MEV Bots Now Clog Blockchains Faster Than They Can Scale, Flashbots Warns – Is Raw Throughput Obsolete?

A new Flashbots thesis has shown MEV Bots dominate blockchain capacity: 40 % of Solana blockspace and over half of rollup gas on Base and OP Mainnet. This spam has kept fees elevated, so Flashbots has proposed explicit MEV auctions and programmable privacy to restore efficient scaling.