I’ve made the difficult decision to shut down @AstriaOrg's development corporation.
We have several exceptional engineers we’re looking to place into new jobs, please reach out ([email protected] or @Jskybowen here/TG) if you're interested in chatting with them.
Decentralized AI is an enormous grift by people who have no idea what the AI compute supply chain looks like.
You are not going to buy $3.5B of H100s and build a data center with a DAO.
Why Shared Sequencers Didn't Work
In this thread I'll go over some high level definitions and then briefly cover my biased perspective on why Astria built a shared sequencer and why this didn't work how people thought it would.
The protocol allows the proposer to reorder and censor transactions unilaterally. That is what creates MEV, not PBS auctions or any other out of protocol system. Fix the protocol if you want to fix MEV.