Welcome to 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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SearchersDiscover how to capture MEV opportunities on Ethereum responsibly with Flashbots.
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Eth UsersLink your wallet to Flashbots Protect to safeguard against frontrunning, benefit from backrunning MEV through the MEV-Share protocol, and receive assistance in recovering funds from scams.
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Validators, Builders & RelayersLeverage MEV-Boost to access a competitive block-building market, fostering greater competition, decentralization, and censorship-resistance for Ethereum.
About Flashbots
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.
You can interact with Flashbots via our Forum where we have dedicated categories for each of our efforts and welcome your contributions. Our work is open source and you can follow our progress under each Github repository of the Flashbots organization.