich attacks(14:26) Solana MEV competition (19:13) Liquidity provisions & lowering MEV impact(22:47) Validators(24:12) Novel attack strategies: CeFi/DeFi arb, liquidity snipping (29:32) MEV: Ethereum vs Solana (39:07) MEV mitigation tools (41:10) Slippage indexing (43:05) Ghost's 2025 focuses (46:05) Parallel EVM visualizer (52:10) Ghost's 2025 roadmap (53:33) What needs solving in 2025?(59:34) Outro —The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby_ @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod—Follow Ghost here:https://x.com/0xGhostLogs—DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we're joined by Nixo, Chief Nerd Wrangler at EthStaker. In this episode we discuss: * EthStaker * Why stake?* Beacon chain * ETH staking volume* Issuance sustainability/solo stakers* Professional node operators * Staked ETH landscape* Data labelling: rated network issues/solo stakers* Where to go from here* Coinbase validators/correlation penalties * Penalty rebalancing* Do we even need solo stakers?* Network vs hardware: onboarding solo staker issues * Solo stakes maintenance * Host diversity  And much more—enjoy!—Chapters:(00:00) Introduction(01:31) Nixo's background (03:42) EthStaker (05:00) Why stake?(07:37) Timeline: Beacon chain (10:10) Macro: ETH staking(16:55) Issuance sustainability/solo stakers(20:41) Professional node operators (22:05) ETH staked breakdown(27:36) Data labelling: rated network issues/solo stakers(31:30) Where to go from here(38:56) Coinbase validators/correlation penalties (44:02) Penalty rebalancing effectiveness (46:58) other solo staker problems (50:38) Do we even need solo stakers?(59:25) Network vs hardware: onboarding solo staker issues (1:02:44) Solo stakes maintenance (1:06:31) Host diversity  (1:12:44) Outro—The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby_ @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod—Follow Nixo here:https://x.com/nixorokish—DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we're joined by Bitwise Co-Founder & CTO, Hong Kim to discuss how Bitwise has built the world's largest crypto index fund and the future of crypto ETF's and institutional onboarding into crypto.In this episode we discuss: Bitwise metrics & early days ETF's brand/transparency importance Crypto native branding ETFsBitwise's customer profile  Bitwise reportWhat is a financial advisor?ETF performance: BTC vs ETHWirehouse/financial advisors relationshipsWealth transfers among demosBTC outperformanceBitcoin ETF BTC absorption risksETH ETF staking/restakingAnd much more—enjoy!—Chapters:(00:00) Introduction(01:25) Bitwise metrics & early days (09:20) ETF's brand/transparency importance (16:31) Crypto native branding ETFs(20:39) Bitwise's customer profile  (24:39) Bitwise report(29:43) What is a financial advisor?(32:08) ETF performance: BTC vs ETH(44:01) Wirehouse/financial advisors relationships(47:26) Wealth transfers among demos(48:43) BTC outperformance(50:36) Bitcoin ETF BTC absorption risks(59:52) ETH ETF staking/restaking(1:03:53) Outro—The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby_ @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod—Follow Hong Kim here:https://x.com/hongkim__—DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we're joined by RWA.xyz Co-Founder & CTO, Charlie You to discuss bringing Real World Assets onchain. RWA.xyz is the Premiere data website for Real-World-Assets.In this episode we discuss: What is rwa.xyzYield farming to RWAsWhat are Real-World-Assets?The Spectrum of Tokenization report What does on-chain RWAs solve?Tokenized funds Stablecoin differentiationTRONLending markets comparable vol RWAs quality evaluation  RWA blockers: regulation RWA roadmap RWA chart crimeAnd much more—enjoy!—Chapters:(00:00) Introduction(00:50) What is rwa.xyz(04:16) Yield farming to RWAs(08:24) What are Real-World-Assets?(09:12) The Spectrum of Tokenization report (14:05) What does on-chain RWAs solve?(20:57) rwa.xyz deep dive: tokenized funds (23:58) rwa.xyz deep dive: stablecoin differentiation(29:39) rwa.xyz deep dive: TRON(36:36) rwa.xyz deep dive: lending markets comparable vol (40:35) RWAs quality evaluation  (44:10) RWA blockers: regulation (51:36) RWA roadmap (57:43) RWA chart crime(59:11) Outro—The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod—Follow Charlie You here:https://x.com/CharlieYouAI—DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we're joined by Ethereum Researcher, Thomas Thiery AKA soispoke, to discuss censorship resistance.In this episode we discuss: * What does ‘censorship resistance' mean?