MEV Is Broken on Ethereum — Can Encrypted Mempools Fix It? w/ Luis Bezzenberger

MEV Is Broken on Ethereum — Can Encrypted Mempools Fix It? w/ Luis Bezzenberger

April 14, 2026 · 42 min

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The episode discusses MEV on Ethereum and the potential of encrypted mempools to protect users, featuring insights from Luis Bezzenberger.

I spoke to Luis Bezzenberger of Brainbot and core contributor to Shutter Network, about MEV and threshold encryption for encrypted mempools. Luis comes from a background in distributed systems and has spent years thinking about how cryptography can level the playing field between ordinary users and sophisticated actors who exploit the transparency of public mempools. We dig into how threshold encryption works, why encrypted mempools like what Shutter Network is building, could protect users f...

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Host: The Blockchain Socialist

Guest: Luis Bezzenberger

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