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# Awesome-MEV

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](https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05234), 2019 [[Video]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR1v7AQ8i3k)

    - [Front-running dynamics](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022053107000798?via%3Dihub), 2008

    - [SoK: Transparent Dishonesty: Front-Running Attacks on Blockchain](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3369236), 2019

    - [The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2388265), 2015

- [Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.03810.pdf), 2020

- [High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges](https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14021), 2020

- [Order Fairness for Byzantine Consensus](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-56877-1_16), 2020

- [Combining GHOST and Casper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03052), 2020

- [Frontrunning on Automated Decentralized Exchange in Proof Of Stake Environment](https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1206), 2020

- [Frontrunner Jones and the Raiders of the Dark Forest: An Empirical Study of Frontrunning on the Ethereum Blockchain](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.03347.pdf)

- [Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.05511.pdf), 2021 [[Video]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lop03OWhzU)

- [Estimating (Miner) Extractable Value is Hard, Let’s Go Shopping!](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1231), 2021

- [On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in DeFi Protocols](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.02228.pdf), 2021

- [Cyclic Arbitrage in Decentralized Exchanges](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3487553.3524201), 2021

- [Maximizing Extractable Value from Automated Market Makers](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.01870.pdf), 2021

- [Analyzing and Preventing Sandwich Attacks in Ethereum](https://pub.tik.ee.ethz.ch/students/2021-FS/BA-2021-07.pdf), 2021

- [Themis: Fast, Strong Order-Fairness in Byzantine Consensus](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1465.pdf), 2021

- [A2MM: Mitigating Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.07371.pdf)

- [Opportunistic Algorithmic Double-Spending: How I learned to stop worrying and hedge the Fork](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1182), 2021

- [Your Smart Contracts Are Not Secure: Investigating Arbitrageurs and Oracle Manipulators in Ethereum](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3474374.3486916), 2021

- [SOK: Mitigation of Frontrunning in Decentralized Finance](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1628.pdf), 2021

- [Is Blockchain Becoming More Centralized? Evidence on Collusion in the Ethereum Blockchain](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3940678), 2021

- [Unity is Strength: A Formalization of Cross-Domain Maximal Extractable Value](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.01472.pdf), 2021

- [FairBlock: Preventing Blockchain Front-running with Minimal Overheads](https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1066.pdf), 2022

- [FairTraDEX: A Decentralised Exchange Preventing Value Extraction](https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/155), 2022

- [Extracting Godl [sic] from the Salt Mines: Ethereum Miners Extracting Value](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.15930.pdf), 2022

- [TWAP Oracle Attacks: Easier Done than Said?](https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/445.pdf), 2022

- [F3B: A Low-Latency Commit-and-Reveal Architecture to Mitigate Blockchain Front-Running](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.08529.pdf), 2022

- [A Flash(bot) in the Pan: Measuring Maximal Extractable Value in Private Pools](https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04185), 2022

- [Towards a Theory of Maximal Extractable Value I: Constant Function Market Makers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.11835), 2022

- [Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) Protection on a DAG](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.00940), 2022

- [Price of MEV: Towards a Game Theoretical Approach to MEV](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13464), 2022

- [An Empirical Study on Ethereum Private Transactions and the Security Implications ](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02858), 2022

- [Improving Proof of Stake Economic Security via MEV

Redistribution](http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ksk/files/MEV_Redistribution.pdf), 2022

- [The spectre and spectra of Miner Extractable Value](https://angeris.github.io/papers/mev-symmetric.pdf), 2023



# Articles 

- [The Cost of Decentralization in 0x and EtherDelta](https://hackingdistributed.com/2017/08/13/cost-of-decent/), 2017

- [Ethereum is a Dark Forest](https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest), 2020

- [Escaping the Dark Forest](https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/09/escaping-the-dark-forest), 2020

- [Ethereum Docs on MEV](https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/mev/)

- [MEV-SGX -- A sealed bid MEV auction design](https://writings.flashbots.net/research/mev-sgx), 2021

