​Maximal extractable value (MEV) is a measure devised to study consensus security by modeling the profit a miner (or validator, sequencer, or other privileged protocol actor) can make through their ability to arbitrarily include, exclude, or re-order transactions from the blocks they produce.

MEV is a complex and multidisciplinary research area, bringing together ideas from computer science, cryptography, economics, game theory, programing languages, and more. MEV-SBC aims to highlight important MEV research done in the past year and talks that will illuminate a new round of research problems the community should prioritize. The workshop is a satellite event of The Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC’24).

​**Please note that all participants will be required to check-in with campus security before entering the workshop, so allow a few minutes for that process.**

​Agenda

​9:00 AM registration opens, coffee and breakfast are served

​Session 1: Privacy-Enabled MEV Solutions

• ​10:00 AM "Oblivious RAM: From Theory to Large-Scale Adoption" Elaine Shi

• ​10:25 AM “Privacy in DeFi: Modularity, Grading, and Optimization” Tarun Chitra

• ​10:50 AM “Programmable Privacy for MEV” Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

​11:15-11:45 AM coffee break

​Session 2: Mechanisms for MEV Mitigation

• ​11:45 AM “More Slides on Proposer Builder Separation” Mike Neuder

• ​12:10 PM “Centralization in Attester-Proposer Separation” Mallesh Pai

• ​12:35 PM “Sailfish: Towards Improving the Latency of DAG-based BFT” Kartik Nayak

​1:00-2:00 PM lunch

​Session 3: MEV in Ethereum

• ​2:00 PM “Cross-Rollup MEV: Non-Atomic Arbitrage Across Layer-2 Blockchains” Krzysztof Gogol

• ​2:25 PM “Who Wins Ethereum Block Building Auctions and Why?” Danning Sui and Burak Öz

​2:50 Panel: The Incentives of Short-Term Censorship Resistance (moderator Quintus Kilbourn, panelists TBA)

​3:35-4:00 PM coffee break

​Session 4: MEV and TEEs

• ​4:00 PM "MEV BooTEE: A TEE Approach to Partial Block Building” Oana Barbu

• ​4:25 PM “Off-Chain Coordination via Liquefaction” James Austgen

• ​4:50 PM “Using TEEs Without Trusting Them” Fan Zhang