Awesome-MEV

A list of MEV resources with a focus on past research papers/talks.

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Research
Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges , 2019

Research / Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges
Front-running dynamics , 2008
SoK: Transparent Dishonesty: Front-Running Attacks on Blockchain , 2019
The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response , 2015

Research
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
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
[Slides] Block Builder Innovation Post Merge by Alex stokes, 2022
[Slides] Probablistic Liquidity Attacks by Tarun Chitra, 2022
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
Arbitrage Examples by ControlCplusControlV 109 about 2 years ago
Lido MEV: Withdrawal NFT by jackqack 8 11 months ago

Dashboards
MEV Explore
Real-time MEV live stream
mevboost.org
MEV Boost Dashboard by

Other Resources
Quantifying Total MEV - A list of resources by Alex Obadia, Flashbots 2022
Flashbots - MEV Research Repository 884 29 days ago 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

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