*  Why is ‘censorship resistance' important?* SMG's transaction censorship report * Blob censorship concerns* Inclusion lists* EIP ETA* What's after Inclusion Lists?* Development conflicts with censorship resistance * Ethereum Foundation next focuses * The future of Ethereum And much more—enjoy!—Chapters:(00:00) Introduction(06:55) What does ‘censorship resistance' mean?(14:45) Why is ‘censorship resistance' important?(21:44) SMG's transaction censorship report (31:40) Blob censorship concerns(33:54) Chart crime(41:06) Inclusion lists(1:04:46) Defining inclusion (1:09:41) EIP ETA(1:11:29) What's after Inclusion Lists?(1:12:38) Development conflicts with censorship resistance (1:15:34) Ethereum Foundation next focuses (1:18:43) The future of Ethereum —The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod—Follow Thomas Thiery here:https://x.com/soispoke—DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we're joined by Joseph Noorchashm, Founding Partner of Sorella Labs and Ludwig Thouvenin, Co-Founder of Sorella Labs. Today we're discussing MEV searcher profits!In this episode the five of us discuss: Why build MEV Angstrom Frequent Batch Auction Brontes deep dive Angstrom Dashboard demo Bid adjustmentsBuilder profits Concentrated AMM's Potential limitations Programmatic determinations Exchange open price endpoints Atomic arbs Profit margin across MEVObserved data set trends  Angstrom UI Wen launch? DEX focusCEX/DEX volume hot takes And much more—enjoy!—Chapters:(00:00) Introduction (02:40) Why build MEV (04:21) Angstrom (09:52) Frequent Batch Auction (12:03) Brontes deep dive (16:53) Angstrom dashboard demo (28:53) bid adjustment  (32:28) Builder profits (34:56) Brontes examples (43:39) Concentrated AMM's (44:36) 1INCH example (53:07) Limitations (57:43) Programmatic determinations (1:01:34) Exchange open price endpoints (1:08:18) Atomic arbs (1:12:34) Profit margin across MEV(1:19:24) Key findings/spicy takes(1:27:07) Observed data set trends  (1:35:40) Angstrom UI (1:38:53) Wen launch? (1:40:30) DEX focus(1:42:25) CEX/DEX volume hot takes (1:45:18) Chart crime (1:52:13) Outro —The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod—Follow Joseph here:https://x.com/jnoorchashm37Follow Ludwig here:https://x.com/0xvanbeethoven—DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we're joined by dataalways, Researcher @ Flashbots.In this episode the four of us discuss: - Block building latency games - Block slots- Winning bid arrivals - Relays - Ethereum's 12 second deviation - L2's centralized sequencers  - MEV revenue incentives  And much more—enjoy!—Chapters:(00:00) Introduction (04:30) Block building latency games (12:56) Block slots(24:46) Winning bid arrivals (30:58) Rocket Pool (32:21) Relays (40:08) Winning bid arrival times (48:51) Missed head votes over proposers (54:00) Ethereum's 12 second deviation (57:10) L2's centralized sequencers  (1:01:31) MEV revenue incentives  (1:11:51) Gas fee/activity (1:15:45) Chart crime (1:20:20) Outro —The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod—Follow dataalways here:https://x.com/data_always—DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we're joined by Burak Öz, Ph.D. Candidate at Technical University of Munich, 2023 & @thelatestindefi research fellow. In this episode we discuss: Research Paper deep-dive: Who Wins Ethereum Block Building Auction?”MEV pipelineBeaverbuild, Rsync, Titan MEV Boost Decomposition Transaction Label Taxonomy Valuable Order Flow Exclusive ProvidersBlock packingExclusive Order Flow AccessResearch focusesAnd much more—enjoy!—Links:Research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13931—Chapters:(00:00) Introduction(07:09) Research Paper deep-dive: Who Wins Ethereum Block Building Auction?”