# FRP-24: Quantifying MEV on L2s

**URL:** https://collective.flashbots.net/t/frp-24-quantifying-mev-on-l2s/450
**Category:** FRPs - Flashbots Research Proposals
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**Created:** [October 5, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/frp-24-quantifying-mev-on-l2s/450 "2022-10-05T13:42:55Z")
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### Author: ![Eru\_Iluvatar](https://collective.flashbots.net/user_avatar/collective.flashbots.net/eru_iluvatar/32/310_2.png) [@Eru\_Iluvatar](https://collective.flashbots.net/u/Eru_Iluvatar)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://collective.flashbots.net/t/frp-24-quantifying-mev-on-l2s/450/37 "2023-06-30T14:33:42Z")

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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:

 ![image](https://collective.flashbots.net/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e00f0460839718d10fdda5a46400558bec3806fe.png)  
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](https://explore.marlin.org/#/).

Let us look at the number of MEV transactions over time:  
 ![image](https://collective.flashbots.net/uploads/default/original/2X/7/7f2086c7dacb484eff22433d96766f1aa169726b.png)

And now the historical MEV profit over time:  
 ![image](https://collective.flashbots.net/uploads/default/original/2X/1/1261595f27c839b9e1da9ed854a6de68699998b1.png)

And removing that big outlier (read [the full paper](https://www.arthur.bagourd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/frp_24_quantifying_mev_on_l2s.pdf) to find out more about it!) :

![image](https://collective.flashbots.net/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a80985137c20493806227ab8e6deab471243d1e0.png)

Now, in terms of mean and median MEV profit (USD) by tx, day and block:  
 ![image](https://collective.flashbots.net/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9126766a2a79f6fa96ca358e56270e9e24b9aeac.png)

(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).

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