- [On the formalization of MEV](https://writings.flashbots.net/research/formalization-mev), 2021

- [MEV in ETH 2.0, an early exploration](https://writings.flashbots.net/research/mev-eth2), 2021

- [MEV and Cooridnation](https://noma.substack.com/p/mev-and-coordination), 2021

- [MEV... Wat Do?](https://pdaian.com/blog/mev-wat-do/), 2021

- [MEV... Do This](https://pmcgoohan.medium.com/mev-do-this-beb2754bca63), 2021

- [MEV and ME](https://research.paradigm.xyz/MEV), 2021

- [Proposer/Block-builder Separation](https://ethresear.ch/t/proposer-block-builder-separation-friendly-fee-market-designs/9725), 2021

- [Two-slot proposer/builder separation](https://ethresear.ch/t/two-slot-proposer-builder-separation/10980), 2021

- [MEV and EIP-1559](https://hackmd.io/@flashbots/MEV-1559), 2021

- [Anatomy of an MEV Strategy: Synthetix](https://bertcmiller.com/2021/09/05/mev-synthetix.html), 2021

- [MEV-Boost: Merge ready Flashbots Architecture](https://ethresear.ch/t/mev-boost-merge-ready-flashbots-architecture/11177), 2021

- [The future of MEV](https://fbifemboy.substack.com/p/the-future-of-maximal-extractable), 2022

- [Order Flows: Kingmaker of the Block Builders](https://noxx.substack.com/p/order-flows-kingmaker-of-the-block), 2022

- [DEX Arbitrage, Mathematical Optimisations & Me](https://noxx.substack.com/p/dex-arbitrage-mathematical-optimisations), 2022

- [Mev marketplaces and their evolution - Part 1](https://mirror.xyz/0xshittrader.eth/WiV8DM3I6abNMVsXf-DqioYb2NglnfjmM-zSsw2ruG8), 2022

- [Mev markets and proof of stake - Part 2](https://mirror.xyz/0xshittrader.eth/c6J_PCK87K3joTWmLEtG6qVN6BFXLBZxQniReYSEjLI), 2022

- [Mev markets: payments for order flow - Part 3](https://mirror.xyz/0xshittrader.eth/f2VSuoZ91vAbCv82MtWM-Gosyf_DeUXfPlDx3EYV3RM), 2022

- [Mev Impact on Uniswap](https://eigenphi.io/report/mev-impact-on-uniswap) by Eigenphi, 2022



# Lecture/Podcasts

- [Blockchain 101: Transaction lifecycle & the mempool](https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/44), 2018

- ["Miner Extractable Value with Phil & Georgios" - Georgios Konstantopoulos & Phil Daian](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv0CkmcoGkM), 2020

- [Flashbots Research Workshop playlist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDpdktixG5w&list=PLRHMe0bxkuelLKy7oN409xqG_adEjYtxB), 2020

- [Investing in DeFi Paradigms | Charlie Noyes (MEV discussion starts around 1:00:00)](http://podcast.banklesshq.com/26-eth-has-to-be-money-charlie-noyes), 2020

- [Understanding MEV - with Georgios Konstantopoulos, Dan Robinson, and Hasu](https://anchor.fm/uncommoncore/episodes/Understanding-MEV---with-Georgios-Konstantopoulos--Dan-Robinson--and-Hasu-ejtp3j), 2020

- [Monsters in the Mempool with Dan Robinson from Paradigm](https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/153), 2020

- [Interview with a Searcher, Uncommon Core](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jfSlDvH77k), 2021

- [Defi Security 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIHa2GQJY1k), 2021 - Defi MOOC

- [Mev Summit playlist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfkzLlcb4kw&list=PLRHMe0bxkuelaa4Crh8sSrWNP1BHfPpqY), 2021

- [Interchain Conversations II - Options for Achieving Interoperability](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdnQUIPeIzY), 2021

- [Flashbots with Phil Daian and Stephane Gosselin](https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/168), 2021

