The research vault is a collection of resources related to MEV research. We encourage you to contribute to this vault by submitting a PR with your own suggestions for additions to this list!
Below is a selection of resources from our vault to get you started on your MEV journey:
Ethereum is a Dark Forest by Dan Robinson
How To Get Front-Run on Ethereum mainnet by Scott Bigelow
On The Instability Of Bitcoin Without The Block Reward by Carlsten et. al.
Quantifying MEV: Introducing MEV-Explore v0
Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest? by Qin et. al.
How To Get Front-Run on Ethereum mainnet by Scott Bigelow
High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges by Zhou et. al
Fair Sequencing Services: Enabling a Provably Fair DeFi Ecosystem by Juels et. al. (Chainlink)
Blinder: MPC Based Scalable and Robust Anonymous Committed Broadcast by Ittai Abraham et. al.
Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system by Leslie Lamport
On The Instability Of Bitcoin Without The Block Reward by Carlsten et. al.
SoK: Transparent Dishonesty: Front-running Attacks on Blockchain by Eskandari et. al.
MEV auctions considered harmful by Ed Felten (Offchain Labs)
Order-Fairness for Byzantine Consensus by Kelkar et. al.
Order-Fair Consensus in the Permissionless Setting by Kelkar et. al.
Wendy, the Good Little Fairness Widget by Klaus Kursawe
MAD-HTLC: Because HTLC is Crazy-Cheap to Attack(extended version) by Tsabary et. al.
Tesseract: Real-Time Cryptocurrency Exchange Using Trusted Hardware by Bentov et. al
Submarine Sends by Breidenbach et. al.
TEX – A Securely Scalable Trustless Exchange by Khalil et. al.
Spam resistant block creator selection via burn auction by Barry Whitehat
SoK: Algorithmic Incentive Manipulation Attacks on Permissionless PoW Cryptocurrencies. Financial Crypto 21 video
TXSPECTOR: Uncovering Attacks in Ethereum from Transactions
Ethereum is a Dark Forest by Dan Robinson
Escaping the Dark Forest by Sam Sun
Scaling DeFi: Layer One by Remco Bloemen
ZK Podcast: Flashbots with Phil Daian and Stephane Gosselin
Dark Forest Escape Route Starkware whiteboard session video recording
ETHOnline - 'Phil & Georgios Talk Miner Extractable Value'
IC3 Blockchain Camp 2020 - Phil Daian - "DeFi Composability - Friend or Foe?"
Gas Wars: Understanding Ethereum’s Mempool & Miner Extractable Value by Uncommon Core podcast
The Alchemy of Hashpower (Part II) by Leo Zhang
Exploring DeFi Trading Strategies: Arbitrage in DeFi by Alex Obadia
How to munch on pickles from a whale dinner by Tomasz Mierzwa
Portion of Daily Gas Used by Backrunning Bot Contracts by Phillipe Castonguay
Gas Gambits - Game Theory Example of Incentivized Collaboration by KeeperDAO
Phantom TX: a dark pool for Ethereum transactions
Scrooge-McEtherface: attack tool that loots Ether from vulnerable smart contracts
Surrogeth: Tricking frontrunners into being transaction relayers
Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) Protection on a DAG
B.Protocol: A Decentralized Backstop Liquidity Protocol
Gas Now (Sparkpool): ETH Gas Price quotation system based on Pending transactions
What diagrams exist to illustrate the Ethereum blockchain creation process?