🧱⛓ Blockchains, AMMs, and MEV

☠️ My notes and source code in this repo:

• My random notes on the blokchains and MEV
• PoC geth in Docker and Kubernetes
• The KeeperDAO project
• The Uniswap project
• MEV on Avalanche

☠️ Articles I recommend:

• MEV wiki
• Etherscan data on flashbots
• MEV Dashboard by Flashbots.
• KeeperDAO plan for MEV protection
• A list of open problems in DeFi by Emperor
• Sandwiched?
• How to use Flashbots
• Flashbots bundle explore
• Flash Boys 2.0, the original article
• Ethereum is a Dark Forest by Paradigm
• Escaping the Dark Forest by samczsun
• How to Build an Ethereum Mining Pool by Dragonfly research
• MEV and Me by Paradigm
  • "if block rewards are small enough compared to MEV, it can be rational for miners to destabilize consensus."
  • "The rate at which MEV accumulates on a given blockchain is generally proportional to the complexity of its application-layer behavior."
• Return to the Dark Forest by rekt
• Modern MEV sandwich attacks on Ethereum routers by totlsota
• Dr. Reorg or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love MEV by Saneel Sreeni
• Hiding in Plain Sight by samczsun
• We Live In A Mempool: Backrunning the MEV Crisis by Tom Schmidt
• How To Light Up The Dark Forest by Robert Miller
• KeeperDAO's whitepaper
• Blockchains are Cities by Haseeb Qureshi
  • "Ethereum is NYC, Solana is LA"
• Endgame by Vitalik
  • "a chain where block production is still centralized, but block validation is trustless and highly decentralized"
• Soulbound by Vitalik
  • "Making more items in the crypto space soulbound can be one path toward where NFTs can represent much more of who you are and not just what you can afford."

📙 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕒 𝕔𝕪𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕦𝕟𝕜

• A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
• The Cypherpunk Manifest by Eric Hughes
• The Hacker Manifest by The Mentor
• How to be a Pirate by CGP Grey
• Bitcoin Whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto
  • "an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust..."
• Teal organizations