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Flashbots

Flashbots

Flashbots is a research and development organization working on mitigating the negative externalities of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) and avoiding the existential risks MEV could cause to stateful blockchains like Ethereum. Our primary focus is to enable a permissionless, transparent, and sustainable ecosystem for MEV, via a three-pronged approach:

  • Illuminate: Bringing transparency to MEV activity.
  • Democratize: Democratizing access to MEV revenue.
  • Distribute: Enabling sustainable distribution of MEV revenue.

Our efforts are separated into three sub-organizations:

  • Product: builds core infrastructure and ecosystem tooling that redefines the block production supply chain. This includes MEV-Boost, SUAVE as well as Flashbots Protect RPC, mev-geth, MEV-Inspect and MEV-Explore.
  • Research: an open, transparent, and collaborative research effort that explores MEV market dynamics and blockchain design challenges at the intersection of economics, security, and cryptography. To fuel the collaborative nature of our research, anybody can submit a Flashbots Research Proposal (FRPs) and might become eligible for a grant.
  • Coordination: an organizational effort to streamline operational processes, interface with external teams in the ecosystem and scale ourselves to maximize our impact.

Flashbots Research and Product are tightly-coupled dual engines that propel our organization forward in a phased approach:

  • Long-term oriented research efforts spec out and update our roadmap, define our organization’s phases and identify key milestones.
  • Milestone-oriented engineering efforts ship core infrastructure and ecosystem tools while collecting data and other artifacts that feed back into research.

Our work is open source and you can follow our progress in each respective repository of the Flashbots organization. Anyone is welcome to comment on an issue or pick it up entirely.

Community

The best way to interact with the Flashbots community is through our forum, which is our central communication platform for conversations, announcements and information sharing. We also publish monthly transparency reports that aggregates information and provides summaries on everything Flashbots and MEV.

Join us!

We are not your typical project, we are fully remote and our principles are based on that of a pirate hacker collective. If you are a self-directed individual who puts collective success above your own and is motivated by solving challenging problems with asymmetric impact, you will fit right in.

Useful links

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  1. pm pm Public

    Everything there is to know about Flashbots

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  2. mev-research mev-research Public

    Project management for MEV Research

    921 187

  3. mev-boost mev-boost Public

    MEV-Boost allows Ethereum validators to source high-MEV blocks from a competitive builder marketplace

    Go 1.2k 231

  4. rbuilder rbuilder Public

    rbuilder is a blazingly fast, state of the art Ethereum MEV-Boost block builder written in Rust

    Rust 374 111

  5. mev-geth mev-geth Public

    Forked from ethereum/go-ethereum

    Go implementation of MEV-Auction for Ethereum

    Go 800 200

  6. simple-arbitrage simple-arbitrage Public

    Example arbitrage bot using Flashbots

    TypeScript 2k 752

Repositories

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  • contender Public

    run highly configurable benchmarks for EVM-based execution nodes over JSON-RPC

    flashbots/contender’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 67 MIT 19 22 (4 issues need help) 4 Updated Mar 14, 2025
  • bproxy Public

    L2 builder proxy

    flashbots/bproxy’s past year of commit activity
    Go 0 MIT 0 1 0 Updated Mar 14, 2025
  • rbuilder-operator Public

    Specific implementation (based on the public rbuilder) of a block builder to be used on a TDX context.

    flashbots/rbuilder-operator’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 16 Apache-2.0 4 0 5 Updated Mar 14, 2025
  • rbuilder Public

    rbuilder is a blazingly fast, state of the art Ethereum MEV-Boost block builder written in Rust

    flashbots/rbuilder’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 374 Apache-2.0 111 61 (7 issues need help) 19 Updated Mar 14, 2025
  • node-healthchecker Public

    Composite health (sync status) checker for blockchain nodes

    flashbots/node-healthchecker’s past year of commit activity
    Go 3 MIT 2 0 0 Updated Mar 15, 2025
  • tdx-orderflow-proxy Public

    An orderflow proxy for running inside a TDX builder instance.

    flashbots/tdx-orderflow-proxy’s past year of commit activity
    Go 11 MIT 1 3 0 Updated Mar 14, 2025
  • go-utils Public

    Reusable Go utilities and modules

    flashbots/go-utils’s past year of commit activity
    Go 15 MIT 7 0 1 Updated Mar 14, 2025
  • rollup-boost Public

    Sidecar to Enable Rollup Extensions

    flashbots/rollup-boost’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 99 MIT 24 10 (2 issues need help) 7 Updated Mar 14, 2025
  • flashbots/flashbots-docs’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 210 MIT 156 4 9 Updated Mar 13, 2025
  • builder-hub Public

    BuilderHub service for provisioning and permissioning BuilderNet instances

    flashbots/builder-hub’s past year of commit activity
    Go 11 MIT 0 0 1 Updated Mar 13, 2025