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Celebrating Hop Community Call #9

GitPOAP (gitpoap.io) and EthStaker (twitter.com/ethstaker) cohost Alex Stokes (twitter.com/ralexstokes), a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation who's currently specializing in MEV. We'll talk about his project (github.com/ralexstokes/mev-rs), MEV in general (if you don't understand what MEV is, this is a good place to start!), Alex Stokes the human and, as always, how you can contribute to projects at the heart of the Ethereum ecosystem.

On Wednesday, August 17th @ 4:00PM UTC the EthStaker crew will be joined by members of the Swell team. We'll learn more about Swell's permissionless, non-custodial, and liquid staking options - In addition to understanding more about who the team who supports swell, their mission, and what they're planning for in the future in a post-merge world. As always we'll be distributing an official EthStaker Community Call POAP for those who attend the livestream, for those who can't attend the live event, the recording will be published on the EthStaker YouTube channel.