### canonical readings

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#### 2023

- [⭐️⭐⭐⭐ illuminating ethereum's order flow landscape, by angela lu](https://writings.flashbots.net/illuminate-the-order-flow)


#### 2022


- [⭐️⭐⭐⭐ towards a theory of mev I, by diamandis et al.](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ksk/files/MEV_CFMM.pdf)


#### 2021

- [⭐⭐⭐ mev and me, by paradigm](https://research.paradigm.xyz/MEV)
- [⭐⭐⭐ return to the dark forest, by rekt](https://rekt.news/return-to-the-dark-forest/)
- [⭐⭐⭐ hiding in plain sight, by samczsun](https://samczsun.com/hiding-in-plain-sight/)
- [⭐⭐⭐⭐ we live in a mempool, by tom schmidt](https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/we-live-in-a-mempool-backrunning-the-mev-crisis-a4ea0b493b05)
- [⭐️⭐⭐ how to light up the dark forest, by robert miller](https://writings.flashbots.net/writings/the-anatomy-of-an-inspector/)
- [⭐️⭐ the 0 to 1 guide to mev, by blockchain at berkeley](https://calblockchain.mirror.xyz/c56CHOu-Wow_50qPp2Wlg0rhUvdz1HLbGSUWlB_KX9o)
- [⭐️⭐ how to build an ethereum mining pool, by dragonfly](https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/how-to-build-an-ethereum-mining-pool-6be356520b7a)
- [⭐️⭐⭐️ how i learned to stop worrying and love mev, by sreeni](https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/dr-reorg-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-mev-2ee72b428d1d)
- [⭐️⭐️⭐️ quantifying blockchain extractable value: how dark is the forest?, by kaihua qin et al.](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.05511.pdf)
- [⭐️⭐️⭐️ the enemy of your enemy is not your friend, by kobayashi](https://fiona.mirror.xyz/QXdCOAggA5g_j5R_JpO-V5LqK89EbimnYIV6c2rOsT0)
- [⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ foundations of blockchains and mev, by tim roughgarden](https://timroughgarden.github.io/fob21/)

#### 2020

- [⭐️⭐⭐⭐⭐ escaping the dark forest, by samczsun](https://samczsun.com/escaping-the-dark-forest/)
- [⭐️⭐⭐ ethereum is a dark forest, by paradigm](https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest)
- [⭐️⭐️⭐️ tricking frontrunners into being transaction relayers, by sankar4033](https://ethresear.ch/t/surrogeth-tricking-frontrunners-into-being-transaction-relayers/6937/1)


#### 2019

- [⭐⭐⭐⭐ flash boys 2.0, by p. daian et al.](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.05234.pdf)
- [⭐⭐️⭐️ transparent dishonesty: front-running attacks on blockchain, by shayan eskandari et al.](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.05164.pdf)



#### 2017

- [⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ implementing ethereum trading front-runs on the bancor exchange, by ivan bogatyy](https://hackernoon.com/front-running-bancor-in-150-lines-of-python-with-ethereum-api-d5e2bfd0d798)


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### [bonus] 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕒 𝕔𝕪𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕦𝕟𝕜

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* [⭐️⭐️⭐️ teal organizations wiki](https://reinventingorganizationswiki.com/)
* [⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the hacker manifest, by the mentor](http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html)
* [⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ bitcoin whitepaper, by satoshi nakamoto](https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf)
* [⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the cypherpunk manifest, by eric hughes](https://activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html)
* [⭐️⭐️⭐️ the meaning of decentralization, by vitalik](https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76a274)
* [⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the crypto anarchist manifest, by timothy c. may](https://nakamotoinstitute.org/crypto-anarchist-manifesto/)
* [⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ a graduate course in applied cryptography, by dan boneh](http://toc.cryptobook.us/)

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