Casey Craig: Euphoria's Mainnet, MEV Explained + How to Rug the Ruggers | Ep 474

Goodnow revolutionaries—

Casey Craig—co-founder of Euphoria Finance and one of the sharpest builders in DeFi—is back on the show. Euphoria is tap trading: a grid overlaid on a live price chart where you tap where you think the price is going, each square its own CLOB order book, built on MegaEth for real-time execution. Final audits are incoming and mainnet is imminent.

Casey breaks down MEV from first principles—sandwich attacks, Oracle front-running, and the salmonella strategy her co-founder Nathan pioneered to rug the ruggers. Then she explains how MegaEth's architecture eliminates most MEV risk through sheer speed, and what else builders can do: MEV-blocking RPCs, solver protocols like Cowswap, and intentional settlement delays. She also gives her honest take on the state of crypto building: payments and stablecoins are the real story, tokenized equities are quietly maturing, and the retail meme coin casino isn't what serious builders are focused on.

Alex walks through why almost every major crypto is still massively overvalued by traditional revenue multiples—and why Hyperliquid remains the one exception. Plus: how to read a fake pump vs. a real one, why "two hundred billion dollars flowed into crypto" is not how market cap works, and ETH's recent move likely tied to BlackRock's new ETHB ETF inflows.

Also: the $100M licensing problem keeping Euphoria out of the US, why no current legislation addresses front-end DeFi access, what "non-KYC" crypto cards are actually doing under the hood, and whether iTrustCapital makes sense for most people (short answer: probably not).

Watch on YouTube → https://youtube.com/live/gzD5ogZP1RA

LINKS
Euphoria: testnet.euphoria.finance | x.com/euphoria_fi
Casey Craig on X: x.com/caseycraig
MegaETH: x.com/megaeth_labs
Salmonella attack (GitHub): github.com/Defi-Cartel/salmonella

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