🕹⛓ mev toolkit

tl; dr

👾 maximal extractable value (MEV) encompasses the profits generated by participant parties in the block production supply chain. the most valuable commodity is information.

👾 MEV extraction can be a force of good in a non-predatory blockspace free-market as an incentive for economic security. order flow toxicity is a trader's exposure to counter-parties that possess private informational advantages (e.g., through priority gas auctions).

👾 the discussion around MEV started by pmcgooohan on e/ethereum, and it was formalized by phildaian's paper flash boys 2.0.

⚠️ this repository is an ongoing boundless catalog from my own research. therefore, no guarantees, use it at your own risk.

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🍕 notes && code in this repo

extraction strategies

• arbitrage
• frontrunning
• backrunning
• sandwich
• longtails
• jit liquidity
• liquidation
• flashloans
• sniping
• oracles
• statistical

mev on the chains

• mev on ethereum
• mev on avalanche
• mev on arbitrum
• mev on optimism
• mev on solana
• mev on cosmos
• mev on binance
• mev on polygon

building a toolkit

• build your mev bot
• private order flows
• latency optimization
• cross-domain mev
• pvp battles

mev-related and defi projects

• flashbots
• uniswap
• cow protocol
• rook dao
• 0x protocol
• defi trading
• tokenomics

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🍟 seacher tools

tx explorers

• ethtx transaction decoder
• public mev explorer, by metablock
• mev dashboard, by metablock
• bundle explorer, by flashbots
• zero mev, by pmcgoohan
• bloxy, by bitquey
• ethvm ethereum explorer
• txn finance, by band protocol
• tx.eth.samczsun.com
• ethereum token explorer, by diem
• explorer and txs, by anyblock
• mev explorer, by eigenphi
• block explorer, by blockscout
• block explorer, by blockchair
• block and tokens explorer, by oklink
• tx explorer, by blocksec
• address explorer, by breadcrumbs

data && analytics

• mev dashboard, by flashbots.
• cross-domain arbitrage tracker, by odos
• mev live-stream, by eigenphi
• flashloans, by blocksec
• sandwiched?
• etherscan data on flashbots
• mev data corpus, by manifold
• ethereum datafarm, by nerolation
• parsec.finance
• nansen
• token terminal

dune boards

• mev-boost blocks w/ last tx w/ transfer from fee receiver to validator address
• just-in-time liquidity sandwich large trades in uniswap v3
• all uniswap v3 mev activity and all uniswap v2 mev activity
• flashbots data for extracted good mev
• solana mev data
• ethereum tx reverts
• dune board for gas prices
• sleuthing hashed function and event signatures
• mev flashbots unleashed

other resources

• abi for unverified contracts
• calldata decoder
• eth converter
• smart contract allowance checker
• tornado cash pool anonymity
• eth detective
• contracts diff checker
• ultrasound money dashboard
• revoke.cash
• ankr rpc endpoints
• back run me
• ethereum signature database
• source of deployed ethereum contracts in vscode
• token security detector
• whatsabi: guess an abi for ethereum contracts
• dapp.tools

gas trackers

• eth gas alert
• gas price io
• ethereum gas tracker
• nansei gas tracker
• gas fee prediction
• gastrology

news and alerts

• eigenphi mirror
• mevboost bot
• mevrefund bot
• highgwei bot
• mev proposer bot
• eigenphi bot
• mevwatch bot

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🍿 general readings

• the 0 to 1 guide to mev, by blockchain at berkeley
• ethereum is a dark forest, by paradigm
• escaping the dark forest, by samczsun
• how to build an ethereum mining pool, by dragonfly
• mev and me, by paradigm
• return to the dark forest, by rekt
• modern mev sandwich attacks, by totlsota
• how i learned to stop worrying and love mev, by sreeni
• how to light up the dark forest, by robert miller
• hiding in plain sight, by samczsun
• we live in a mempool, by tom schmidt
• wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit, by n. worsley
• tricking frontrunners into being transaction relayers, by sankar4033
• The enemy of your enemy is not your friend, by kobayashi
• anatomy of an mev strategy: synthetix, by robert miller
• mev wat to do, by phill daian
• mev: the first 5 years and mev: the next 5 years, by james prestwich
• mev-boost, relays, self-sovereignty, by dr. m. von steinkirch
• implementing ethereum trading front-runs on the bancor exchange, by ivan bogatyy
• endgame, by vitalik

ideas and wikis

• mev research, by eigenphi
• mev wiki, by automata network
• mev extraction strategies, by r. miller
• mev auction, by the ethereum foundation
• the daily ape on mev
• mev.day amsterdam 2022
• cryptocurrency historical data snapshot
• mempool privacy research list, by a. obadia
• cyph3rs.xyz

research papers

• flash boys 2.0: frontrunning, transaction reordering, and consensus instability, by philip daian et al.
• towards a theory of mev I, by diamandis et al.
• transparent dishonesty: front-running attacks on blockchain, by shayan eskandari et al.
• combining ghost and casper, by vitalik et al.
• three attacks on pos ethereum, by caspar schwarz-schilling et al.
• two attacks on pos ghost/ethereum, by joachim neu et al.
• quantifying blockchain extractable value: how dark is the forest?, by kaihua qin et al.
• dex arbitrage, mathematical optimizations & me, by noxx
• censorship resistance in on-chain auctions, by m. pai et al.
• mev on ethereum: a policy analysis, by m. barczentewicz

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