Rollups have become a crucial piece of Ethereum’s scaling stack, offering the throughput needed to support growing user demand. But as they’ve matured, a critical issue has emerged: fee-based revenues are often insufficient to support long-term operations or infrastructure growth. This sparked a key question for us at Mythventure: What mechanisms can help rollups evolve into self-sustaining, profitable systems while staying true to user-centric values?
Our research pointed to a surprising solution: instead of viewing MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) as a threat, what if it could be reframed as a constructive economic force? That line of thinking led us to Radius, a team reengineering MEV into a transparent and aligned revenue engine for rollup ecosystems.
Why investing in Radius
Radius is crafting a new layer of economic infrastructure designed specifically for rollups, turning MEV into a strategic resource. Unlike legacy approaches that extract value at users’ expense, Radius takes a fundamentally different stance: revenue generation and user protection must go hand in hand. This philosophy instantly resonated with us.
At the core of Radius’s system is Lighthouse, a decentralized network that connects rollups with MEV searchers in a way that’s collaborative rather than adversarial. Paired with their Secure Block Building (SBB) framework, Radius empowers rollups to capture MEV efficiently—without centralizing power or sacrificing user trust. This paves the way for rollups to reinvest back into security, R&D, and community initiatives.
Radius is not just enabling new income channels—it’s redefining how value is created and redistributed across Ethereum’s modular stack.
The Team Driving Radius Forward
Radius is led by a group of highly experienced technologists and entrepreneurs who bring deep knowledge in cryptography, security, distributed computing, and Web3 economics:
- AJ Park (CEO) – A veteran of Samsung Research with over a decade of experience in cryptographic security. His work on privacy-preserving rollups and MEV-resistant protocols has earned recognition and funding from the Ethereum Foundation, laying the groundwork for Radius.
- Jongbeen Han (CTO) – A distributed systems expert with a PhD and a track record of government-backed blockchain projects in Korea, including designing a Tendermint-based consensus engine. He holds several patents and academic publications in the blockchain field.
- Tariz Jeong (CSO) – With a background that blends quantitative finance and product strategy, Tariz brings unique insight into both TradFi and DeFi, helping Radius craft market-fit solutions and build strong ecosystem positioning.
- Jayden Kim (COO) – A seasoned software engineer with 15+ years in the tech industry, including leadership roles at Samsung and experience founding a decentralized identity startup. Jayden now plays a key role in operationalizing Radius’s vision.
Mythventure is proud to invest $4M in Radius, backing their mission to give rollups the economic tools needed to thrive. Radius represents a critical leap forward in aligning incentive structures across Ethereum’s rollup-centric future.
For more information—or to get involved—visit: theradius.xyz