Flashbots is a research and development organization working on mitigating the negative externalities of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) and avoiding the existential risks MEV could cause to stateful blockchains like Ethereum. Our primary focus is to enable a permissionless, transparent, and sustainable ecosystem for MEV, via a three-pronged approach:
Our efforts are separated into three sub-organizations:
Flashbots Research and Product are tightly-coupled dual engines that propel our organization forward in a phased approach:
Our work is open source and you can follow our progress in each respective repository of the Flashbots organization. Anyone is welcome to comment on an issue or pick it up entirely.
The best way to interact with the Flashbots community is through our forum, which is our central communication platform for conversations, announcements and information sharing. We also publish monthly transparency reports that aggregates information and provides summaries on everything Flashbots and MEV.
We are not your typical project, we are fully remote and our principles are based on that of a pirate hacker collective. If you are a self-directed individual who puts collective success above your own and is motivated by solving challenging problems with asymmetric impact, you will fit right in.
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