Date: Tuesday, August 6th (the day before SBC ‘24)
Duration: 9:00 AM- 5:30 PM ET
Venue: The Bloomberg Center @ Cornell Tech, Roosevelt Island (2 West Loop Rd, New York, NY 10044)
Registration: https://lu.ma/mevsbc24
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhsJnEnsLN4
All talk recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRHMe0bxkuenME27dNX2IegMHozU0S5P3
Previous MEV-SBC workshops: 2023, 2022
Maximal extractable value (MEV) is a measure devised to study consensus security by modeling the profit a miner (or validator, sequencer, or other privileged protocol actor) can make through their ability to arbitrarily include, exclude, or re-order transactions from the blocks they produce.
MEV is a complex and multidisciplinary research area, bringing together ideas from computer science, cryptography, economics, game theory, programing languages, and more. MEV-SBC aims to highlight important MEV research done in the past year and talks that will illuminate a new round of research problems the community should prioritize. The workshop is a satellite event of The Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC’24).
Agenda
Individual recordings and slides are hyperlinked beside each talk
9:00 AM registration opens, coffee and breakfast are served
Session 1: Privacy-Enabled MEV Solutions
- 10:00 AM “Oblivious RAM: From Theory to Large-Scale Adoption” Elaine Shi (slides, recording)
- 10:25 AM “Privacy in DeFi: Modularity, Grading, and Optimization” Tarun Chitra (slides, recording)
- 10:50 AM “Programmable Privacy for MEV” Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach (slides, recording)
11:15-11:45 AM coffee break
Session 2: Mechanisms for MEV Mitigation
- 11:45 AM “More Slides on Proposer Builder Separation” Mike Neuder (slides, recording)
- 12:10 PM “Centralization in Attester-Proposer Separation” Mallesh Pai (slides, recording)
- 12:35 PM “Sailfish: Towards Improving the Latency of DAG-based BFT” Kartik Nayak (slides, recording)
1:00-2:00 PM lunch
Session 3: MEV in Ethereum
- 2:00 PM “Cross-Rollup MEV: Non-Atomic Arbitrage Across Layer-2 Blockchains” Krzysztof Gogol (slides, recording)
- 2:25 PM “Who Wins Ethereum Block Building Auctions and Why?” Danning Sui and Burak Öz (slides, recording)
Panel: The Incentives of Short-Term Censorship Resistance
- 2:50 PM, Moderator Quintus Kilbourn, Panelists Max Resnick and Phil Daian, related resource: Braid (recording)
3:35-4:00 PM coffee break
Session 4: MEV and TEEs
- 4:00 PM "MEV BooTEE: A TEE Approach to Partial Block Building” Oana Barbu (slides, recording)
- 4:25 PM “Off-Chain Coordination via Liquefaction” James Austgen (slides, recording)
- 4:50 PM “Using TEEs Without Trusting Them” Fan Zhang (slides, recording)