Devconnect in Istanbul marked one of the final major events of the year. Flashbots mates and collaborators joined together in Istanbul for a week of talks, workshops, and hacking. The excitement and energy around SUAVE at our researchathon and hackathon, in collaboration with the Uniswap Foundation, was a highlight of the week. Explore all the presentations and talks delivered by the Flashbots team below, as well as the winners from the hackathon and more!
This document will continuously be updated over the next weeks as additional recordings are uploaded.
Friday, Nov 10
- @Tomasz Staking Summit - Panel: Exploring sustainable optimization in the MEV pipeline with Tomasz Stańczak, Michael Moser and Alex Watts discuss the nuances of MEV, the current state of MEV extraction and how the landscape might evolve from here.
Sunday, Nov 12
- @dmarz Research Day: Infra Frontiers for Modular - PBS Expansion Pack: Land of L2s explore the rapidly evolving design space of PBS on L2s with the introduction of two new roles, sequencers and provers. (Slides)
Monday, Nov 13
- @sui414 - Datapalooza - Exploring Ethereum Mempool, Orderflow & MEV looks at trends in DEX activity, the shift of DEX Aggregators to solver models, and the rise of private liquidity through RFQ systems. (Slides)
- @Tomasz - StarknetCC - Decentralization, PBS, and MEV in Starknet
Tuesday, Nov 14
- @Tomasz Staking Summit - Bringing core staking innovations and L2s to institutions discusses recent Ethereum staking innovations, L2 scalability and institutional staking strategies.
- @Tomasz notDEVCON - Development of culture shares insights from the journey of Nethermind, emphasizing their culture and commitment to open source projects in the Ethereum ecosystem.
- @dmarz EVM Summit - MEVM: Private EVM computation for MEV
- @sui414 Fenbushi Capital Research Workshop - MEV & Orderflow & PBS - Orderflow, Mempool & Block Building
- @Quintus Fenbushi Capital Research Workshop: Panel: MEV & Orderflow & PBS - Panel On The Order Flow Landscape with Barnabé Monnot, Julian Ma, Thomas Thiery and Toni Wahrstätter delved into Ethereum’s out-of-protocol concerns with a focus on OFAs and relay-builder integrations.
Wednesday, Nov 15
- @Tomasz Nethermind Summit - Opening remarks
- @Tomasz L2 Days - Review of L2s approaches to fees, MEV, and decentralization
- @Tomasz L2 Days - Panel: Moar Intrastucture: Shared Sequencing moderated by Justin Drake and joined by Tomasz Stańczak, Josh Bowen, Charles Lu and Mark Tyneway highlights the complexities and potential of shared sequencing with a focus on neutrality, interoperability, and liquidity.
- @dmarz Nethermind Summit - SUAVE & SUAPPs — Decentralize your MEV application
- @Quintus Nethermind Summit - Deconstructing PBS in the L2 landscape looks at the history of PBS on Ethereum and evaluates PBS design on L2s. (Slides)
- @sui414 Qiming x Antalpha Labs - MEV Night - A Data Review of Orderflow and Block Building
- @dmarz & @ferranbt Devconnect - Workshop: SUAVE and SUAPPS
Thursday, Nov 16
- @Tomasz User Security Summit - Panel: Decentralisation of Web3 security
- @Tomasz Stanford BASS Lite Istanbul - Latest Developments in MEV
- @Tomasz Pragma Istanbul - Panel: Based Rollups and the MEV Gambit moderated by Justin Drake and joined by Tomasz Stańczak, Josh Bowen, Daniel Wang and Mark Tyneway discuss challenges in MEV reduction and distribution among rollups using shared- and decentralized sequencing.
- @Tina Pragma Istanbul - Panel: MEV: Fractalization of Block Building moderated by Tina and joined by Tarun Chitra, Anna George, Wee Howe Ang and Kubi Mensah discuss the evolving landscape of block building with a focus on intents, the roles of solvers and its implication on centralization.
Friday, Nov 17
- @sui414 Open Data Günü - Panel: Data in MEV with Danning Sui, Anna George, Hildebert Moulié, Bruce Mao and Murat Akdeniz.
- @Tomasz Rollup Frontier Day - L2 PBS Design Space & SUAVE Interface
- @dmarz ETHGlobal Istanbul -
SUAVE Workshop presents an abstract model of SUAVE, the core fundamentals behind its current architecture and explores some ideas for Uniswap V4 and SUAVE synergies. (Slides) - Together with Uniswap Foundation Flashbots hosted UNISUAVE Researchathon to dive deep into the realms of SUAVE and Uniswap V4 through exercises related to intents, SUAPPs and hooks.
Saturday, Nov 18
- @Tina and @timbeiko organized censorship.wtf to explore censorship resistance across the Ethereum stack and beyond, with speakers presenting from both Istanbul and Prague. (Slides)
Sunday, Nov 19
- UNISUAVE ETHGlobal Hackathon published by @dmarz presents the winners of the co-sponsored challenges by Flashbots and Uniswap Foundation at ETHGlobal Istanbul, focused on innovative SUAPPs and hook designs.
As always, you can find all upcoming talks and events in the Flashbots Collective calendar.
Until next time, check out our open roles and join the conversation here on the forum! 
