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Flashbots

Flashbots

Flashbots is a research and development organization formed to mitigate the negative externalities posed by Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) to stateful blockchains, starting with Ethereum.
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Description

Our primary focus is to enable a permissionless, transparent, and sustainable ecosystem for MEV, via a three-pronged approach: • Illuminate: bringing transparency to MEV activity, quantifying its impact, and reducing information asymmetry between participants. • Democratize: democratizing access to MEV via open platforms that maximize competition and are freely available to all. • Distribute: enabling sustainable distribution of any remaining MEV. Product & research are the semi-autonomous dual engines that propel our organization forward: • Flashbots Product builds core infrastructure and ecosystem tooling that redefine the block production supply chain across blockchains and protect users. • Flashbots Research explores MEV market dynamics and blockchain design challenges at the intersection of economics, security, and cryptography.

Grant Funding

VC Funding

None
2023

$0

$60M

Technology & Skills

Uncover the hard and soft skills and tools employed by the organization, and gain insight into the technologies that drive their success
SEQUENCER
RUNTIME
RETH
TRUSTED EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT
RELAYER
RBUILDER
MEV-BOOST
MEV
GETH
OPEN SOURCE
INFRASTRUCTURE
DEFI
NETWORKING
OBSERVABILITY
CI/CD
BLOCK BUILDER
OPERATING SYSTEM
SYSTEM INTERNALS
ANSIBLE
INCIDENT RESPONSE
L1
L2
BASH
TEE
LINUX
BARE-METAL
SRE
TERRAFORM
CLOUD
DEVOPS
GRAFANA
PROMETHEUS
HELM
PYTHON
KUBERNETES
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM
BLOCKCHAIN
RUNBOOK
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
BUILD PIPELINE
SANDBOXING
INTEL TDX
OCI
SGX
VIRTUAL MACHINE
ATTESTATION
ORCHESTRATION
DOCKER
DEPLOYMENT
DOCUMENTATION
PODMAN
REPRODUCIBLE BUILD
MICROVM
RESOURCE ISOLATION
CONTAINER