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No Place to Hide: An Analysis on Protected Order Flow Sandwich Attacks
Lioba Heimbach, Ozan Solmaz, Burak Öz +1
Front-running has long plagued Ethereum's public mempool, earning it the nickname of a "dark forest", where predators lurk for profitable transactions. In response, Ethereum and ot…
The Price of Decentralization in Block Building
Burak Öz, Fei Wu, Luis Correia +3
Decentralized block building mechanisms replace the monopoly of a single proposer with multiple builders. However, their censorship-resistance and fair-access benefits depend not o…
To Wait or To Probe: Arbitrage Competition on High-Throughput Blockchains
Fei Wu, Burak Öz
Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) on high-throughput blockchains can be captured through targeted search, where bots identify opportunities off-chain and submit route-committed trans…
Just-in-Time Resale in an Ahead-of-Time Auction for Faster Execution
Burak Öz, Akaki Mamageishvili, Christoph Schlegel +1
We study Arbitrum's Timeboost auction, an ahead-of-time mechanism that sells a 200ms ordering advantage in an otherwise first-come, first-served transaction ordering policy. The ma…
Who Wins Ethereum Block Building Auctions and Why?
Burak Öz, Danning Sui, Thomas Thiery +1
The MEV-Boost block auction contributes approximately 90% of all Ethereum blocks. Between October 2023 and March 2024, only three builders produced 80% of them, highlighting the co…
Playing the MEV Game on a First-Come-First-Served Blockchain
Burak Öz, Jonas Gebele, Parshant Singh +2
Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) searching has gained prominence on the Ethereum blockchain since the surge in Decentralized Finance activities. In Ethereum, MEV extraction primaril…
A Study of MEV Extraction Techniques on a First-Come-First-Served Blockchain
Burak Öz, Filip Rezabek, Jonas Gebele +2
Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) has become a significant incentive on blockchain networks, referring to the value captured through the manipulation of transaction execution order a…
Time Moves Faster When There is Nothing You Anticipate: The Role of Time in MEV Rewards
Burak Öz, Benjamin Kraner, Nicolò Vallarano +3
This study explores the intricacies of waiting games, a novel dynamic that emerged with Ethereum's transition to a Proof-of-Stake (PoS)-based block proposer selection protocol. Wit…