- [Flashbots – The Good, Bad and the Ugly of MEV](https://epicenter.tv/episodes/389/), 2021

- [Paradigm’s Thesis – w/ Charlie Noyes, Georgios Konstantopoulos and Hasu [+transcript]](https://uncommoncore.co/25-episode-charlie-noyes-georgios-konstantopoulos-and-hasu/), 2021

- [rypto’s Existential Threat | MEV Panel: Phil Daian, Georgios Konstanopolus, Charlie Noyes](http://podcast.banklesshq.com/66-cryptos-existential-threat-mev-panel-phil-daian-georgios-konstanopolus-charlie-noyes), 2021

- [A Dip into the Mempool & MEV with Project Blanc](https://zeroknowledge.fm/216-2/), 2021

- [Dark Forest and 0xPARC with Gubsheep](https://zeroknowledge.fm/226-2/), 2022

- [Flash Loans, Miner Extractable Value and Efficient Settlement - Joint with Alfred Lehar (Calgary)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fHgAAKR9u8), 2022

- [MEV on ETH2 by Vitalik Buterin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD54WfVuDWw), 2022

- [MEV Day playlist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhxIjEnhutw&list=PLRHMe0bxkuel3w3C7P_WVvp9ShLi3HKRI), 2022

- [Stanford Blockchain Conference, MEV Workshop Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JmER64a0Xk), 2022

- Block Builder Innovation Post Merge by Alex stokes, 2022 [[Slides]](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gU3sBviud5WKrbytAnKa8gijVG_uC8weJ8KXfy6u30U/edit#slide=id.p)

- Probablistic Liquidity Attacks by Tarun Chitra, 2022 [[Slides]](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kCsmC52Jbhj8bpQMMo3-Z92P6L5E5hxl/view)

- [Dive Back into MEV with Alex Stokes and Chris Hager](https://zeroknowledge.fm/243-2/)

- [Cost of Feudalism by Tarun Chitra and Guillermo Angeris, Devcon 2022](https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/6/cost-of-feudalism-towards-a-theory-of-mev/?tab=YouTube)

- [Block Building after the merge by Alex Stokes, Devcon 2022](https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/6/block-building-after-the-merge/?tab=YouTube)

- [This is MEV by Sxysun, Devcon 2022](https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/6/this-is-mev/?tab=YouTube)

- [ETH Denver 2023, Flashbots Day](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRHMe0bxkueljZryWVd9CE8Xgl8WelLTr)

- [MEVconomics.wtf Summit, 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3sL0sCJFzk)



# Twitter Threads

- [Bert Miller, Flashbots, Thread of threads on MEV](https://twitter.com/bertcmiller/status/1402665992422047747), 2021 and updating

- [MEV on Solana by Misaka](https://twitter.com/0xmisaka/status/1506318206281170964?s=20&t=oyP3aDxxL20dGcwdmmUelQ)

- [Thogard on Private Order Flow and MEV](https://twitter.com/ThogardPvP/status/1565966198063345664?s=20&t=LP7_yqy5JGXMij-fGhrFGQ), 2022



# Codebases

- [Arbitrage Examples by ControlCplusControlV](https://github.com/ControlCplusControlV/Arbitrage-Example)

- [Lido MEV: Withdrawal NFT by jackqack](https://github.com/jackqack/lido-mev)



# Dashboards

- [MEV Explore](https://explore.flashbots.net/)

- [Real-time MEV live stream](https://eigenphi.io/ethereum/txr)

- [mevboost.org](https://www.mevboost.org/)

- [MEV Boost Dashboard](http://mevboost.pics/) by [Nero_eth](https://twitter.com/nero_eth)



# Other Resources

- [Quantifying Total MEV - A list of resources](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/quantifying-total-extracted-mev-a-list-of-resources/936/1) by Alex Obadia, Flashbots 2022

- [Flashbots - MEV Research Repository](https://github.com/flashbots/mev-research) - 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.