Postcards from the cutting edge of Gas research: what you don’t know can hurt you & your users
Duration: 00:07:14
Speaker: Matt Cutler
Type: Lightning Talk
Expertise: Intermediate
Event: Devcon
Date: Nov 2024
In July of 2024, we shared original research describing how the interaction between privately transmitted transactions and altruistic self-built blocks unexpectedly increase Base Fee volatility (see references below). We also warned that this effect would likely get more pronounced as private transaction share continues to grow. In this session we will revisit our original findings but with 4 months of additional data and deeper investigative research. Has gas price volatility increased as predi
