Thread by @tzhen

Flashbots arose from ⚓ MEV Pi-rate Ship ⚓ research collective, took shape over time thru periodic (often heated) community calls "MEV Ship Treasure Map Roast". 🏴‍☠️

Join us tomorrow at our semi-monthly tradition w/ 🔥Roast Master @danrobinson 🔥 in navigating the Dark Waters.

Flashbots "MEV Roast" is the easiest way to slip right into interesting convo & heated debates on all things MEV.

🗓️Join us Wednesday 13:30 EST (tomorrow) for a 90-min fully-packed agenda w/ Roast Master @delitzer who also brings a surprise presentation w/ @onewayfunction 🏴‍☠️

Join us for the first #MEVRoast of 2021 today (Jan 14) at 11:30am EST/4:30pm UTC, w/ Roast Master @tomhschmidt (in absentia, maybe), Captain Phil @phildaian and the MEV Ship research collective.

🗓️Agenda (w/ slides & calendar link): github.com/flashbots/pm/i…

Join us for #MEVRoast today (Jan 28) at 11:30am EST/4:30pm UTC, w/ Roast Master @sunnya97 to discuss the role of privacy in
1) MEV minimization,
2) fairer MEV auction.

What are the trade-offs between privacy solutions at the mempool layer?

Agenda:
github.com/flashbots/pm/i…

At the start, already a 🔥 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Roast

🔥MEV Roast 11 video recap is up: github.com/flashbots/pm#j…

The best part of MEV (Treasure Map) Roast is the sprinkle of 🚿 shower thoughts.

Open challenges for a new Flashbots treasure map inviting privacy researchers to Roast async:

🏴‍☠️ Thoughts on PoTX? via SGX/Committee/MPC?

@phildaian @sunnya97 @EliBenSasson @YaelDoweck @StarkWareLtd @SecretNetwork @kisaguncan @valardragon @amanusk_ -How large is MEV?
-Why does MEV matter as a security metric to protocols & users?
-What is the animal mascot for MEV?

Join us for #MEVRoast tomorrow (Feb 25) 11:30EST/16:30UTC, w/ Roast Master @hudsonjameson & #Flashbots on: MEV from A to Z.

Agenda:
github.com/flashbots/pm/i…

MEV 4D Chess in the Blockspace Bazaar
- Market dynamics of blockspace market
- MEV on ETH 1, L2s & ETH 2
- A true seal-bid MEV auction

Join us for Flashbots #MEVRoast this Thursday (Mar 25) 8am PT/11am ET/3pm UTC
w/ Roast Master @VitalikButerin

Agenda: github.com/flashbots/pm/i…

➿Video recap & slides of last week's #MEVRoast (the Blockspace Bazaar: Past, Present & Future) is now posted on #flashbots github:
github.com/flashbots/pm#m…

🔥co-hosted by Roast Master @VitalikButerin

🎅Easter Egg: yes, our chaordic MEV Roast got hilariously zoom bombed for 10s

1/ Roast Questions by @VitalikButerin on blockspace auction, MEV, account abstraction

Notes:
- Quantifying Realized Extractable Value
- Sequencer MEV Extraction
- MEV & Arbitrum
- ETH2, MEV & Flashbots

Slides: tinyurl.com/nkndy5ss
Video: tinyurl.com/57kjwn2n

2/ Ethereum block space: who gets what & why (Supply Side) by @Leorzhang
- Why does this market design lead to MEV?
- Impact of MEV to the mining industry?

Blog: aniccaresearch.tech/blog/ethereum-…
Slides: tinyurl.com/4bx73wpa
Video: tinyurl.com/57kjwn2n
(Timestamp: 00:12:50)

3/ Ethereum block space: who gets what & why (Demand Side) by @gakonst
- Congestion, fees & MEV: short, medium & long-term solutions
- MEV, POS, Rollups

Blog: aniccaresearch.tech/blog/ethereum-…
Slides: tinyurl.com/4bx73wpa
Video: tinyurl.com/57kjwn2n
(Timestamp: 00:28:15)

4/ MEV Auction Design
by @suryabakshi (h/t @valardragon @no89thkey )
- Why MEV auction?
- Desirable properties of an optimal mempool auction?
- Solution: a sealed-bid auction?

Slides: tinyurl.com/5jcfx24
Video: tinyurl.com/57kjwn2n
(Timestamp: 01:02:25)

5/ A seal-bid MEV auction design: MEV-sgx
by @bertcmiller (h/t @phildaian @thegostep @akash_khosla @samczsun @jparyani )
- Proposal: a permissionless sealed-bid MEV auction w/ complete privacy

Slides: tinyurl.com/uxx9hmy
Video: tinyurl.com/57kjwn2n
(Timestamp: 01:26:07)

6/ A lively discussion b/t @phildaian @VitalikButerin @AFDudley0 @adietrichs @nanexcool exploring various approaches for account abstraction on Ethereum: #flashbots & EIP-2938/EIP-3074.
- GitHub Issue: github.com/flashbots/pm/i…

Video: tinyurl.com/57kjwn2n
(Timestamp: 01:57:48)