MEV.wtf Summit 2021
2021-07-01
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who it's for
mev researchers, protocol engineers, validator operators, sequencer operators, rollup developers, searchers
topics
proposer-builder separation; threshold encryption for ordering; fair sequencing services; encrypted mempool designs; EIP-1559 economic effects; cross-L2 and cross-chain MEV; private transaction relays and bundles; SGX and secure enclave tooling; concentrated liquidity sandwich attacks; block space auctions for sharding; transaction-level hinting; mev redistribution mechanisms
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| 'Block Space Auctions in Ethereum Sharding' | Vitalik Buterin | 10m |
Proposal adds a market where specialized block builders publish large shard block body headers (commitment + signature + fee) to a proposal header subnet… | ||
| The State and Future of MEV | Hasu, Vitalik Buterin, Phil Daian | 45m |
Panel argues MEV is structural not transient: multi-block MEV and short re-org incentives are practical risks, PoS reduces some reorgs but proposer… | ||
| 'WTF is MEV' | Charlie Noyes | 09m |
MEV is defined as the profit a miner, validator or sequencer captures by including, excluding or reordering transactions, and it is already material: more than… | ||
| The Limits of Cryptoeconomics | Phil Daian | 16m |
Argues that cryptoeconomic incentives alone can't prevent MEV centralization and describes a combined approach using secure enclaves (SGX) plus economic… | ||
| MEV after EIP-1559 | Alejo Salles, Kristof Gazso | 15m |
Simple profit model and simulations claim roughly 98% stay on Ethereum post‑EIP‑1559, because miners don’t economically switch chains given current chain… | ||
| MEV & Interoperability: Rollups, Cross-L2 & Cross-chain | James Prestwich, John Adler, Eli Ben-Sasson, Ed Felten, Ben Jones, Zaki Manian | 34m |
Panel lays out concrete cross‑domain mechanics and tradeoffs: Cosmos IBC runs in production with tens of thousands of IBC packets/day and supports failure… | ||
| Classifying MEV | Sunny Aggarwal | 22m |
Breaks MEV into concrete proposer powers: timestamp/oracle manipulation, consensus vote censorship, and transaction-based abuses (censorship, ordering). Shows… | ||
| Mapping the MEV Solution Space | Hasu | 17m |
Maps the concrete MEV failure modes: frontrunning and sandwiching concentrated via centralized builders, and value extraction from users and block proposers… | ||
| Is MEV a Problem to be Solved or Reality to be Lived with? | Lakshman Sankar | 10m |
Argues that MEV is both solvable in places and inevitable elsewhere, recommending democratize MEV extraction for markets while embedding protocol-level… | ||
| The Fair Ordering Design Space | Mahimna Kelkar | 14m |
Defines fair ordering as preventing adversarial manipulation of transaction inclusion and ordering and proposes concrete definitions called receive order… | ||
| Fair Sequencing Services | Ari Juels | 14m |
Chainlink plans a Fair Sequencing Service that moves ordering off a single miner into a decentralized committee of oracle network committees that accept… | ||
| Wendy: Adding Order Policies to the Consensus Level | Klaus Kursawe | 16m |
Wendy implements consensus-layer ordering policies as a modular add-on on top of a BFT chain (Tendermint) to minimize MEV by enforcing block-order fairness… | ||
| Targeting Zero MEV in the Base Layer | pmcgoohan | 16m |
Proposes a base-layer content layer that decentralizes block content (many nodes decide one block) and chunks the mempool every one to three seconds so… | ||
| Transaction Level Hinting Considered Helpful | Rick Dudley | 17m |
Proposes a concrete new transaction type that embeds transaction envelopes with two predicates: restrict execution to specified Merkle leaves and run only if… | ||
| Survey of Privacy Solutions for Minimizing MEV | Mikerah | 13m |
Survey of cryptographic mitigations and where they actually trade privacy for latency or trust: commitments work as a drop‑in but impose a one‑block delay that… | ||
| Privacy All the Way Down: Tackling MEV at Different Layers via. Cryptography | Jannik Luhn | 34m |
Multiple teams claim concrete defenses: a Tendermint-integrated threshold decryption pipeline decrypts and executes transactions within the same block to avoid… | ||
| Searching for EVM Parallelism | Ben Jones | 11m |
Argues that EVM parallelism stalls on unpredictable state access: transactions are parallelizable only when they touch disjoint state, and the proposed simple… | ||
| Fantastic Extractable Value and Where to Not Find It | Tom Schmidt | 25m |
Argues that MEV already creates millions of dollars a day and surveys concrete countermeasures: sending transactions direct-to-miner (Flashbots, TaiChi)… | ||
| CowSwap & Gnosis Protocol V2 | Felix Leupold | 11m |
CowSwap is a trading UI built on Gnosis Protocol V2 that replaces raw txs with signed intents to trade and routes them to financially bonded solvers that batch… | ||
| 0x Request-For-Quote MEV Proof + Xero Slippage Trades | Amir Bandeali | 11m |
0x RFQ uses off‑chain quotes with on‑chain settlement so signed orders execute at a preset price, making trades zero slippage and impossible to front‑run… | ||
| A2MM: Mitigating Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering and Consensus Instability | Liyi Zhou | 09m |
Proposes A2MM as an application-layer fix that forces traders to atomically capture arbitrage inside one transaction, reducing extractable MEV; models miner… | ||
| Shutter - Preventing Frontrunning Using Threshold Encryption | Jannik Luhn | 08m |
Shutter encrypts transaction payloads with threshold encryption so miners and bots see only ciphertext until a configured reveal, then a distributed key-keeper… | ||
| MEV Redistribution | Anton Bukov, Tom Schmidt | 43m |
Panel argues MEV currently concentrates in miners and searchers but private tools change that: Flashbots bundles and services like backrun.me let bots submit… | ||
| MEV: Next Frontier of the DeFi Stack | Dan Elitzer, Scott Bigelow | 35m |
Panel reports that large trades (five-digit USD) routinely get sandwich attacked and one trader finds every trade this year hit with MEV; a vault keeper got… | ||
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