non-exhaustive list of public writings, presentations and contributions to others' writings. *fyi you can find recent blog posts in the blog section of this website!* ### writings - [Wanted: New Instruments to Fund BBNs](https://www.freaktakes.com/p/wanted-new-instruments-to-fund-bbns), guest post on Eric Gilliam's *Freaktakes*, 2025 - [quantum punks manifesto](https://quantumpunks.org), in collaboration with Nicola Greco, 2024 - [mev-boost with unconditional payments](https://github.com/flashbots/mev-boost/issues/109), 2022 - [how does pos ethereum prevent bribery for late block proposal?](https://github.com/flashbots/mev-boost/issues/111), 2022 - [Unity is Strength: A Formalization of Cross-Domain Maximal Extractable Value](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01472), in collaboration with A. Salles, T. Chitra, V. Chellani, L. Sankar, P. Daian, 2021 - [MEV in eth2 — an early exploration](https://writings.flashbots.net/mev-eth2), in collaboration with T. Vemulapalli, 2021 - [Quantifying MEV: Introducing MEV-Explore v0](https://medium.com/flashbots/quantifying-mev-introducing-mev-explore-v0-5ccbee0f6d02), 2021 - [Flashbots: Frontrunning the MEV Crisis](https://medium.com/flashbots/frontrunning-the-mev-crisis-40629a613752), 2020 - [Exploring DeFi Trading Strategies: Arbitrage in DeFi](https://medium.com/cambrial-capital/exploring-defi-trading-strategies-arbitrage-in-defi-7736dc5dd77a), 2019 ### presentations - [Why You Should Care About Maximal Extractable Value (MEV)](https://youtu.be/LKn37F-k8_M), 2022 - [The Multichain World is Centralized :( — Studying Cross-Domain MEV](https://youtu.be/dv5-Lzntv5M), 2022 - [A brief Survey of MEV on Ethereum, BSC, Avalanche and Polygon in 2021](https://youtu.be/OYE9uAf_v18), 2022 - [Mev.Day Market makers and MEV searchers panel](https://youtu.be/g0XMUBrTrJk), 2022 - [MEV on Modular Blockchains panel](https://youtu.be/DMUf4wZRp5I), 2022 - [MEV in eth2: introduction & open questions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhZ2FDMdVUM&ab_channel=AmphiMonge), 2021 - [MEV after The Merge with Nethermind and Flashbots](https://youtu.be/Hjd9WowOa3g), 2021 - [MEV on eth2](https://youtu.be/zsgC6mNP9eU), 2021 - [Flashbots Research Workshop #7: Cross-domain MEV AMA](https://youtu.be/uR0Z0nWXeFU), 2021 ### contributions - [Quantum Pseudo-Telepathy for High Frequency Traders](https://thequantummilkman.substack.com/p/quantum-pseudo-telepathy-for-high), by Bolton Bailey, 2025 - [Research Directions for Verifiable Crypto-Physically Secure TEEs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03183), by Sylvain Bellemare, 2024 - [Introducing Nebra Labs](https://nebra.one/article/introducing-nebra-labs), by Nebra Team, 2024 - [Backrunning private txs in MPC](https://writings.flashbots.net/backrunning-private-txs-MPC), by Robert Annessi, 2023 - [Paths toward single-slot finality](https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/single_slot_finality), by Vitalik Buterin, 2022 - [Speeding Up the EVM - Part 1](https://writings.flashbots.net/speeding-up-evm-part-1), by Xinyuan Sun, 2022 - [Understanding rollup economics from first principles](https://barnabe.substack.com/p/understanding-rollup-economics-from), by Barnabe Monnot, 2022 - [Block Building Inside SGX](https://writings.flashbots.net/block-building-inside-sgx), by Chris Hager, 2022 - [The Future of MEV is SUAVE](https://writings.flashbots.net/the-future-of-mev-is-suave), by Flashbots, 2022 - [State of research: increasing censorship resistance of transactions under proposer/builder separation (PBS)](https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/pbs_censorship_resistance), by Vitalik Buterin, 2021 - [Endgame](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/12/06/endgame.html), by Vitalik Buterin, 2021 - [A Formalization of MEV](https://writings.flashbots.net/formalization-mev), by Alejo Salles, 2021 - [The tradeoffs of cross-chain communication](https://www.lakshmansankar.com/#/tradeoffs-ccc), by Lakshman Sankar, 2021 - [Generalized Mining, The LP's Perspective](https://medium.com/cambrial-capital/generalised-mining-the-lps-perspective-72dfa2d22afd), by David Fauchier, 2018 ### resources collections - [Bookmarks relevant for r&d process and innovation systems researchers](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/bookmarks-relevant-for-r-d-process-and-innovation-systems-researchers/1081), 2023 - [Bookmarks relevant for mempool privacy researchers](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/bookmarks-relevant-for-mempool-privacy-researchers/1091), 2023 - [Bookmarks relevant for consensus researchers](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/bookmarks-relevant-for-consensus-researchers/1204), 2023 - [Bookmarks relevant for cross-domain researchers](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/bookmarks-relevant-for-cross-domain-researchers/753), 2022 - [Quantifying Total Extracted MEV – A List of Resources](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/quantifying-total-extracted-mev-a-list-of-resources/936), 2022