2 papers
cs.GT2026
Just-in-Time Resale in an Ahead-of-Time Auction for Faster Execution
Burak Ãz, Burak Öz, Christoph Schlegel +2
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…
cs.GT2025
TimeBoost: Do Ahead-of-Time Auctions Work?
Akaki Mamageishvili, Christoph Schlegel, Ko Sunghun +2
We study the performance of the TimeBoost auction, by comparing cumulative fixed time markout of fast lane trades over the TimeBoost interval to bids for the fast lane. Such compar…