alex (@ObadiaAlex) / X

1/ after almost 3 years building flashbots, i've decided it's time for me to leave. thanks to my co-founders and the entire flashbots crew for 3 memorable years. for anyone interested, here's the message i sent to the team earlier today.

1/ Introducing explore.flashbots.net, a public dashboard and live MEV transactions explorer. We classified >1.3M MEV txs, found at least $314M worth of Extracted MEV since Jan 2020, and $4.5M wasted gas fees, equivalent to 4.5k Ethereum blocks wasted. medium.com/flashbots/quan…

alex

@ObadiaAlex

Dec 3, 2021

First wip paper out of Flashbots Research on MEV in a multi-chain, cross-domain future: arxiv.org/abs/2112.01472 How do we define it, what does it mean, and what will it do to the system we love? joint work w/ @fiiiu_ @lakshmansankar @tarunchitra @vaibhavchellani @phildaian

alex

@ObadiaAlex

Jun 9, 2021

New Flashbots research post! co-authored with @taarushv ⚡️🤖 'MEV in eth2 - an early exploration'

MEV in eth2 - an early exploration - HackMD

introducing quantum punks ⚛️ quantumpunks.org

new paper by @itranneo & @0xQuintus just released — arxiv.org/abs/2307.10878 “Threshold Encrypted Mempools: Limitations and Considerations” 🔥

arxiv.org

Mempool Privacy: An Economic Perspective

A growing body of literature is aimed at designing private mempools in blockchains. The ultimate goal of this research is addressing several phenomena broadly classed under MEV with sandwich...

hi! interrupting your markets news to share that i'm joining @ARIA_research as a programme director to invest in high-risk high-reward r&d that can benefit all of humanity.

ARIA

@ARIA_research

Apr 7, 2025

Introducing our second cohort of Programme Directors – a group of world-class scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs, with proven track records for building ventures, communities and technologies of societal and economic significance. 🚀 (1/3)

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👋 as part of an effort/experiment to do more 'research in the open', ive created a notion page with current & past research efforts i am working on, as well other hopefully useful information. lmk if you find it useful & have any comments!

alex’s flashbots workspace | Notion

From flashbots.notion.site

some research threads on the flashbots forum 🤠 collective.flashbots.net/t/quantifying-… @0xjepsen @karl_dot_tech @tkstanczak @l2beat @bkiepuszewski

collective.flashbots.net

FRP-24: Quantifying MEV on L2s

RE Polygon: “The main reason we sourced this data from another party is that, due to Polygon’s block size and rate, simulating and tracing transactions can be executed at only slightly faster than...

alex

@ObadiaAlex

Feb 27, 2023

(1/2) last week at BIU, Dan Boneh gave a presentation on MEV and laid out a prediction: the same way zero knowledge cryptography was catalyzed by blockchains over the last years, mpc & enclaves research will be catalyzed by the mev problem in the next years. i agree :)

1y ago today 🥳🎂 'The first Flashbots bundle was mined in block 11550019 on Dec-29–2020 04:33:22 PM UTC, kicking off what is poised to be the year of MEV.'

Ethereum Transaction Hash: 0x77c7d9e542... | Etherscan

writings.flashbots.net/research/fcfs-… Can First Come First Served-Based Transaction Ordering Prevent Front-Running? -- first article out of Flashbots Research from Robert Annessi 🔥🔥🔥

alex

@ObadiaAlex

Jan 22, 2023

any zk circuit auditing firms out there?

who wants to hang in Amsterdam during DevConnect? happy to jam with people on all things MEV ♾