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  {
    "category": "Flashbots Writings",
    "title": "Why Location Choice Matters",
    "date": "2026-08-08",
    "authors": "Burak Öz, Fei Wu, Luis Correia, Sen Yang, Bruno Mazorra",
    "url": "https://writings.flashbots.net/why-location-choice-matters"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "The Price of Decentralization in Block Building",
    "date": "2026-06-01",
    "authors": "Burak Öz (Flashbots), Fei Wu (Flashbots), Luis Correia (Flashbots), Sen Yang (Flashbots), Bruno Mazorra (Flashbots), Stefanos Leonardos",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01874"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Just-in-Time Resale in an Ahead-of-Time Auction: An Event Study",
    "date": "2026-03-23",
    "authors": "Burak Öz (Flashbots), Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots), Akaki Mamageishvili",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20175"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "Timing Games: Probabilistic backrunning and spam",
    "date": "2026-03-13",
    "authors": "Bruno Mazorra (Flashbots), Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots), Akaki Mamageishvili",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/timing-games-probabilistic-backrunning-and-spam/5614"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Timing Games: Probabilistic Backrunning and Spam",
    "date": "2026-02-25",
    "authors": "Bruno Mazorra (Flashbots), Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots), Akaki Mamageishvili",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22032"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Writings",
    "title": "Network Anonymized Mempools",
    "date": "2026-02-17",
    "authors": "",
    "url": "https://writings.flashbots.net/network-anonymized-mempools"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Geographical Centralization Resilience in Ethereum’s Block-Building Paradigms",
    "date": "2026-01-19",
    "authors": "Sen Yang, Burak Öz (Flashbots), Fei Wu, Fan Zhang",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21475"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "The CoinAlg Bind: Profitability-Fairness Tradeoffs in Collective Investment Algorithms",
    "date": "2026-01-02",
    "authors": "Andrés Fábrega, James Austgen, Samuel Breckenridge, Jay Yu, Amy Zhao, Sarah Allen (Flashbots), Aditya Saraf, Ari Juels",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00523"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "A Consensus Layer Client Diversity Snapshot",
    "date": "2025-12-18",
    "authors": "Data Always",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/a-consensus-layer-client-diversity-snapshot/5431"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "How the MEV Supply Chain Reacts to Circuit Breakers",
    "date": "2025-12-16",
    "authors": "Data Always",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/how-the-mev-supply-chain-reacts-to-circuit-breakers/5439"
  },
  {
    "category": "ethresear.ch Post",
    "title": "Trustless Payments",
    "date": "2025-12-10",
    "authors": "Bruno Mazorra, Christoph Schlegel, Quintus Kilbourn, Burak Öz, Luis Correia",
    "url": "https://ethresear.ch/t/trustless-payments/23635"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Time/Space Tradeoffs for Generic Attacks on Delay Functions",
    "date": "2025-12-05",
    "authors": "Kasper Green Larsen, Mark Simkin (Flashbots)",
    "url": "https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-12290-2_15"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "TimeBoost: Do Ahead-of-Time Auctions Work?",
    "date": "2025-11-23",
    "authors": "Akaki Mamageishvili, Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots), Ko Sunghun, Jinsuk Park, Ali Taslimi",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18328"
  },
  {
    "category": "ethresear.ch Post",
    "title": "Dynamic Penalties for ePBS",
    "date": "2025-11-19",
    "authors": "Christoph Schlegel, Bruno Mazorra",
    "url": "https://ethresear.ch/t/dynamic-penalties-for-epbs/23472"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Conditional Recall",
    "date": "2025-10-24",
    "authors": "Christoph Schlegel, Xinyuan Sun",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21904"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Cross-Chain Sealed-Bid Auctions Using Confidential Compute Blockchains",
    "date": "2025-10-22",
    "authors": "Jonas Gebele, Timm Mutzel, Burak Öz (Flashbots), Florian Matthes",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19491"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Attestation of Host Networking Stack for TEEs",
    "date": "2025-10-14",
    "authors": "Filip Rezabek, Moe Mahhouk",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12469"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "The Free Option Problem of ePBS",
    "date": "2025-09-29",
    "authors": "Bruno Mazorra, Burak Öz, Christoph Schlegel, Quintus Kilbourn",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24849"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Geographic Decentralization Simulation",
    "date": "2025-09-25",
