Publishing a block 3.4 seconds late costs you 677 mETH in MEV and costs your attesters 22% of their head votes
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Every proposer using MEV-Boost faces the same tradeoff: wait longer to capture more value, but at some point your block arrives too late for attesters to see it before they commit their vote. The timing game is well-understood in theory. What hasn't been measured is exactly where the cliff is — and how steep the drop really is.
The cliff is at 3.0 seconds. What happens after it is sharper than you'd expect.