CTO & co-founder of @Blocknative. Blockchain, streaming big data, and space enthusiast
Joined June 2008
- Tweets52
- Following147
- Followers187
- Likes63
Excited to share that I’ve joined Deloitte along with the full Blocknative team.
The past almost 8 years building Blocknative have been a defining chapter for me professionally, alongside a talented team and inside an ecosystem that never stops advancing the state of the art.
Looking ahead, our team now has the opportunity to take our work into a new context at Deloitte, focused on the intersection of blockchain, AI, and agentic workflows. More on the Blocknative transition, including the timeline for sunsetting APIs: blocknative.com
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
News to share: Blocknative team has joined Deloitte.
More on the transition, including the timeline for sunsetting APIs:
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
It’s live!
Capture the Gap is now live at game.gas.network
> Push fresh gas data onchain.
> Earn points for contributing to an onchain public good.
> Climb the leaderboard and unlock new tiers. 🏆
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
GM frens! Please say hello to Gas Network ⛽️🛜 by @Blocknative: a new distributed gas oracle protocol designed to bring clarity (and sanity) to transaction pricing across all chains. Ready to ditch the gas fee guesswork? 🧵1/10
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
It's been one year since The Merge. And in that time, there have been significant advancements that have redefined the @Ethereum ecosystem w/ both positive and negative impacts on the network, its end-users, and the critical actors in the MEV supply chain.
Blocknative PM @sajidazouarhi breaks down some of the key lessons we've learned this past year, including:
✅The pursuit of maximum profits fuels centralization at the core of the network.
✅Vertically integrated Searcher/Builders have proven positive economics, while credibly neutral Builders struggle to find margin and hence revenue/profitability.
✅MEV-Boost Relay operations are effectively 100% risk, 0% reward.
✅Based on the latest in ePBS research, trusted third-party Relays at the core of the network will be a fact of life for the foreseeable future.
✅Sanctions – and OFAC SDN specifically – played an unexpected role in shaping staking and PBS landscape.
✅Promises of ‘protecting’ users from the adverse effects of MEV remain to be fully proven out.
Check out the full post for a deep dive 👇
blocknative.com/blog/one-yea…
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
Feeling FOMO from missing our presentation on Latency Wars yesterday? Luckily we recorded it 🤓
Learn more about the constant fight for lower latency and the critical nuances and strategies used in the PBS ecosystem to reduce latency.
blocknative.com/latency-wars…
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
1/14 A new mental model to help wrap your mind around #ERC4337: 4337 adds a new “user intent layer” upstream/on top of the existing transaction flow.
The big unlock (for me at least): working backwards from the current Ethereum EOA model. 🧵
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
Absolutely thrilled to continue backing and working closely with the entire Blocknative team
From the co-founders to the most recent hires, this is a truly world class team that keeps the best interests of Ethereum (and crypto more broadly) at the core of what they do
1/ Couldn’t be happier to share that our team at @Blocknative has closed an additional $15M financing to build blocks for Ethereum mainnet. As co-founder & CEO, it is both humbling and satisfying to see it all come together 4.5 years into our journey. 🧵👇 fortune.com/crypto/2022/12/1…
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
1/ Couldn’t be happier to share that our team at @Blocknative has closed an additional $15M financing to build blocks for Ethereum mainnet. As co-founder & CEO, it is both humbling and satisfying to see it all come together 4.5 years into our journey. 🧵👇 fortune.com/crypto/2022/12/1…
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
MEV is an unexpected black hole in the ethereum security budget and PBS is our best shot at mitigating its effects. I'm excited to announce that @blocknative we're helping slay the beast by open sourcing our relay implementation dreamboat🛳️ github.com/blocknative/dream…
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
Happy to announce $12 million in new Series A financing, enabling us to scale our core transaction monitoring infrastructure as well as collaborate deeply with an incredible investor roster of top Web3 operators and thought-leaders.
Read on for more, or blocknative.com/blog/series-…
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
“Something wicked this way comes.” Simulation Platform is a _monster_ release from our team and an important step forward in leveling the playing field across the Ethereum ecosystem. For clarity, we are simulating the entire mempool in *real-time*. 🛳⛴🚢
✨🔮✨
Introducing Blocknative Simulation Platform — a net-new capability for the #Ethereum ecosystem that unlocks profit potential for traders & helps protocols intercept malicious transactions.
Read the post and/or read on to learn more 👇
blocknative.com/blog/simulat…
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
In our latest post, @ChrisMeisl covers the fundamentals of #Ethereum transaction simulation — and how to see inside pending internal transactions.
blocknative.com/blog/what-is…
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
The mempool is a dark forest
It's filled with money-hungry apex predators
But it doesn't have to be scary
We just need the tools & resources to navigate it
@mcutler shares his knowledge w/ the Bankless Nation
Let's explore the dark forest:
bankless.substack.com/p/expl…
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
For the first official episode of Proof-of-Usability, I’m re-releasing @blocknative @mcutler’s fantastic chat from back in March.
anchor.fm/z-herring/episodes…
Why should you listen to Matt about building products people want? Uh, because he’s a boss. Literally.
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
🚨 Mempool Congestion Alert 🚨
We are seeing sustained high rates of transaction eviction over the past several days.
For more on the impact of transaction eviction, see our Black Thursday post: blog.blocknative.com/blog/me…
ALT Rapid Increase In Transaction Eviction Due to Mempool Congestion
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
🚨 A must-read post by @austinrobertsiv on the @open_relay DoS attacks.
Read this series to understand:
🔨 how the Denial of Service attack occurred
🔒 how Blocknative helped to secure their infrastructure
💭 thoughts on ethical hacking
hubs.ly/H0tthwm0
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
1/14
Just published: “Evidence of Mempool Manipulation on Black Thursday: Hammerbots, Mempool Compression, and Spontaneous Stuck Transactions”
blog.blocknative.com/blog/me…
⬇️
Chris Meisl | Blocknative | Gas Network ⛽️ retweeted
Mempool Archive Findings:
1⃣ We detected the TX in all of our mempools (EU, US, & Asia) ~5 sec. (2 blocks) before it was confirmed
2⃣ All of our regions saw the tx within ~1.5 sec. of each other - typical of propagation latency
Source data: hubs.ly/H0rmCLS0
