{"id":82167,"date":"2023-07-25T20:16:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T17:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=82167"},"modified":"2025-09-12T03:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:27:24","slug":"flashbots-becomes-a-unicorn-after-a-60-million-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/flashbots-becomes-a-unicorn-after-a-60-million-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashbots becomes a unicorn after a $60 million round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure company Flashbots raised $60 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/241327\/flashbots-becomes-unicorn-after-completing-60-million-raise\\\">The Block<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the Series B round, participants included &#8220;leading venture firms&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-layer%e2%80%912-solution-in-blockchain\">L2<\/a>-projects, angel investors, developers of decentralized exchanges and other applications.<\/p>\n<p>The Flashbots team will allocate the raised funds toward building the SUAVE platform, which offers &#8220;faster and more confidential&#8221; blockchain transactions.<\/p>\n<p>The project focuses on mitigating the negative aspects of MEV, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/from-mev-to-mev-boost-is-the-invisible-tax-in-ethereum-after-the-merge-still-there\">&#8216;invisible tax&#8217; on Ethereum<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Flashbots <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/flashbots-launched-the-mev-tool-to-distribute-profits-among-users\">introduced<\/a> a beta version of the MEV-Share protocol, which distributes the &#8220;maximally extractable value&#8221; among users of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Flashbots Protect project, MEV-Share is a remote procedure call tool that can be integrated into a wallet and used to protect against MEV bots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrastructure company Flashbots raised $60 million at a $1 billion valuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1766,1231,1133],"class_list":["post-82167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-flashbots","tag-mev","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82169,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82167\/revisions\/82169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}