Flashbots

Flashbots is a research and development organization working on mitigating the negative externalities of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) extraction techniques and avoiding the existential risks MEV could cause to stateful blockchains like Ethereum. Our primary focus is to enable a permissionless, transparent, and fair ecosystem for MEV extraction. This falls under three goals: Bringing Transparency to MEV Activity, Democratizing Access to MEV Revenue and Enabling Fair Redistribution of MEV Revenue.

Our efforts are separated into three sub-organizations:

• Product: an engineering effort to build products to fulfill our mission. This includes the Flashbots Auction with the Flashbots Relay, the Flashbots Protect RPC, MEV-Inspect, MEV-Explore and MEV-Boost.
• Coordination: an organizational effort to streamline operational processes, interface with external teams in the ecosystem and scale ourselves to maximize the organization's impact.
• Research: an open, transparent, and collaborative research effort to tackle short and long term research questions relevant to MEV.

Flashbots Research and Product are tightly-coupled dual engines that propel the organization in a phased approach:

• Long-term oriented research efforts spec out and update our roadmap, define our organization’s phases and identify key milestones associated with each of them;
• Milestone-oriented engineering efforts ship core infrastructure and ecosystem tools, while collecting data and producing other artifacts that feed back into research.

The Flashbots organization is funded by long term capital partners with a track record of alignment with the ecosystem. Our current capital partner is Paradigm.

Join us!

We are not your typical project, we are fully remote and our principles are based on that of a pirate hacker collective. If you are a self-directed individual who puts collective success above your own and are motivated by solving hard problems with asymmetric impact, you will fit right in.

• open job positions - full-time roles we're actively recruiting for.
• MEV research fellowship - we issue research grants to flashbots research proposals submitters.
• flashbots part-time contractor - become a part-time contractor in Flashbots and join one of our ongoing projects. Reach out to the team to learn more!
• nothing fits in the above? reach out at [email protected]

Community

You can interact with Flashbots on Discord and Github. There are dedicated channels on Discord for each of our efforts, we welcome your questions and contributions. Our work is open source and you can follow our progress in each repository of the Flashbots organization.

We hold several recurring community calls: bi-monthly MEV Roasts, monthly-ish research workshops and ad-hoc MEV events. Access past recordings of Roasts and community calls here, and of research workshops here.

More information

Read about our mission.
New to MEV? Here's where to get started.
Protect yourself against frontrunning with the Flashbots Protect RPC.
Use the Flashbots Auction as a searcher.
Use the Flashbots Auction as a miner.
Explore MEV activity with MEV-explore and the MEV dashboard.
Run MEV-Inspect to query Ethereum MEV data.

Other Links
Discord
Documentation
Transparency reports
Blog
Youtube
Public calendar
Status