## 🗡🩸 mev-boost stuff
### tl,dr
* [mev-boost](https://github.com/flashbots/mev-boost#installing) is a middleware run by validators to democratize the block-building market with a implementation of [proposer-builder-separation (PBS)](https://ethresear.ch/t/proposer-block-builder-separation-friendly-fee-market-designs/9725) for proof-of-stake Ethereum.
* PBS / mev-boost smooths out the variance of validator revenue to a degree, by giving solo stakers the same chance of getting as much MEV for the blocks they propose as a large staking pool, but it doesn’t fix MEV driven validator centralisation.
* pbs was initially proposed by Ethereum researchers as a response to the risk that MEV poses to decentralization of consensus networks.
* [Article: mev-boost, relays, self-sovereignty](https://mirror.xyz/mevwaifu.eth/Xo_5rIpRQpFOC__kYfjLJVOFwlSZH2n8tUnHoXo6VyI)
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### resources
* [mev-boost on a goerli validator](https://mirror.xyz/mevwaifu.eth/Xo_5rIpRQpFOC__kYfjLJVOFwlSZH2n8tUnHoXo6VyI)
* [install mev-boost in ubuntu](https://github.com/metanull-operator/eth2-ubuntu/blob/master/v2/mev-boost.md)
* [mev-boost docker image](https://hub.docker.com/r/flashbots/mev-boost)
* [dune mev-boost dashboard](https://dune.com/ChainsightAnalytics/mev-after-ethereum-merge)
* [why mev boost](https://writings.flashbots.net/writings/why-run-mevboost/)
* [mev-boost post-merge](https://ethresear.ch/t/mev-boost-merge-ready-flashbots-architecture/11177)
* [mev-boost builder stats dune](https://dune.com/ChainsightAnalytics/mev-after-ethereum-merge)
* [flashbots analysis of mev in eth2](https://github.com/flashbots/eth2-research/blob/main/notebooks/mev-in-eth2/eth2-mev-calc.ipynb)
* [ethereum specs for block builder](https://github.com/ethereum/builder-specs)
* [list of mev-boost payout addresses](https://gist.github.com/metachris/a4d10ff59cad5ffe3cf0f2c6e91fc0bc)
* [merge ready flashbots architecture](https://hackmd.io/@manifold/S1jRmGIPF)