Awesome-MEV
September 2, 2023 · View on GitHub
A list of MEV resources with a focus on past research papers/talks, Will also provide interesting citations from papers whenever apt/possible.
Research
- Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges, 2019 [Video]
- Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit, 2020
- High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges, 2020
- Order Fairness for Byzantine Consensus, 2020
- Combining GHOST and Casper, 2020
- Frontrunning on Automated Decentralized Exchange in Proof Of Stake Environment, 2020
- Frontrunner Jones and the Raiders of the Dark Forest: An Empirical Study of Frontrunning on the Ethereum Blockchain
- Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?, 2021 [Video]
- Estimating (Miner) Extractable Value is Hard, Let’s Go Shopping!, 2021
- On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in DeFi Protocols, 2021
- Cyclic Arbitrage in Decentralized Exchanges, 2021
- Maximizing Extractable Value from Automated Market Makers, 2021
- Analyzing and Preventing Sandwich Attacks in Ethereum, 2021
- Themis: Fast, Strong Order-Fairness in Byzantine Consensus, 2021
- A2MM: Mitigating Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges
- Opportunistic Algorithmic Double-Spending: How I learned to stop worrying and hedge the Fork, 2021
- Your Smart Contracts Are Not Secure: Investigating Arbitrageurs and Oracle Manipulators in Ethereum, 2021
- SOK: Mitigation of Frontrunning in Decentralized Finance, 2021
- Is Blockchain Becoming More Centralized? Evidence on Collusion in the Ethereum Blockchain, 2021
- Unity is Strength: A Formalization of Cross-Domain Maximal Extractable Value, 2021
- FairBlock: Preventing Blockchain Front-running with Minimal Overheads, 2022
- FairTraDEX: A Decentralised Exchange Preventing Value Extraction, 2022
- Extracting Godl [sic] from the Salt Mines: Ethereum Miners Extracting Value, 2022
- TWAP Oracle Attacks: Easier Done than Said?, 2022
- F3B: A Low-Latency Commit-and-Reveal Architecture to Mitigate Blockchain Front-Running, 2022
- A Flash(bot) in the Pan: Measuring Maximal Extractable Value in Private Pools, 2022
- Towards a Theory of Maximal Extractable Value I: Constant Function Market Makers, 2022
- Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) Protection on a DAG, 2022
- Price of MEV: Towards a Game Theoretical Approach to MEV, 2022
- An Empirical Study on Ethereum Private Transactions and the Security Implications , 2022
- Improving Proof of Stake Economic Security via MEV Redistribution, 2022
- The spectre and spectra of Miner Extractable Value, 2023
Articles
- The Cost of Decentralization in 0x and EtherDelta, 2017
- Ethereum is a Dark Forest, 2020
- Escaping the Dark Forest, 2020
- Ethereum Docs on MEV
- MEV-SGX -- A sealed bid MEV auction design, 2021
- On the formalization of MEV, 2021
- MEV in ETH 2.0, an early exploration, 2021
- MEV and Cooridnation, 2021
- MEV... Wat Do?, 2021
- MEV... Do This, 2021
- MEV and ME, 2021
- Proposer/Block-builder Separation, 2021
- Two-slot proposer/builder separation, 2021
- MEV and EIP-1559, 2021
- Anatomy of an MEV Strategy: Synthetix, 2021
- MEV-Boost: Merge ready Flashbots Architecture, 2021
- The future of MEV, 2022
- Order Flows: Kingmaker of the Block Builders, 2022
- DEX Arbitrage, Mathematical Optimisations & Me, 2022
- Mev marketplaces and their evolution - Part 1, 2022
- Mev markets and proof of stake - Part 2, 2022
- Mev markets: payments for order flow - Part 3, 2022
- Mev Impact on Uniswap by Eigenphi, 2022
Lecture/Podcasts
- Blockchain 101: Transaction lifecycle & the mempool, 2018
- "Miner Extractable Value with Phil & Georgios" - Georgios Konstantopoulos & Phil Daian, 2020
- Flashbots Research Workshop playlist, 2020
- Investing in DeFi Paradigms | Charlie Noyes (MEV discussion starts around 1:00:00), 2020
- Understanding MEV - with Georgios Konstantopoulos, Dan Robinson, and Hasu, 2020
- Monsters in the Mempool with Dan Robinson from Paradigm, 2020
- Interview with a Searcher, Uncommon Core, 2021
- Defi Security 2, 2021 - Defi MOOC
- Mev Summit playlist, 2021
- Interchain Conversations II - Options for Achieving Interoperability, 2021
- Flashbots with Phil Daian and Stephane Gosselin, 2021
- Flashbots – The Good, Bad and the Ugly of MEV, 2021
- Paradigm’s Thesis – w/ Charlie Noyes, Georgios Konstantopoulos and Hasu [+transcript], 2021
- rypto’s Existential Threat | MEV Panel: Phil Daian, Georgios Konstanopolus, Charlie Noyes, 2021
- A Dip into the Mempool & MEV with Project Blanc, 2021
- Dark Forest and 0xPARC with Gubsheep, 2022
- Flash Loans, Miner Extractable Value and Efficient Settlement - Joint with Alfred Lehar (Calgary), 2022
- MEV on ETH2 by Vitalik Buterin, 2022
- MEV Day playlist, 2022
- Stanford Blockchain Conference, MEV Workshop Video, 2022
- Block Builder Innovation Post Merge by Alex stokes, 2022 [Slides]
- Probablistic Liquidity Attacks by Tarun Chitra, 2022 [Slides]
- Dive Back into MEV with Alex Stokes and Chris Hager
- Cost of Feudalism by Tarun Chitra and Guillermo Angeris, Devcon 2022
- Block Building after the merge by Alex Stokes, Devcon 2022
- This is MEV by Sxysun, Devcon 2022
- ETH Denver 2023, Flashbots Day
- MEVconomics.wtf Summit, 2023
Twitter Threads
- Bert Miller, Flashbots, Thread of threads on MEV, 2021 and updating
- MEV on Solana by Misaka
- Thogard on Private Order Flow and MEV, 2022
Codebases
Dashboards
Other Resources
- Quantifying Total MEV - A list of resources by Alex Obadia, Flashbots 2022
- Flashbots - MEV Research Repository - This repository contains active "FRPs" (Flashbot research proposals) which might give you a hint of where the field is going and other research directions that have been pursued by Flashbots in MEV in past.