Date: Thursday, August 7th (the day after SBC ‘25)
Duration: 9:00 AM- 6:00 PM ET
Venue: UC Berkeley Campus
Registration: https://lu.ma/MEVSBC25
Livestream: YouTube
Previous MEV-SBC workshops: 2024, 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’25).
Agenda
9:00 AM registration opens
Session 1: Secure Processors
- 10:00 AM “TTEE: Marrying Cryptography and Physics” Quintus Kilbourn
- 10:25 AM “Optimizing Compiler for Oblivious Computation” Elaine Shi
10:50-11:10 AM coffee break
Session 2: MEV-Aware Mechanisms for Ethereum
- 11:10 AM “Endgame EIP-1559” Davide Crapis
- 11:35 AM “AUCIL: An Inclusion List Design for Rational Parties” Sarisht Wadhwa
12:00-1:00 PM lunch
Session 3: MEV in Ethereum L2
- 1:00 PM “Optimistic MEV in Ethereum Layer 2s: Why Blockspace Is Always in Demand” Lioba Heimbach
- 1:25 PM “TimeBoost: Auctioning Time-Advantage in FCFS” Akaki Mamageishvili
1:50-2:10 PM coffee break
Session 4: Privacy-Enabled MEV Solutions
- 2:10 PM "Accountable Cryptography and its Incentives” Mahimna Kelkar
- 2:35 PM “BEAT-MEV: Epochless Approach to Batched Threshold Encryption for MEV Prevention” Jan Bormet
- 3:00 PM “Building Concretely Efficient Anonymous Communication Systems” Mark Simkin
3:25-3:50 PM coffee break
Session 5: MEV-Aware Consensus and Fee Mechanisms
- 3:50 PM “Consensus Under Adversary Majority Done Right” Joachim Neu
- 4:15 PM “Multiple Concurrent Leaders: Why and How” Pranav Garimidi
Panel: Geographic Decentralization
- 4:45 PM Moderator Phil Daian, Panelists John Adler, Quintus Kilbourn, Pranav Garimidi
5:30 PM workshop concludes