Stephane Gosselin, co-founder of Flashbots, has resigned from the maximal extracted value (MEV) service due to the ongoing disagreements with the team. Following The Merge a relative consolidation of Ethereum validators on popular staking pools that use Flashbots relays occurred. The MEV’s decision to ignore transactions from sanctioned mixing service Tornado cash raised criticism that Flashbots support censorship on the blockchain. As per Gosselin,it is crucial to preserve censorship resistance for a diverse and competitive MEV ecosystem