(13:14) MEV pipeline(24:46) Beaverbuild, Rsync, Titan (34:45) MEV Boost Decomposition (42:11) Transaction Label Taxonomy (53:06) Valuable Order Flow (1:08:01) Exclusive Providers(1:10:13) Block packing(1:24:37) Exclusive Order Flow Access(1:34:37) Research focuses(1:38:34) ‘The Vitalik Surpriser'(1:40:28) Outro—The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod—Follow Burak here:https://x.com/boez95—DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we're joined by Kofi, self-proclaimed data nerd, responsible for ERC-4337 data aggregator; bundlebear.com, and more. In this episode we discuss: - ERC-4337- Bundle conflicts- Transaction fees- Account abstraction UX improvements - BundleBear: ERC-4337 data review/dApp landscape- DEX ERC-4337 adoption- Freelancing demand as a Data AnalystAnd much more—enjoy!Note: apologies for Kofi's smoke alarm!—Chapters:(00:00) Introduction(10:35) ERC-4337 Transaction signing (15:15) Bundle conflicts(16:40) Fees(21:25) Account abstraction UX improvements (30:40) BundleBear: ERC-4337 data review/dApp landscape(43:02) Account abstraction comparisons (45:21) Polygon vs Base user behaviours & DEX ERC-4337 environment(53:31) DEX ERC-4337 environment continued(1:02:42) Freelancing demand as a Data Analyst(1:19:59) ERC-4337 chart crimes(1:21:19) Outro—The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod—Follow Kofi here:https://x.com/0xKofi—DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Today we're diving deep on the ETH ETF launch, Polymarket, politics, and more! We discuss: ETH ETF FlowsAddress disclosuresPolymarket updatesBitcoin 2024 ConferenceWhat a Trump presidency might mean for cryptoEIC2Plus, an MEV teaser!Enjoy!—Chapters:(00:00) Introduction(02:02) ETH ETF flows update(26:30) Address disclosure (33:14) Data curation: Spice tool(39:46) Polymarket developments(1:08:27) Bitcoin 2024 Conference/Trump presidency(1:16:53) EIC2(1:20:10) MEV teaser(1:26:46) Outro—The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod—DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod--------------------------------------------------The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every other few weeks - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.--------------------------------------------------Chapters:00:00 Intro of Andrew Hong02:19 Why Solana Data is So Hard to Analyze?06:37 Challenges due to Solana's Fast Development Iteration13:08 Solana's Different Design from EVMs: Accounts, Parallel Execution & Gas Auction20:16 Lack of Developer Docs & Toolings26:44 Challenges due to Rust Implementations32:47 DEX and MEV on Solana45:30 Staking & Liquid Staking on Solana50:13 NFT Markets on Solana59:19 Andrew Hong's Educational Resources01:02:42 Tips for Analysts & Outlooks of Solana Data01:07:02 OutroLinks:https://dune.com/queries/3609253/6081458https://dune.com/ilemi/solana-dex-metricshttps://dune.com/queries/3887117/6533563https://x.com/smyyguy/status/1787892675145781611/photo/1https://dune.com/ilemi/solana-stakinghttps://dune.com/ilemi/candymachineshttps://dune.com/ilemi/solana-nftshttps://dune.com/queries/3887142https://roadmap.sh/r?id=65fee5b66deb533d6e19fb88--------------------------------------------------DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod--------------------------------------------------The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every other few weeks - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.--------------------------------------------------Chapters:00:00 Intro02:03 Event Logs or No Event Logs?05:20 What Are Events and Why the Debate?09:08 State of Events, Gas Spend and Limitations23:07 Impact of Events on State Growth & Scaling Solutions40:09 Offchain Events Trade-offs50:19 Outlook of Offchain Events' Adoption59:41 OutroLinks:https://www.paradigm.xyz/2024/03/how-to-raise-the-gas-limit-1https://dune.com/alvin/gas-costs-of-eventshttps://blog.shadow.xyz/pendle-case-study/--------------------------------------------------DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod--------------------------------------------------The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every other few weeks - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.