Reminiscences of an MEV Operator
In this episode of Deeply Intents (🎙️,🎧), I talk to @0xTaker (MEV janitor of ) about his journey in crypto beginning with Bitcoin, progressing to building exchanges, operating as a market maker, and co-founding Aori. 0xTaker takes us down the MEV rabbit hole. We cover welfare maximization, ASS, and Intents.
Later, we spent time discussing chain abstraction through the lens of user experience and coming out on the other side with a discussion on culture based protocol development. We also discussed tokens. In particular, their different use cases. In the final segment 0xTaker opens up about his personal philosophy of building remote startups, autonomy, and purpose.
0:00 - Origins
1:26 - Starting with gaming
6:10 - Bitcoin solving payments in 2014
7:21 - Building an exchange
19:36 - Down the MEV rabbit hole
26:50 - Welfare maxing
29:55 - ASS Experimentation
33:04 - Intents
37:04 - Hyperfinancialization
42:18 - Accelerationsim
46:23 - Chain Abstraction
53:36 - Chain Abstraction is inevitable
58:18 - Protocol development & Aggregation
1:00:41 - Culture, Product, Brand
1:05:00 - User experience
1:09:49 - Aggregation breakouts
11:11:16 - Talk about tokens
1:16:36 - Trust me bro tokens
1:25:18 - VC backed infra tokens
1:28:35 - Token use cases
1:37:50 - Building remote startups
1:42:57 - Autonomy vs. employment
1:46:18 - Advice to a younger self
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