Zero Knowledge

On this week’s episode, Anna Rose and Tarun Chitra chat with Mallesh Pai, Associate Professor of Economics at Rice University. They explore mechanism design in an economic context and Mallesh’s work around MEV topics - specifically on censorship in an MEV context and within his Special Mechanism Group. The discussion takes the team back into the topic of MEV, revisiting the proposer builder separation concept and the impact that this may have on the efficiency and censorship resistance of these systems. Here’s some additional links for this episode:Episode 183: CowSwap & DAO Tech with Gnosis’s Martin Köppelmann Episode 216: A Dip into the Mempool & MEV with Project Blanc Episode 243: Dive Back into MEV with Alex Stokes and Chris HagerEpisode 249: Impact of Tornado Cash: a Builders PerspectiveEpisode 269: Auctions with Kshitij Kulkarni, Matheus V. X. Ferreira and TarunVitalik’s Blog PostSpecial Mechanism Group’s Thread on Censoring EthBlock relating to ThreadSpecial Mechanism Group’s Research Papers (w