# notes and resources on protocol economy

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## 🛵 design

### proposer-builder separation

* [notes on pbs, by barnabe.eth](https://barnabe.substack.com/p/pbs)
  - thoughts on in-protocol pbs, market structure and allocation mechanism, whole vs. partial block building, block vs. slot auctions, inclusion lists, capturing true pbs value via consensus bid and protocol capture.
  
* [decentralizing the builder role, by j. charbonneau](https://joncharbonneau.substack.com/p/decentralizing-the-builder-role)


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### eip-1559

* [transaction fee mechanism design for ethereum, by tim roughgarden](https://timroughgarden.org/papers/eip1559.pdf)
  - thoughts on how eip-1559 proposes a major change to ethereum's transaction fee mechanism, the market for ethereum transactions, incentive-compatible transaction fee mechanisms, and alternative designs.

* [congestion control and eip1559, by barnabe.eth](https://barnabe.substack.com/p/congestion-control-and-eip1559)

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### mev-smoothing

* [burning mev through block proposer auctions, by domothy](https://ethresear.ch/t/burning-mev-through-block-proposer-auctions/14029)


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### algorithmic game theory

* [algorithmic game theory, by tim roughgarden](https://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/papers/cacm.pdf)