--------------------------------------------------Chapters:00:00 Intro00:43 What is SocialFi?07:53 Friend.tech, PWA and Privy Wallet Onboarding21:35 Friend.tech clones: Star Arena and others25:08 Data Availability for Social Layer: Neynar30:37 Fantasy.top47:13 Telegram $TON Chain52:13 Memecoin Traders driven SocialFi54:43 Sofamon, Worldpvp, Orb.land, 0xppl01:03:07 Polymarket and the Election Cycle01:08:53 Consumer Crypto?01:11:35 Chart Crime of the Week01:18:25 OutroLinks:https://x.com/katiewav/status/1794033588582670489https://dune.com/msilb7/friendtech-on-base-activityhttps://dune.com/cryptokoryo/socialhttps://dune.com/_d3f4ult/starsarenahttps://x.com/andrewhong5297/status/1786492827943182372?s=46&t=CgOOIjEz_uRbAZFFRLsgAghttps://x.com/brxckinridge/status/1796222219020046749https://flipsidecrypto.xyz/edit/dashboards/7ea6a023-7715-49c2-a95b-986550524315https://dune.com/whale_hunter/world-pvphttps://dune.com/circletech/statshttps://dune.com/garythung/sofamonhttps://metaversal.banklesshq.com/p/what-is-sofamonhttps://dune.com/rchen8/polymarkethttps://tiexo.com/wash--------------------------------------------------DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod--------------------------------------------------The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every other few weeks - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.--------------------------------------------------Chapters:00:00 Intro and Everyone's Staking Experience04:13 Ethereum POS and Growth of Staking Protocols28:27 Restaking and EigenLayer34:46 Operators, AVS and Intersubjective Work Token50:56 EigenLayer TVL and Collateral Breakdown55:27 Restaking Risks01:02:30 Tea on the Restaking Competition01:04:18 OutroLinks:https://dune.com/hildobby/eth2-stakinghttps://www.rated.network/https://dune.com/hahahash/eigenlayerhttps://clientdiversity.org/#distributionhttps://dune.com/lys_protocol/restaking-landscapehttps://dune.com/Henrystats/liquidity-restaking-protocols--------------------------------------------------DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod--------------------------------------------------The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every other few weeks - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.--------------------------------------------------Chapters:00:00 Intro01:56 What is DEGEN?06:38 The Origin Story of DEGEN12:50 Jacek's Interests on SocialFi and Creator Economy18:45 $DEGEN Tokenomics26:26 Moderation on Airdrop Farming33:52 DEGEN Chain50:14 OutroDISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod--------------------------------------------------The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every other few weeks - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.--------------------------------------------------Chapters:00:00 Intro00:19 Blobscription on Ethereum mainnet15:51 Linea Park20:39 Memecoin trading season on Base33:12 $DEGEN Token and L350:31 The Influx of USDC into Base53:22 USDT's DeFi volume takeover moment58:25 Liquid Staking to Liquid Restaking Rotation01:07:29 Uniswap's poll on removing swap events onchain01:13:57 Onchain data learning resources by Andrew01:16:03 April Fool's Jokes01:18:53 Easter Egg! The Indexed Podcast theme song01:21:05 Outro--------------------------------------------------Links:- Blobsdune.com/hildobby/blobshttps://x.com/rob_0x/status/1775130717774626839?s=20- Lineahttps://twitter.com/hildobby_/status/1775536284036931646?s=20https://layer3.xyz/linea-park- Basegasfees.iohttps://x.com/marcov_91/status/1773242688776581128?s=20https://dune.com/oplabspbc/op-stack-chains-l1-activityhttps://dune.com/queries/3591132/6049234https://dune.com/sealaunch/dex-metrics-on-basehttps://dune.com/hildobby/atomic-mev?Blockchain_e69fd6=basehttps://dune.com/queries/3558077/5987641https://dune.com/whale_hunter/banana-gun-bot- $DEGENhttps://x.com/nansen_ai/status/1755301107205836912?s=20https://x.com/syndicateio/status/1775885003563704371https://dune.com/hashed_official/degen- Liquid stakinghttps://x.com/hildobby_/status/1775123732534603919?s=20- Andrew's onchain data guidehttps://x.com/andrewhong5297/status/1773008519660277993?s=20- Indexed Pod theme songhttps://app.suno.ai/song/34d6f2dd-a0b7-491e-8924-c4ed8e8ad5c6/DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Subscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod--------------------------------------------------The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every other few weeks - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.