The MEV Workshop at the Science of Blockchain Conference 2026 (MEV-SBC '26)
Date: Thursday, July 30th (the day after SBC ‘26)
Duration: 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Venue: McCaw Hall (the main auditorium), Arrillaga Alumni Center (326 Galvez St), Stanford University. Map
Parking: Galvez Lot (L-96, 296 Galvez St), preregister your vehicle here
Previous MEV-SBC workshops: 2025, 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, programming 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 '26).
Agenda
9:30–10:00 AM 
Welcome coffee & registration
Session 1: Proposers, Inclusion & Networking
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10:00 AM “Optimum Peer Turbo: A Scalable and Efficient Solution for P2P Broadcasting” — Muriel Médard
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10:20 AM “AMP: Arc Multi-Proposer Protocol with Bounded Inclusion Guarantees” — Preston Vander Vos and Gordon Liao
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10:40 AM “The Economics of Transaction Landing Under MCP” — Pranav Garimidi
11:00–11:15 AM Coffee break
Session 2: Markets, Execution & Data
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11:15 AM “Flash Boys or Superforecasters? Prediction Markets in the Wild” — Danning Sui
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11:35 AM “Volatility in Prediction Markets: A Structural Approach” — Ciamac Moallemi
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11:55 AM “Optimal Trading Speed on Blockchain” — Ruizhe Jia
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12:15 PM “EVM Workloads in the Wild: Evidence for Multi-Dimensional Gas Metering, State Growth, Delayed Execution, and Parallelism” — Lioba Heimbach
12:35–2:00 PM 
Lunch
Panel: Predictions for the Bot Economy
- 2:00 PM Moderator Quintus Kilbourn, Panelists Kollan House, Ciamac Moallemi, Phil Daian
2:30–3:00 PM Coffee break
Session 3: Privacy and Next Gen MEV
- 3:00 PM “Flashnet: Protocol to Prototype” — Mark Simkin & Mateusz Morusiewicz
- 3:40 PM “A Field Guide to Agentic MEV: Emerging Problems and Methods” — Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach
- 4:00 PM “The CoinAlg Bind: Profitability-Fairness Tradeoffs in Collective Investment Algorithms” — Sam Breckenridge
4:20–4:45 PM Coffee break
Working Group Session
- 4:45 PM Topics:
- MCP, Latency, and Geography
- Prediction Markets
- Anonymous Broadcast
- Agentic MEV
5:30 PM Workshop concludes
Livestream, recording, and slide links will be added once available