Bundle together with fellow (re)searchers, block builders, and validators for an evening of rethinking on-chain physics, with cocktail and games.

20:20 Latency Incentives & Transaction Ordering 

20:40 Latency Considerations for Traders Post Merge 

Make MEV, Not (Latency) War

Due to limited space, we can only accept 30 people who can dedicate their entire day to the space to solve problems in MEV.

Please use the back door to enter the house! 

The MEV Research-athon is yet another form social experiment for collaborative research. We invite [re]searchers, protocol designers, data scientists from different organizations that are tackling a common problem space, to hack on some shared challenges.

Researchers can form “Special Purpose Vessels” - flash organizations of 3-5 researchers that team up based on interest in a particular challenge, to tackle specific research problems in an irl workshop.

To overcome the Babel Tower in collaboration, much of the day will be spent on calibration of knowledge via curated talks. Each of the talk should make references to prior speaker’s framework, language and mental models to maintain consistency.

By the end of the workshop, each of the teams should present their research question and methodologies similar to a 

, or design specifications, prototypes, etc…

Ideally, the research-athon may inspire participants to continue after the irl workshop, and turn the ideas and prototypes into POCs, blogposts, papers or future presentation.

For this particular mev [re]searchathon, the teams may be invited to present at our joint virtual event with ETHGlobal - Scaling Ethereum: 

mev [re]search-athon

Backrunning EthDenver

MEV Researchathon @SBC ‘23 is a multi-day event during SBC week focused on cross-team research-engineering collaboration to develop specs and prototypes to address thorny R&D challenges, which can further inspire papers or blogposts or open source tooling, etc. after the IRL researchathon ends.

Check out our forum post here for details: 

collective.flashbots.net/t/mev-researchathon-sbc-23/2303

Pre-game the researchathon on the Day 3 (final) afternoon of SBC ‘23 conference. Based on your research interests, skillz and commitment, our navigators may invite you to join their crew and whiteboard at the MEV Pi-rate Ship.

Spice up the researchathon peer review at a real BBQ, where the steak and the spec are roasted. The navigators will present the research problem and their solution design or framework for feedback.

🚀 DAY 3: Hacking → Shipping prototypes

You’ve heard enough galaxy brain research ideas this week at SBC and MEV workshops. If you are still around in the Bay Area, it’s time to build.

. If you would like to volunteer to be a navigator and summon a team to build on your own R&D open challenges, please respond directly in the forum thread at 

Angela Lu