--------------------------------------------------Chapters:0:00 Intro2:18 What EIP4844 Solves3:58 Understanding Blobs6:38 Rullup are Buses on the Highway8:25 Gas Market & Blob Congestion9:38 Post EIP4844 Transaction Costs10:43 The Cost Structure of Rollups13:08 The Role of EIPs in Ethereum Upgrades20:45 Base's Increase in Transactions22:59 EIP4844 Changes Recap28:50 Base's Gas Fee Rise30:15 Monitoring the Migration34:38 Blob Target and Limit36:36 Optimising Blob Usage and Fullness41:32 Fee Market Activation43:05 Blob Usage of Different Rollups45:43 Current Gas Costs48:48 Controversy and Potential Economic Attacks51:49 Estimating Savings54:28 Transaction Costs Reduction57:16 Comparing L2 Fees59:57 Rollups Impact on Gas Fees01:02:32 Better UX and Subsidised Fees01:04:06 Security Considerations01:08:02 Competition and Blob Tx Issues01:11:00 Closing Thoughts--------------------------------------------------Links:https://gov.optimism.io/t/upgrade-proposal-5-ecotone-network-upgrade/7669https://vote.optimism.io/proposals/95119698597711750186734377984697814101707190887694311194110013874163880701970https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4844https://www.eip4844.com/https://docs.optimism.io/builders/chain-operators/management/blobs#switch-to-using-blobshttps://twitter.com/MSilb7/status/1768011481998581817https://dune.com/oplabspbc/l1-da-usage-by-rollups-eip4844?Trailing+Days_n6fe8f=28https://dune.com/oplabspbc/blobbers-oplabspbchttps://dune.com/0xRob/blobshttps://dune.com/hildobby/blobshttps://twitter.com/hildobby_/status/1768208410175271028/photo/1https://dune.com/oplabspbc/welovetheblobshttps://dune.com/oplabspbc/op-stack-chains-l1-activityhttps://dune.com/oplabspbc/superchain-l2-economicshttps://dune.com/oplabspbc/optimism-l2-l1-economicshttps://dune.com/oplabspbc/superchain-op-chains-apps-and-project-usage-trendshttps://fees-growthepie.streamlit.app/https://www.gasfees.io/https://warpcast.com/liam.eth/0xe803a9eehttps://twitter.com/liamihorne/status/1768629991007195409https://warpcast.com/proto/0xa43591d3https://twitter.com/protolambda/status/1764690016037667234DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/show/6V1lU1ZvNia4lP00jJmpCGSubscribe to our channel and leave a comment to help us make the pod better!Follow the Indexed Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/indexed_pod--------------------------------------------------The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every other few weeks - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.--------------------------------------------------Chapters:00:00 - Intro05:30 - Week in Denver Recap10:46 - Blast Launch Details17:20 - Bitcoin Layer 2 Discussion25:49 - NFT Cycle Comparison37:18 - Bitcoin ETF Flows Analysis (Part 1)54:30 - Start of Solana Memecoins Discussion01:27:09 - Outro--------------------------------------------------Links:https://www.theblock.co/data/on-chain-metrics/bitcoin/lightning-networks-capacity-dailyhttps://defillama.com/chain/Stackshttps://x.com/tayvano_/status/1708630905634664862?s=20https://www.cryptoslam.io/collectionshttps://defillama.com/chain/Rootstockhttps://defillama.com/chain/Bitcoinhttps://bitcoinvisuals.com/lightninghttps://twitter.com/Pledditor/status/1767411839602700298/photo/2https://gov.uniswap.org/t/deploy-uniswap-v3-on-rootstock-bitcoin-sidechain/22466https://dune.com/hildobby/btc-etfshttps://x.com/0xmert_/status/1766496778025583036?s=46&t=CgOOIjEz_uRbAZFFRLsgAghttps://x.com/0xmert_/status/1766571426826387905?s=46&t=CgOOIjEz_uRbAZFFRLsgAghttps://birdeye.so/token/EKpQGSJtjMFqKZ9KQanSqYXRcF8fBopzLHYxdM65zcjm?chain=solanahttps://x.com/hosseeb/status/1766992065496301717?s=20https://x.com/debridgefinance/status/1767249182862324050?s=46&t=CgOOIjEz_uRbAZFFRLsgAghttps://x.com/martypartymusic/status/1767290729884529011?s=46&t=CgOOIjEz_uRbAZFFRLsgAghttps://x.com/0xmert_/status/1766531313232674931?s=46&t=CgOOIjEz_uRbAZFFRLsgAghttps://dune.com/whale_hunter/sol-trading-bothttps://dune.com/whale_hunter/bonkbothttps://dune.com/whale_hunter/banana-gun-bothttps://dune.com/whale_hunter/dex-trading-bot-warshttps://twitter.com/jito_labs/status/1766228889888514501?t=gRI2TEYZSEGnstuQJkzKdg&s=19https://x.com/aajxbt/status/1765512478316793865?s=46https://x.com/0xmert_/status/1766518201263780230?s=46&t=CgOOIjEz_uRbAZFFRLsgAghttps://x.com/0xshittrader/status/1766510574664355868?s=46&t=CgOOIjEz_uRbAZFFRLsgAghttps://x.com/0xmert_/status/1766870816220696665?s=46&t=CgOOIjEz_uRbAZFFRLsgAghttps://x.com/dbcrypt0/status/1766821203023679493?s=46&t=CgOOIjEz_uRbAZFFRLsgAgDISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every other few weeks - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.