    "authors": "Burak Öz, Sen Yang",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21475v2"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Differentially Private Aggregate Hints in MEV-Share",
    "date": "2025-08-19",
    "authors": "Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Sarisht Wadhwa",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14284"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "The Free Option Problem in ePBS, Part II",
    "date": "2025-08-04",
    "authors": "Christoph Schlegel, Fei Wu, Burak Öz, Bruno Mazorra",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/the-free-option-problem-in-epbs-part-ii/5145"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Silent Threshold Encryption with One-Shot Adaptive Security",
    "date": "2025-07-29",
    "authors": "Mathias Hall-Andersen, Mark Simkin (Flashbots), Benedikt Wagner",
    "url": "https://ia.cr/2025/1384"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "An MEV Perspective on Glamsterdam",
    "date": "2025-07-23",
    "authors": "Data Always, Hasu",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/an-mev-perspective-on-glamsterdam/5116"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "The Free Option Problem in ePBS",
    "date": "2025-07-23",
    "authors": "Christoph Schlegel, Bruno Mazorra",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/the-free-option-problem-in-epbs/5115"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "Detecting Cross-Chain Arbitrages in the Wild",
    "date": "2025-07-22",
    "authors": "Burak Öz",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/detecting-cross-chain-arbitrages-in-the-wild/5107"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Arbitrage with Bounded Liquidity",
    "date": "2025-07-02",
    "authors": "Christoph Schlegel, Quintus Kilbourn",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02027"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Maximal Extractable Value in Batch Auctions",
    "date": "2025-07-02",
    "authors": "Mengqian Zhang, Yuhao Li, Xinyuan Sun (Flashbots), Elynn Chen, Xi Chen",
    "url": "https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3736252.3742581"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "Defining Geographic Decentralisation",
    "date": "2025-06-27",
    "authors": "Phil Daian",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/geographic-decentralisation-research-directions/5040"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "The LVR Gap for Random Block Times",
    "date": "2025-06-26",
    "authors": "Christoph Schlegel",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/the-lvr-gap-for-random-block-times-a-quick-and-useful-approximation/5038"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "Fugitive Nodes",
    "date": "2025-06-19",
    "authors": "Leo Arias",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/fugitive-nodes/4773"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "RISC-V Explorations",
    "date": "2025-06-19",
    "authors": "Leo Arias",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/risc-v/4793"
  },
  {
    "category": "Excalidraw",
    "title": "Counter Mapping",
    "date": "2025-06-19",
    "authors": "Leo Arias",
    "url": "https://link.excalidraw.com/l/7Qr2ek3pfMQ/91UiAs0EApG"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Narrowing the Gap between TEEs Threat Model and Deployment Strategies",
    "date": "2025-06-17",
    "authors": "Filip Rezabek, Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14964"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Writings",
    "title": "Scalable Oblivious Accesses to Blockchain Data",
    "date": "2025-06-02",
    "authors": "Afonso Tinoco (Flashbots), Tianyao Gu, Elaine Shi, Andrew Miller (Flashbots)",
    "url": "https://writings.flashbots.net/scalable-oblivious-accesses-to-blockchain-data"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Robust Distributed Arrays: Provably Secure Networking for Data Availability Sampling",
    "date": "2025-04-18",
    "authors": "Dankrad Feist, Gottfried Herold, Mark Simkin (Flashbots), Benedikt Wagner",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13757"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Encrypted Backruns",
    "date": "2025-04-14",
    "authors": "Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach",
    "url": "https://fc25.ifca.ai/preproceedings/238.pdf"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "The Block Auction Arms Race",
    "date": "2025-03-03",
    "authors": "Data Always",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/the-block-auction-infrastructure-race/4734"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "NDAI Agreements",
    "date": "2025-02-11",
    "authors": "Matthew Stephenson, Andrew Miller (Flashbots), Xyn Sun (Flashbots), Bhargav Annem, Rohan Parikh",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07924"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Cross-Chain Arbitrage",
    "date": "2025-01-28",
    "authors": "Burak Öz, Bruno Mazorra, Christoph Schlegel",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17335"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "The Role of Relays in Reorgs",
    "date": "2024-12-20",
