Committee-driven MEV smoothing

Interesting proposal but I think the 4 second liveness requirement needs to be more seriously considered. IMHO the first principles for any design need to be - does this proposal increase ethereum’s consensus stability and censorship resistance against wealthy and state-level actors.

If I summarise (please correct me if I’m wrong)

Pros:

  • more consensus stability due to less reorgs
  • fairer MEV distribution which leads to less centralisation of validator pools which leads to less coercive control on ethereum by nation states

Cons:

  • easier for state level actors to disrupt the network with bad network conditions or incentivised DOS
  • harder to run validators through private networks such as mixnets and Tor [1][2]

More exploration of cons may be helpful to show that the pros are indeed more significant.

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