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devcon 7 / is multi block mev a thing insights from 2 years of mev boost data

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Is multi-block MEV a thing? Insights from 2 years of MEV Boost Data

Duration: 00:18:05

Speaker: Pascal Stichler

Type: Lightning Talk

Expertise: Intermediate

Event: Devcon

Date: Nov 2024

Multi-block MEV describes MEV that arises from one party controlling several consecutive slots. Currently, it is discussed as a potential blocker for several prominent mechanism designs. We analyzed two years of MEV boost data covering more than 5 million slots to investigate historical patterns of it. Amongst other findings we see less multi-slot sequences occur than randomly feasible however that payments for longer sequences are higher than average.

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