This category is a space for general conversation related to Flashbots and MEV.

A space to discuss MEV research produced by Flashbots Research and our community.

Searchers specialize in detecting and extracting MEV by submitting advanced transactions bundles to builders.

Block builders construct blocks from transaction order flow and are trusted by searchers and users for fair transaction inclusion.

Relays are a trusted communication interface between block builders and proposers that validates and routes execution payloads.

Proposer are validators that has been pseudorandomly selected to propose a block for a given slot.