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+## Flashbots
+
+* Flashbots is a research and development organization focused on mitigating the negative externalities of current MEV extraction techniques and avoiding the existential risks MEV could cause to state-rich blockchains like Ethereum.
+
+* Flashbots try to move the problem to another area to prevent clogging up the Ethereum network and giving it more clarity. I works by reducing MEV's complexity by three fronts:
+    - tools to inspect and quantize the impact of MEV. This helps reduce the information asymmetry and people can understand the problem and its impact better. (MEV-Inspect).
+    - Democratize the extraction of MEV. The power to extract MEV exists in the hands of few people so they provide tools for everyone to start extracting MEV. (MEV-Geth)
+    - Distribute the benefit of MEV. Currently, the miners and validators extract a disproportionate amount of benefits. So it’s important to redistribute these to all the participants.
+
+
+### The auction architecture relies on 3 parties:
+
+- searcher: bots looking for access to blockspace, users frontrunning protection on their transactions, and dappas with advanced use cases
+- relay
+- miner
+
+
+## `mev-inspect-py`
+
+Tool to inspect maximal extractable value for Ethereum: [mev-inspect-py](https://github.com/flashbots/mev-inspect-py).
+If shows: miner payments, tokens transfers and profit, swaps and arbritages.
+
+#### Pre-requisites: 
+
+- [k8s's kind](https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/)
+- docker
+- [helm](https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/)
+- an `RPC_URL`
+
+## MEV-geth
+
+* Software which can be run by miners to mitgate negative externalities of MEV.