How MEV Bots Are Undermining Blockchain Scalability 🔎
Flashbots reports that MEV bots are now the primary obstacle to scaling blockchains.
> These bots flood networks with speculative arbitrage txs, consuming 50%+ of gas on major rollups and ~40% of blockspace on Solana.
> Meanwhile, those bots are paying less than 10% of total fees.
> On Base, just two bots generated 80% of spam traffic, absorbing nearly all of the 11M gas-per-second throughput added between Nov 2024 and Feb 2025.
> Flashbots argues this shows the problem is economic congestion, not technical capacity.
Their proposed solution is to replace gas-based competition with a two-part system: programmable privacy for MEV searchers and a separate off-chain auction for transaction ordering.
> This would reduce spam, improve fee efficiency, and open up capacity for real users and applications.
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