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1. Ethereum Foundation team debates MEV and liquid staking link Peter Szilagyi, head of the Ethereum Foundation team, and Dankrad Feist, creator of Danksharding and Ethereum Foundation researcher, engaged in a debate on MEV and scalability issues. Szilagyi argued that MEV is an attack on Ethereum, and instead of combating it, they have opted to share the profits with enough people to keep the majority silent. He further stated that liquidity staking is another attack on Ethereum, and rather than addressing it, they have promoted various cascading staking solutions, allowing everyone to choose their own “poison.” Regarding state growth, they are developing stateless validation to satisfy those who “stake their money,” while others can use certain providers who essentially have no say. On the other hand, Feist expressed that many in their community are swimming against the current, enduring significant pressure to oppose participation by large ecosystem players, yet striving to maintain ...