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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 Public

    Everything there is to know about Flashbots

    2.6k 290

  2. mev-research Public

    Project management for MEV Research

    918 187

  3. mev-boost Public

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

    Go 1.2k 230

  4. rbuilder Public

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

    Rust 361 106

  5. mev-geth Public

    Forked from ethereum/go-ethereum

    Go implementation of MEV-Auction for Ethereum

    Go 799 201

  6. simple-arbitrage Public

    Example arbitrage bot using Flashbots

    TypeScript 2k 750

Repositories

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  • contender Public

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

    Rust 60 MIT 19 21 (4 issues need help) 2 Updated Feb 25, 2025
  • mev-boost-relay Public

    MEV-Boost Relay for Ethereum proposer/builder separation (PBS)

    Go 440 AGPL-3.0 121 20 (1 issue needs help) 20 Updated Feb 25, 2025
  • meta-evm Public
    Shell 0 0 0 4 Updated Feb 25, 2025
  • enode-snop Public
    Rust 0 0 0 0 Updated Feb 25, 2025
  • mempool-dumpster Public

    Dump all the mempool transactions 🗑️ ♻️ (in Parquet + CSV)

    Go 222 MIT 31 4 1 Updated Feb 25, 2025
  • Go 12 AGPL-3.0 1 1 1 Updated Feb 25, 2025
  • rbuilder Public

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

    Rust 361 Apache-2.0 106 53 (7 issues need help) 25 Updated Feb 25, 2025
  • rollup-boost Public

    Sidecar to Enable Rollup Extensions

    Rust 74 MIT 19 8 (2 issues need help) 4 Updated Feb 25, 2025
  • builder-hub Public

    BuilderHub service for provisioning and permissioning BuilderNet instances

    Go 11 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Feb 24, 2025
  • mev-boost Public

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

    Go 1,228 MIT 230 53 (1 issue needs help) 5 Updated Feb 24, 2025