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Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges

A measurement paper. Miners and bots reorder and insert transactions around DEX trades. The authors name miner-extractable value and show priority gas auctions. It is not a trading manual, and it is not a claim that any strategy here is available or profitable now.

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Authors
Philip Daian, Steven Goldfeder, Tyler Kell, Yunqi Li, Xueyuan Zhao, Iddo Bentov, Lorenz Breidenbach and Ari Juels
Date
2019
Publisher
Philip Daian, Steven Goldfeder, Tyler Kell, Yunqi Li, Xueyuan Zhao, Iddo Bentov, Lorenz Breidenbach and Ari Juels
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BLC-STUDY-0085
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A measurement paper. Miners and bots reorder and insert transactions around DEX trades. The authors name miner-extractable value and show priority gas auctions. It is not a trading manual, and it is not a claim that any strategy here is available or profitable now.

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Daian, P., Goldfeder, S., Kell, T., Li, Y., Zhao, X., Bentov, I., Breidenbach, L., & Juels, A. (2019). Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges. Philip Daian, Steven Goldfeder, Tyler Kell, Yunqi Li, Xueyuan Zhao, Iddo Bentov, Lorenz Breidenbach and Ari Juels. https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05234

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@techreport{flashboys22019,
  title = {Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges},
  author = {Philip Daian, Steven Goldfeder, Tyler Kell, Yunqi Li, Xueyuan Zhao, Iddo Bentov, Lorenz Breidenbach and Ari Juels},
  year = {2019},
  institution = {Philip Daian, Steven Goldfeder, Tyler Kell, Yunqi Li, Xueyuan Zhao, Iddo Bentov, Lorenz Breidenbach and Ari Juels},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05234},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/flash-boys-2}
}

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AU  - Iddo Bentov
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AU  - Ari Juels
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UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05234
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

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