AGAlessio Gianniniinalessiogiannini.dev·Jul 18 · 7 min readMEV Does Not Disappear. The Question Is Where It Goes.1. The question has changed For the first years of DeFi, the conversation around MEV was mostly about prevention. Encrypted mempools, private transaction channels, commit-reveal schemes, mempool obfus00
AGAlessio Gianniniinalessiogiannini.dev·Jun 16 · 8 min readWhat MEV Actually Taught MeI was reading the Uniswap documentation when I first came across flash loans. The concept was simple: borrow any amount of liquidity, use it within a single transaction, return it before the block clo52B
AGAlessio Gianniniinalessiogiannini.dev·May 7 · 8 min readBuilding an Open MEV Simulation Engine for DeFi ArbitrageI built this because I needed it. As a MEV searcher, reaching a point where you want to reason seriously about arbitrage opportunities means you need a simulation engine: something that runs exact AMM10
SSatwikinzobyt.hashnode.dev·Apr 22 · 5 min readAutomated MEV discovery & execution infrastructure: building low-latency systems for on-chain value extractionMiner Extractable Value (MEV) is often described as an opportunity. In reality, it is an infrastructure problem. The difference between profit and loss is not the idea. It is latency, execution guara00
AGAlessio Gianniniinalessiogiannini.dev·Apr 20 · 8 min readIndexing DEX liquidity across EVM and Substrate chainsOfficial DEX subgraphs are built for dashboards. They produce one state snapshot per block, with no record of what happened inside it. For anyone who needs to reconstruct the exact sequence of price c00
AGAlessio Gianniniinalessiogiannini.dev·Apr 13 · 5 min readThe MEV Layer Cake Encrypted mempools are increasingly adopted as a structural response to MEV. The protection they provide is real but bounded: systems operating under this model are often assumed to be shielded more b10
AGAlessio Gianniniinalessiogiannini.dev·Apr 6 · 6 min readHow Sandwich Bots Extracted Value from Every Stake on Bittensor On Bittensor, for a certain period, every time a user staked/unstaked their tokens, a bot was ready to profit from it. It wasn't an exploit in the classic sense, no code vulnerability, no direct theft02L
Oohmygodindreamworksecurity.hashnode.dev·Mar 13 · 5 min readMEV Protection on Solana: A Developer's Guide to Defending DeFi Protocols Against Sandwich AttacksTL;DR Solana's high-throughput architecture doesn't make your protocol MEV-proof. Validators running custom block builders can reorder, insert, and delay transactions to extract value from your users. This guide covers practical defense patterns — fr...00
NKNeha Kumariinrandomticks.hashnode.dev·Aug 30, 2025 · 5 min readGhostLock: MEV ReaperAs part of the build week of Threshold Cryptography Bootcamp, I and Leny collaborated to build an optimal solution for one of the most defining issues in the blockchain ecosystem via ᴄᴏᴍʙɪɴɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʀʏᴘᴛᴏɢʀᴀᴘʜɪᴄ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀs ᴏғ ʙʟᴏᴄᴋʟᴏᴄᴋ-ᴇɴᴄʀʏᴘᴛɪᴏɴ ᴀɴᴅ ᴠᴇʀɪ...00
RRRafael Ribasinblog.triton.one·May 19, 2025 · 4 min readIntroducing Yellowstone Shield 🚫🛡️At Triton One, we believe every user and developer should have transparency and control over how their transactions move through the Solana network. As the validator landscape evolves—and Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) risks become more prominent—th...00