Remeasuring the Arbitrage and Sandwich Attacks of Maximal Extractable Value in Ethereum
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17944v1
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 08:17:15 GMT
- Title: Remeasuring the Arbitrage and Sandwich Attacks of Maximal Extractable Value in Ethereum
- Authors: Tianyang Chi, Ningyu He, Xiaohui Hu, Haoyu Wang,
- Abstract summary: Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) drives the prosperity of the blockchain ecosystem.
Before The Merge of 2022, around $675M was extracted in terms of MEV.
Our research will shed light on future MEV-related work.
- Score: 7.381773144616746
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) drives the prosperity of the blockchain ecosystem. By strategically including, excluding, or reordering transactions within blocks, block producers/validators can extract additional value, which in turn incentivizes them to keep the decentralization of the whole blockchain platform. Before The Merge of Ethereum in Sep. 2022, around \$675M was extracted in terms of MEV. Despite its importance, current measurement works on MEV suffer some limitations. First, current works only focus on transactions of a very limited number of DApps. Second, current methods heavily rely on fixed heuristic rule-based patterns, leading to false negative/positive. Third, the observations and conclusions are outdated to some extent due to the continuously introduced features, like The Merge in Ethereum. To address these challenges, in this work, we first propose two robust methods to identify arbitrage transactions and sandwich attacks, respectively. Then, we apply them to the largest-ever dataset to filter out related MEV transactions. Based on the identified results, we have characterized the overall landscape of the Ethereum MEV ecosystem, the impact the private transaction architectures bring, and the adoption of back-running mechanism. Our research will shed light on future MEV-related work.
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