--------------------------------------------------Timestamps:00:00 Intro01:24 Exploring Farcaster05:24 Early Adoption and UX09:21 Customization and Segmentation12:45 Farcaster Meme Coins15:27 Tipping on Farcaster16:23 Differentiating Farcaster and Warpcast20:05 Frames and User Engagement24:44 Farcaster Accounts and Wallet Connections32:22 Privacy and Targeted Marketing36:16 Farcaster Revenue and Growth39:28 Introduction to Daimo44:33 Daimo Features and User Experience48:40 Polymarket01:05:30 ERC404 and Pandora01:20:28 Fractionalizing NFTs and the Concept of Rarity01:31:18 Comparing Energy Consumption of Crypto to Traditional Systems01:37:51 OutroLinks:https://farcaster.spindl.xyz/https://twitter.com/cooopahtroopa/status/1755730828934742111?s=46&t=CgOOIjEz_uRbAZFFRLsgAghttps://dune.com/shoni_eth/farcaster-protocolhttps://www.launchcaster.xyz/discoverhttps://topframes.xyz/https://frames.spindl.xyz/https://x.com/john_c_palmer/status/1754997993407651882?s=46&t=CgOOIjEz_uRbAZFFRLsgAghttps://x.com/viamirror/status/1755347215684379010?s=20https://x.com/marcov_91/status/1755229103324553528?s=46&t=CgOOIjEz_uRbAZFFRLsgAghttps://dune.com/yesyes/farcaster-users-onchain-activitieshttps://dune.com/shoni_eth/farcaster-account-analyticshttps://x.com/andrewhong5297/status/1757768085132451868?s=20https://dune.com/pixelhack/farcasterhttps://x.com/zhayitong/status/1755674609800843642?s=20https://dune.com/danning.sui/daimo-statshttps://x.com/sui414/status/1757694462380429625?s=20https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrumphttps://polymarket.com/event/will-trump-win-every-state-in-republican-nomination?tid=1707920552087https://polymarket.com/event/who-will-win-the-us-2024-republican-presidential-nomination?tid=1707920600802https://dune.com/rchen8/polymarkethttps://dune.com/0xdatawolf/polymarket-business-analyticshttps://x.com/0xQuit/status/1754853866120835239?s=20https://dune.com/novaresearch/pandora-erc404https://dune.com/queries/3425050/5751284https://x.com/0xCygaar/status/1757136657286119916?s=20https://x.com/owocki/status/1753828343755968523?s=20--------------------------------------------------DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.

The Indexed Podcast discusses hot topics, trendy metrics and chart crimes in the crypto industry every other few weeks - brought to you by wizards @hildobby @0xBoxer @sui414.--------------------------------------------------Timestamps of each section:00:00 Intro01:13 Flashbots' Research on DEX Volumeshttps://x.com/0xangelfish/status/1747720921673277684?s=2002:51 Quantifying Retail Demand & Liquidity04:00 Understanding the Sankey Diagramhttps://orderflow.art/08:48 Order Flow Auction & Private Mempool11:12 Exploring the Solver Model17:27 Complexity of the DEX Landscape19:58 Direct Integration with Market Makers23:29 Centralization Risks & Critiques28:43 Inscriptions on Bitcoin & EVM Chainshttps://dune.com/dataalways/ordinalshttps://dune.com/hildobby/inscriptions42:13 Bitcoin ETFshttps://dune.com/hildobby/btc-etfshttps://x.com/hildobby_/status/1752348791296954806?s=20https://dune.com/21shares/arkb-bitcoin-holdingshttps://twitter.com/hildobby_/status/1752336293537943613?s=2001:01:10 Jupiter Airdrop & Comparing crosschain Statshttps://twitter.com/MoonOverlord/status/1751797732577018286?s=20https://decrypt.co/214622/solana-flips-ethereum-defi-trading-jupiter-airdrop-nearshttps://dune.com/decrypto_space/state-of-ethereum-scalinghttps://dune.com/ilemi/solana-dex-metrics01:13:56 Closing Remarks--------------------------------------------------DISCLAIMER: All information presented here should not be relied upon as legal, financial, investment, tax or even life advice. The views expressed in the podcast are not representative of hosts' employers views. We are acting independently of our respective professional roles.