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Articles/Papers

• 2017-08-17, The Cost of Decentralization in 0x and EtherDelta

• 2019-04-09, SoK: Transparent Dishonesty: front-running attacks on Blockchain

• 2019-04-10, Flash Boys 2.0

• 2020-05-11, Combining GHOST and Casper

• 2020-08-28, Ethereum is a Dark Forest

• 2020-09-24, Escaping the Dark Forest

• 2021-01-22, Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?

• 2021-02-05, MEV and Me

• 2021-02-09, Analysis of Uniswap Markets

• 2021-03-03, On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in DeFi Protocols

• 2021-04-12, MEV and Cooridnation

• 2021-04-15, MEV... Wat Do?

• 2021-04-28, MEV... Do This

• 2021-05-10, MEV in ETH2

• 2021-07-19, MEV and EIP-1559

• 2021-07-20, Ethereum Reorgs After The Merge

• 2021-09-05, Anatomy of an MEV Strategy: Synthetix

• 2021-09-09, Clockwork Finance: Automated Analysis of Economic Security in Smart Contracts

• 2021-12-03, Unity is Strength: A Formalization of Cross-Domain Maximal Extractable Value

• 2022-01-06, MEV: Maximal Extractable Value Pt. 1

• 2022-01-14, SoK: Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) with Automated Market Maker (AMM) Protocols

• 2022-04-11, Optimal Routing for Constant Function Market Makers

• 2022-07-18, Towards a Theory of Maximal Extractable Value I: Constant Function Market Makers

• 2022-11-22, The Future of MEV is SUAVE

• 2022-11-27, All is Fair in Arb and MEV on Avalanche C-Chain

• 2023-02-02, MEV: Maximal Extractable Value Pt. 2

• 2023-04-27, Time, slots, and the ordering of events in Ethereum Proof-of-Stake

Podcasts

• 2018-09-26, Blockchain 101: Transaction lifecycle & the mempool

• 2020-08-18, Investing in DeFi Paradigms | Charlie Noyes (MEV discussion starts around 1:00:00)

• 2020-09-20, Understanding MEV - with Georgios Konstantopoulos, Dan Robinson, and Hasu

• 2020-10-18, Monsters in the Mempool with Dan Robinson from Paradigm

• 2021-01-14, Interchain Conversations II - Options for Achieving Interoperability

• 2021-02-17, Flashbots with Phil Daian and Stephane Gosselin

• 2021-04-28, Flashbots – The Good, Bad and the Ugly of MEV

• 2021-05-15, #25 Paradigm’s Thesis – w/ Charlie Noyes, Georgios Konstantopoulos and Hasu [+transcript]

• 2021-05-21, Crypto’s Existential Threat | MEV Panel: Phil Daian, Georgios Konstanopolus, Charlie Noyes

• 2021-07-19, Interview with a Searcher - with MEV Senpai and Hasu

• 2021-02-02, A Dip into the Mempool & MEV with Project Blanc

• 2023-04-25, Interview with a Searcher 2.0 | Dean Eigenman, Anish Agnihotri

Eth Research Posts

• 2020-01-15, MEV Auction

• 2020-11-23, Flashbots: Frontrunning the MEV crisis

• 2021-04-19, Content Layer Solution

• 2021-04-31, MEV-SGX

• 2021-06-04, Proposer/Block-builder Separation

• 2021-08-23, Committee-driven MEV smoothing

• 2021-10-10, Two-slot proposer/builder separation

• 2021-11-04, MEV-Boost: Merge ready Flashbots Architecture

• 2022-10-26, Burning MEV through block proposer auctions

Presentations/Panels

Devconnect

• 2022-04-22, MEV-Day

Flashbots

• 2022-01-14, MEV in 2021: A Year In Review

Trail of Bits

• 2020-06-10, Detecting transaction replacement attacks with Manticore

Devcon4

• 2018-12-10, Smart Contract Security - Incentives Beyond the Launch by Phil Daian

ETHGlobal

• 2021-05-10, 'MEV Scaling Ethereum Panel' - Vitalik Buterin, Justin Drake, Phil Daian & others

• 2021-05-13, 'MEV on eth2 - Alex Obadia

mev.wtf

• Outline

• 2021-07-01, Recording

Ethereum Engineering Group

• 2022-01-13, MEV Attacks and how you could mitigate them with Hyperledger Besu

Twitter

• MEV Twitter List

• Bert Miller's MEV thread of threads

• Hasu on MEV impact on gas prices

Additional Resources

• https://github.com/Dogetoshi/MEV

• Flashbots: MEV Auction, Data, Research

• Automata MEV Wiki

• Awesome MEV Boost