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canonical readings

2023

• ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rollups are not real, by jon charbonneau
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ encrypted mempools, by jon charbonneau
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ mev on ethereum: a policy analysis, by m. barczentewicz

2022

• ⭐️⭐⭐⭐ towards a theory of mev I, by diamandis et al.

2021

• ⭐⭐⭐ mev and me, by paradigm
• ⭐⭐⭐ return to the dark forest, by rekt
• ⭐⭐⭐ hiding in plain sight, by samczsun
• ⭐⭐⭐⭐ we live in a mempool, by tom schmidt
• ⭐️⭐⭐ how to light up the dark forest, by robert miller
• ⭐️⭐ the 0 to 1 guide to mev, by blockchain at berkeley
• ⭐️⭐ how to build an ethereum mining pool, by dragonfly
• ⭐️⭐⭐️ how i learned to stop worrying and love mev, by sreeni
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️ quantifying blockchain extractable value: how dark is the forest?, by kaihua qin et al.
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️ the enemy of your enemy is not your friend, by kobayashi
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ foundations of blockchains and mev, by tim roughgarden

2020

• ⭐️⭐⭐⭐⭐ escaping the dark forest, by samczsun
• ⭐️⭐⭐ ethereum is a dark forest, by paradigm
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️ tricking frontrunners into being transaction relayers, by sankar4033

2019

• ⭐⭐⭐⭐ flash boys 2.0, by p. daian et al.
• ⭐⭐️⭐️ transparent dishonesty: front-running attacks on blockchain, by shayan eskandari et al.

2017

• ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ implementing ethereum trading front-runs on the bancor exchange, by ivan bogatyy

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• ⭐️⭐️⭐️ teal organizations wiki
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the hacker manifest, by the mentor
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ bitcoin whitepaper, by satoshi nakamoto
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the cypherpunk manifest, by eric hughes
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️ the meaning of decentralization, by vitalik
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the crypto anarchist manifest, by timothy c. may
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ a graduate course in applied cryptography, by dan boneh