## projects and research

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### tl; dr

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* public discussion around MEV started by [pmcgooohan](https://twitter.com/pmcgoohancrypto?lang=en) on [e/ethereum](https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/2d84yv/miners_frontrunning/), and it was formalized by [phildaiann et. al](https://twitter.com/phildaian)'s paper [flash boys 2](https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05234). 
* [here are the main essays and papers from the last years](history.md)

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### mev-related projects

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* [flashbots](flashbots)
* [manifold](manifold)
* [shutter](shutter)
* [dflow](dflow)
* [eden](eden)
* [jito](jito)
* [skip](skip)
* [cow](cow_protocol)


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### resources

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* [projects addressing private order flows primitives](https://github.com/go-outside-labs/mev-toolkit/blob/main/MEV_searchers/private_order_flows/projects.md)
* [diamonds are forever, lvr is not, by mcmenamin et al.](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10601)
* [mev capturing amm, by josojo](https://ethresear.ch/t/mev-capturing-amm-mcamm/13336)
* [mev-protected cross-chain swaps, by cashmere](https://cashmerelabs.medium.com/cashmerelabs-testnet-1-0-2c11e23f36)