A settlement chain with a conscience

Steal back
the block.

ETHood is an EVM chain that intercepts extractive MEV before it reaches a searcher's wallet and routes it straight back to the trader who got sandwiched. No treasury skims it. No foundation votes on it. The take goes back to the many, every 0.9 seconds.

The take, itemized

live figures, block 2,847,116
61.8%
MEV skimmed back to senders

of every sandwiched trade returned to the wallet it was taken from, block by block.

412
Validators running the bow

independent operators, none holding more than 2.1% of stake.

0.9s
Average settlement time

from mempool to finality, before an extractor can even nock an arrow.

0
Treasury pre-mine

there is no vault to raid because there was never a vault built.

Three checkpoints on the road through the wood

Every ETHood block passes through the same tollgate. Extraction gets taxed at the protocol level — not by a searcher's conscience.

01

The ambush order

Transactions land in an encrypted mempool so searchers can't see what's coming before it's already ordered — the classic sandwich never gets a chance to draw.

02

The forest tax

Any backrun profit that does slip through gets taxed at 61.8% at the protocol layer, computed against the victim transaction's realized slippage.

03

The redistribution arrow

That tax is routed, same block, straight back to the address that got sandwiched — no claim form, no quarterly airdrop, no DAO vote required.

The Ballad of ETHood

Arrow Ishot

The Sherwood Testnet

Nine weeks, 2.3M blocks, and 96 independent node operators stress-testing the redistribution mempool under simulated sandwich attacks.

Arrow IIshot

Mainnet Draw

Genesis block signed by 41 founding validators across 14 countries. No allocation to the deployer wallet — verify it yourself, the genesis file is public.

Arrow IIInocked

The Toll Bridge

A canonical bridge from Ethereum mainnet that taxes bridging MEV the same way the base chain taxes it, instead of exempting it like every L2 currently does.

Arrow IVin the quiver

Open the Longbow SDK

Tooling for builders to ship apps that opt into redistribution by default, with an escape hatch for the ones that would rather keep their own take.

Who's under the hood

0x9f...b3e2 "Alan-a-Dale"
Lead protocol engineer

Wrote the redistribution algorithm on a napkin during a validator meetup in Ljubljana.

0x4c...71fa "Little John"
Validator ops

Runs six of the four hundred nodes and refuses to run more, on principle.

0x1a...e908 "Friar Tuck"
Economics & audits

Insisted the fee curve be published in the litepaper before a single line of Solidity shipped.

Join the band in the wood

Get the validator setup guide, testnet faucet access, and one email when mainnet redistribution numbers get published each week. No spam, no token allocation pitch.