    "authors": "Data Always",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/the-role-of-relays-in-reorgs/4247"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Liquefaction: Privately Liquefying Blockchain Assets",
    "date": "2024-12-03",
    "authors": "James Austgen, Andrés Fábrega, Mahimna Kelkar, Dani Vilardell, Sarah Allen (Flashbots), Kushal Babel, Jay Yu, Ari Juels",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02634"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Writings",
    "title": "ZTEE - Trustless Supply Chains",
    "date": "2024-11-08",
    "authors": "Quintus Kilbourn (Flashbots), Sylvain Bellemare, Bunnie, Michael Gao",
    "url": "https://writings.flashbots.net/ZTEE2-Supply-Chains"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Writings",
    "title": "Zero Trust Execution Environments",
    "date": "2024-10-11",
    "authors": "Quintus Kilbourn (Flashbots), Sylvain Bellemare, Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Andrew Miller (Flashbots)",
    "url": "https://writings.flashbots.net/ZTEE"
  },
  {
    "category": "ethresear.ch Post",
    "title": "Understanding Minimum Blob Base Fees",
    "date": "2024-09-25",
    "authors": "Data Always",
    "url": "https://ethresear.ch/t/understanding-minimum-blob-base-fees/20489"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "Proposing Rights Allocation “SoK”",
    "date": "2024-09-13",
    "authors": "Christoph Schlegel, Quintus Kilbourn",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/isolating-attesters-from-mev/3837"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "Inelastic vs. Elastic Supply: Why PoS Could Be Less Centralizing Than Execution Tickets",
    "date": "2024-09-02",
    "authors": "Christoph Schlegel",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/inelastic-vs-elastic-supply-why-proof-of-stake-could-be-less-centralizing-than-execution-tickets/3816"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "On Sybil-proof Mechanisms",
    "date": "2024-07-19",
    "authors": "Minghao Pan (Flashbots), Bruno Mazorra (Flashbots), Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots), Akaki Mamageishvili",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14485"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Who Wins Ethereum Block Building Auctions and Why?",
    "date": "2024-07-18",
    "authors": "Burak Öz (Flashbots), Danning Sui (Flashbots), Thomas Thiery, Florian Matthes",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13931"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Searcher Competition in Block Building",
    "date": "2024-07-10",
    "authors": "Akaki Mamageishvili, Christoph Schlegel (Flashbots), Benny Sudakov, Danning Sui (Flashbots)",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07474"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "Pricing Execution Rights when Rewards are Mean Reverting",
    "date": "2024-06-30",
    "authors": "Christoph Schlegel",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/pricing-execution-rights-when-rewards-are-mean-reverting/3618"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "OCash: Fully Anonymous Payments between Blockchain Light Clients",
    "date": "2024-02-15",
    "authors": "Adam Blatchley Hansen, Jesper Buus Nielsen, Mark Simkin (Flashbots)",
    "url": "https://ia.cr/2024/246"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Playing the MEV Game on a First-Come-First-Served Blockchain",
    "date": "2024-01-15",
    "authors": "Burak Öz (Flashbots), Jonas Gebele, Parshant Singh, Filip Rezabek (Flashbots), Florian Matthes",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07992"
  },
  {
    "category": "Flashbots Collective Forum Posts",
    "title": "When to Sell Your Blocks",
    "date": "2023-12-14",
    "authors": "Quintus Kilbourn",
    "url": "https://collective.flashbots.net/t/when-to-sell-your-blocks/2814"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Cooperative AI via Decentralized Commitment Devices",
    "date": "2023-11-14",
    "authors": "Xinyuan Sun (Flashbots), Davide Crapis, Matt Stephenson, Barnabé Monnot, Thomas Thiery, Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach (Flashbots)",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07815"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "DAO Decentralization: Voting-Bloc Entropy, Bribery, and Dark DAOs",
    "date": "2023-11-06",
    "authors": "James Austgen, Andrés Fábrega, Sarah Allen (Flashbots), Kushal Babel, Mahimna Kelkar, Ari Juels",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03530"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "A Study of MEV Extraction Techniques on a First-Come-First-Served Blockchain",
    "date": "2023-08-12",
    "authors": "Burak Öz (Flashbots), Jonas Gebele, Parshant Singh, Filip Rezabek, Florian Matthes",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06513"
  },
  {
    "category": "Academic Papers",
    "title": "Time Moves Faster When There is Nothing You Anticipate: The Role of Time in MEV Rewards",
    "date": "2023-07-11",
    "authors": "Burak Öz (Flashbots), Benjamin Kraner, Nicolò Vallarano, Bingle Stegmann Kruger, Florian Matthes, Claudio Juan Tessone",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05814"
  }
]