We already gave a summary of our results for Arbitrum and Optimism, so let us give the results for Polygon.
First, the results from the above poll:
The correct answer is 200M-500M, which, only 7% of you guessed correctly (well, with 13 answers, it’s not really significant
).
The exact number is: $213 Mio, which is >4x the $46 Mio estimate from Marlin.
Let us look at the number of MEV transactions over time:
And now the historical MEV profit over time:
And removing that big outlier (read the full paper to find out more about it!) :
Now, in terms of mean and median MEV profit (USD) by tx, day and block:
(we did some analysis for all days/blocks and for days/blocks that have MEV in them, the reason is that most of the blocks at the beginning do not have no MEV so they skew the data).