Really fun day with lots of relevant talks Feeling more optimistic about the future than when the day started

MEV-SBC’25 is starting now! @0xQuintus is kicking us off with “TTEE: Marrying Cryptography and Physics”

Livestreamed next week at Science of Blockchain Conference, two projects from my group / IC3: * James Austgen: Liquefaction: Privately Liquefying Blockchain Assets * Andrés Fábrega: Voting-Bloc Entropy: A New Metric for DAO Decentralization @initc3org

How much profits does MEV bots 🤖 really make from CEX-DEX Arbitrage? No one can answer this question before, but we are excited to share a new paper measuring it with formal methods finally! (We got accepted by AFT25' !🥳) I summarized all the alpha in one pic for you 😃

New paper drop! "Measuring CEX-DEX Extracted Value and Searcher Profitability: The Darkest of the MEV Dark Forest"🌲 (aka League of Legends on Ethereum! 🎮) Coauthors: @sui414 @soispoke @malleshpai Paper: Thread 👇

Registration is open for MEV-SBC'25! 📍Aug 7 @ Berkeley This annual workshop highlights MEV research and talks to illuminate a new round of problems for the community to explore in cryptography, mechanism design, data, consensus, incentives, and their intersections link ⬇

I wrote a post to introduce my personal favorite attack idea from the first half of 2025: the MEV-phishing attack — an attack targeting the smartest bots in the MEV ecosystem.

I summarised some angles from which to tackle geographic decentralisation (incentives) problems Its one of the most important problems in the broader crypto mission and very understudied Link below

research 🤝 in 🤝 public

We've pulled together some of the most interesting research problems in MEV in the new Flashbots Research Problem Database ⚡🤖 It includes completed work, early ideas, WIP, and requests for research in Incentives, cryptography, PBS, TEE, data, and more!