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Articles/Papers

• 2017-08-17, The Cost of Decentralization in 0x and EtherDelta

• 2019-04-09, SoK: Transparent Dishonesty: front-running attacks on Blockchain

• 2019-04-10, Flash Boys 2.0

• 2020-05-11, Combining GHOST and Casper

• 2020-08-28, Ethereum is a Dark Forest

• 2020-09-24, Escaping the Dark Forest

• 2021-01-22, Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?

• 2021-02-05, MEV and Me

• 2021-04-12, MEV and Cooridnation

• 2021-04-15, MEV... Wat Do?

• 2021-04-28, MEV... Do This

• 2021-05-10, MEV in ETH2

• 2021-07-19, MEV and EIP-1559

• 2021-07-20, Ethereum Reorgs After The Merge

• 2021-09-09, Clockwork Finance: Automated Analysis of Economic Security in Smart Contracts

Podcasts

• 2018-09-26, Blockchain 101: Transaction lifecycle & the mempool

• 2020-08-18, Investing in DeFi Paradigms | Charlie Noyes (MEV discussion starts around 1:00:00)

• 2020-09-20, Understanding MEV - with Georgios Konstantopoulos, Dan Robinson, and Hasu

• 2020-10-18, Monsters in the Mempool with Dan Robinson from Paradigm

• 2021-02-17, Flashbots with Phil Daian and Stephane Gosselin

• 2021-04-28, Flashbots – The Good, Bad and the Ugly of MEV

• 2021-05-15, #25 Paradigm’s Thesis – w/ Charlie Noyes, Georgios Konstantopoulos and Hasu [+transcript]

• 2021-05-21, Crypto’s Existential Threat | MEV Panel: Phil Daian, Georgios Konstanopolus, Charlie Noyes

• 2021-07-19, Interview with a Searcher - with MEV Senpai and Hasu

Eth Research Posts

• 2020-01-15, MEV Auction

• 2020-11-23, Flashbots: Frontrunning the MEV crisis

• 2021-04-19, Content Layer Solution

• 2021-04-31, MEV-SGX

• 2021-06-04, Proposer/Block-builder Separation

• 2021-08-23, Committee-driven MEV smoothing

Presentations/Panels

Trail of Bits

• 2020-06-10, Detecting transaction replacement attacks with Manticore

Devcon4

• 2018-12-10, Smart Contract Security - Incentives Beyond the Launch by Phil Daian

ETHGlobal 'MEV Scaling Ethereum Panel' - Vitalik Buterin, Justin Drake, Phil Daian & others

• 2021-05-10, Recording

ETHGlobal mev.wtf

• Outline

• 2021-07-01, Recording

Twitter

• MEV Twitter List

Additional Resources

• https://github.com/Dogetoshi/MEV

• Flashbots: MEV Auction, Data, Research

• Automata MEV Wiki