🦈⛓ mev

the concept of maximal extractable value (mev) - a revenue stream generated from priority gas auction (PGA) - was coined by the 2019 research paper flash boys 2.0, and encompasses the profits generated by participant parties when producing new blocks on a blockchain.

the resources in this repository are from my own research, which is intermittent and boundless. therefore, no guarantees, no promises; use it at your own risk.

🍕 notes && code in this repo

extraction strategies

• arbitrage
• sandwich
• liquidations
• nft arbitrage
• front-running
• back-running
• just-in-time
• flashloans
• sniping

building a toolkit

• pvp battles
• build your mev bot
• latency optimization

mev on the chains

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

projects

• flashbots
• cow protocol
• rook dao

related defi stuff

• uniswap
• oracles and twap
• twamm designs
• 0x protocol and rfq
• defi and day trading
• tokenomics

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🍟 resources && tools

mev explorers

• zero mev
• public mev explorer
• dashboard by metablock
• flashbots bundle explorer

tx analysis

ethereum mainnet

• ethvm
• ethtx transaction decoder
• txn finance
• ethereum token explorer
• anyblock explorer and txs
• blockscout block explorer
• blockchair blocks explorer
• oklink block and tokens explorer
• phalcon tx explorer
• breadcrumbs

goerli testnet

• etherscan goerli

gas trackers

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

data && analytics

• mev dashboard by flashbots.
• nansen
• token terminal
• westerngate, arbitrage measured
• eigenphi arbitrage scan
• parsec.finance
• flashloans
• sandwiched?
• etherscan data on flashbots
• mev data corpus by manifold

awesome dune boards

• ethereum tx reverts
• dune board for gas prices
• sleuthing hashed function and event signatures
• mev flashbots unleashed

other supporting tools

• eth converter
• smart contract allowance checker
• tornado cash pool anonymity
• eth detective
• contracts diff checker
• ultrasound money dahsboard
• revoke.cash
• ankr rpc endpoints
• back run me

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🍿 general articles

• endgame by vitalik
• 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
• tricking frontrunners into being transaction relayers
• The enemy of your enemy is not your friend
• anatomy of an mev strategy: synthetix by robert miller
• mev wat to do by phill daian

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🍌 mev research

• mev.day 2022
• the daily ape on mev
• cryptocurrency historical data snapshot
• mev wiki
• barnabe.eth on pbs
• mev extraction strategies
• mev auction

research papers

• flash boys 2.0
• towards a theory of mev by diamandis et al
• transparent dishonesty: front-running attacks on blockchain
• dex arbitrage, mathematical optimizations & me
• a list of open problems in defi by emperor
• combining ghost and casper
• three attacks on pos ethereum
• two attacks on pos ghost/ethereum

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🌭 bonus: 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕒 𝕔𝕪𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕦𝕟𝕜

• a graduate course in applied cryptography
• the cypherpunk manifest by eric hughes
• the hacker manifest by the mentor
• bitcoin whitepaper by satoshi nakamoto
• teal organizations
• decentralization by vitalik