1/ after almost 3 years building flashbots, i've decided it's time for me to leave. thanks to my co-founders and the entire flashbots crew for 3 memorable years.
for anyone interested, here's the message i sent to the team earlier today.
alex
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alex
@ObadiaAlex
Joined March 2016
- 1/ Introducing explore.flashbots.net, a public dashboard and live MEV transactions explorer. We classified >1.3M MEV txs, found at least $314M worth of Extracted MEV since Jan 2020, and $4.5M wasted gas fees, equivalent to 4.5k Ethereum blocks wasted. medium.com/flashbots/quan…
- First wip paper out of Flashbots Research on MEV in a multi-chain, cross-domain future: arxiv.org/abs/2112.01472 How do we define it, what does it mean, and what will it do to the system we love? joint work w/ @fiiiu_ @lakshmansankar @tarunchitra @vaibhavchellani @phildaian
- new paper by @itranneo & @0xQuintus just released — arxiv.org/abs/2307.10878 “Threshold Encrypted Mempools: Limitations and Considerations” 🔥
- hi! interrupting your markets news to share that i'm joining @ARIA_research as a programme director to invest in high-risk high-reward r&d that can benefit all of humanity.Introducing our second cohort of Programme Directors – a group of world-class scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs, with proven track records for building ventures, communities and technologies of societal and economic significance. 🚀 (1/3)
00:00 - 👋 as part of an effort/experiment to do more 'research in the open', ive created a notion page with current & past research efforts i am working on, as well other hopefully useful information. lmk if you find it useful & have any comments!
- some research threads on the flashbots forum 🤠 collective.flashbots.net/t/quantifying-… @0xjepsen @karl_dot_tech @tkstanczak @l2beat @bkiepuszewski
- (1/2) last week at BIU, Dan Boneh gave a presentation on MEV and laid out a prediction: the same way zero knowledge cryptography was catalyzed by blockchains over the last years, mpc & enclaves research will be catalyzed by the mev problem in the next years. i agree :)
- 1y ago today 🥳🎂 'The first Flashbots bundle was mined in block 11550019 on Dec-29–2020 04:33:22 PM UTC, kicking off what is poised to be the year of MEV.'
- writings.flashbots.net/research/fcfs-… Can First Come First Served-Based Transaction Ordering Prevent Front-Running? -- first article out of Flashbots Research from Robert Annessi 🔥🔥🔥
- any zk circuit auditing firms out there?
- who wants to hang in Amsterdam during DevConnect? happy to jam with people on all things MEV ♾
