Papers, protocol writings, and forum research from the Flashbots research team.
A searchable version of this list is at https://flashbots.github.io/mev-research/. The underlying data is in docs/publications.json and docs/publications.csv — both are free to consume.
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31 entries.
| Date | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2026 | The Price of Decentralization in Block Building | Burak Öz (Flashbots), Fei Wu (Flashbots), Luis Correia (Flashbots), Sen Yang (Flashbots), Bruno Mazorra (Flashbots), Stefanos Leonardos |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Just-in-Time Resale in an Ahead-of-Time Auction: An Event Study | Burak Öz (Flashbots), Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots), Akaki Mamageishvili |
| Feb 25, 2026 | Timing Games: Probabilistic Backrunning and Spam | Bruno Mazorra (Flashbots), Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots), Akaki Mamageishvili |
| Jan 19, 2026 | Geographical Centralization Resilience in Ethereum’s Block-Building Paradigms | Sen Yang, Burak Öz (Flashbots), Fei Wu, Fan Zhang |
| Jan 2, 2026 | The CoinAlg Bind: Profitability-Fairness Tradeoffs in Collective Investment Algorithms | Andrés Fábrega, James Austgen, Samuel Breckenridge, Jay Yu, Amy Zhao, Sarah Allen (Flashbots), Aditya Saraf, Ari Juels |
| Dec 5, 2025 | Time/Space Tradeoffs for Generic Attacks on Delay Functions | Kasper Green Larsen, Mark Simkin (Flashbots) |
| Nov 23, 2025 | TimeBoost: Do Ahead-of-Time Auctions Work? | Akaki Mamageishvili, Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots), Ko Sunghun, Jinsuk Park, Ali Taslimi |
| Oct 24, 2025 | Conditional Recall | Christoph Schlegel, Xinyuan Sun |
| Oct 22, 2025 | Cross-Chain Sealed-Bid Auctions Using Confidential Compute Blockchains | Jonas Gebele, Timm Mutzel, Burak Öz (Flashbots), Florian Matthes |
| Oct 14, 2025 | Attestation of Host Networking Stack for TEEs | Filip Rezabek, Moe Mahhouk |
| Sep 29, 2025 | The Free Option Problem of ePBS | Bruno Mazorra, Burak Öz, Christoph Schlegel, Quintus Kilbourn |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Geographic Decentralization Simulation | Burak Öz, Sen Yang |
| Aug 19, 2025 | Differentially Private Aggregate Hints in MEV-Share | Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Sarisht Wadhwa |
| Jul 29, 2025 | Silent Threshold Encryption with One-Shot Adaptive Security | Mathias Hall-Andersen, Mark Simkin (Flashbots), Benedikt Wagner |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Arbitrage with Bounded Liquidity | Christoph Schlegel, Quintus Kilbourn |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Maximal Extractable Value in Batch Auctions | Mengqian Zhang, Yuhao Li, Xinyuan Sun (Flashbots), Elynn Chen, Xi Chen |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Narrowing the Gap between TEEs Threat Model and Deployment Strategies | Filip Rezabek, Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach |
| Apr 18, 2025 | Robust Distributed Arrays: Provably Secure Networking for Data Availability Sampling | Dankrad Feist, Gottfried Herold, Mark Simkin (Flashbots), Benedikt Wagner |
| Apr 14, 2025 | Encrypted Backruns | Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach |
| Feb 11, 2025 | NDAI Agreements | Matthew Stephenson, Andrew Miller (Flashbots), Xyn Sun (Flashbots), Bhargav Annem, Rohan Parikh |
| Jan 28, 2025 | Cross-Chain Arbitrage | Burak Öz, Bruno Mazorra, Christoph Schlegel |
| Dec 3, 2024 | Liquefaction: Privately Liquefying Blockchain Assets | James Austgen, Andrés Fábrega, Mahimna Kelkar, Dani Vilardell, Sarah Allen (Flashbots), Kushal Babel, Jay Yu, Ari Juels |
| Jul 19, 2024 | On Sybil-proof Mechanisms | Minghao Pan (Flashbots), Bruno Mazorra (Flashbots), Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots), Akaki Mamageishvili |
| Jul 18, 2024 | Who Wins Ethereum Block Building Auctions and Why? | Burak Öz (Flashbots), Danning Sui (Flashbots), Thomas Thiery, Florian Matthes |
| Jul 10, 2024 | Searcher Competition in Block Building | Akaki Mamageishvili, Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots), Benny Sudakov, Danning Sui (Flashbots) |
| Feb 15, 2024 | OCash: Fully Anonymous Payments between Blockchain Light Clients | Adam Blatchley Hansen, Jesper Buus Nielsen, Mark Simkin (Flashbots) |
| Jan 15, 2024 | Playing the MEV Game on a First-Come-First-Served Blockchain | Burak Öz (Flashbots), Jonas Gebele, Parshant Singh, Filip Rezabek (Flashbots), Florian Matthes |
| Nov 14, 2023 | Cooperative AI via Decentralized Commitment Devices | Xinyuan Sun (Flashbots), Davide Crapis, Matt Stephenson, Barnabé Monnot, Thomas Thiery, Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach (Flashbots) |
| Nov 6, 2023 | DAO Decentralization: Voting-Bloc Entropy, Bribery, and Dark DAOs | James Austgen, Andrés Fábrega, Sarah Allen (Flashbots), Kushal Babel, Mahimna Kelkar, Ari Juels |
| Aug 12, 2023 | A Study of MEV Extraction Techniques on a First-Come-First-Served Blockchain | Burak Öz (Flashbots), Jonas Gebele, Parshant Singh, Filip Rezabek, Florian Matthes |
| Jul 11, 2023 | Time Moves Faster When There is Nothing You Anticipate: The Role of Time in MEV Rewards | Burak Öz (Flashbots), Benjamin Kraner, Nicolò Vallarano, Bingle Stegmann Kruger, Florian Matthes, Claudio Juan Tessone |
5 entries.
| Date | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 2026 | Why Location Choice Matters | Burak Öz, Fei Wu, Luis Correia, Sen Yang, Bruno Mazorra |
| Feb 17, 2026 | Network Anonymized Mempools | not listed |
| Jun 2, 2025 | Scalable Oblivious Accesses to Blockchain Data | Afonso Tinoco (Flashbots), Tianyao Gu, Elaine Shi, Andrew Miller (Flashbots) |
| Nov 8, 2024 | ZTEE - Trustless Supply Chains | Quintus Kilbourn (Flashbots), Sylvain Bellemare, Bunnie, Michael Gao |
| Oct 11, 2024 | Zero Trust Execution Environments | Quintus Kilbourn (Flashbots), Sylvain Bellemare, Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Andrew Miller (Flashbots) |
17 entries.
3 entries.
| Date | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 2025 | Trustless Payments | Bruno Mazorra, Christoph Schlegel, Quintus Kilbourn, Burak Öz, Luis Correia |
| Nov 19, 2025 | Dynamic Penalties for ePBS | Christoph Schlegel, Bruno Mazorra |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Understanding Minimum Blob Base Fees | Data Always |
1 entries.
| Date | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2025 | Counter Mapping | Leo Arias |
57 publications. Generated by tools/build_publications.py; edit that file, not this one.