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• Maximizing MEV requires sophisticated technical know-how and custom software appended to normal validators, making it much more likely that institutional operators outperform individuals and hobbyist validators at MEV extraction.
• Block builders become responsible for creating blocks and offering them to the block proposer in each slot
• The block proposer cannot see the contents of the block, they simply choose the most profitable one, paying a fee to the block builder before sending the block to its peers.
• it prevents hobbyist validators from being out-competed by institutional players that can better optimize the profitability of their block building.
• Third, it helps with scaling Ethereum by enabling the Danksharding upgrade

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