How much profits does MEV bots 🤖 really make from CEX-DEX Arbitrage?
No one can answer this question before, but we are excited to share a new paper measuring it with formal methods finally! (We got accepted by AFT25' !🥳)
I summarized all the alpha in one pic for you 😃
Research Director @PanteraCapital. co-host @indexed_pod. previously data @ Flashbots ⚡️🤖 @0xProject @ConsenSys.
- If you are designing a DEX in 2025 and haven't read the post from @0xProject in 2022 to understand "how price Impact and slippage are different and impact users" sit your ass down and study this: 0x.org/post/measuring…
- DEN airport right now: Ethereum tx mempool
- >50% of trading volume on Uniswap are consumed by MEV bot, while only 16.3% volume (potentially less) now are originated from Uniswap UI. Another quarter are consumed by aggregators, and another 21.3% consumed by unknown applications (partially potentially bots too).
- OH at devconnect - "so wydt of intent?" A market maker: "I'm skeptical about this massive rebrand of Limit Orders"
- Excited to share the new home for Pantera Research Lab! 💫 🌐 panteraresearchlab.xyz Pantera Research Lab is where we study, build, and publish the ideas shaping the next era of digital assets. Our DNA: 🧮 Data, 🔬 Research, and 🧪 Catalyze
- Excited to share our latest paper with @ballsyalchemist @dex_chen_V from @thelatestindefi TLDR fellowship - measuring Execution Welfare on solver-based DEX (CoWSwap, 1inch Fusion and UniswapX). So which DEX has better price 👑 for users? A thread 🧵: Paper Link:
- ✨ Job Update ✨ After almost 3 yrs at @0xProject , I’ve recently made change to jump deeper in MEV rabbithole! (picture rendered by Midjourney: a girl stepping into the glorious dark forest.)
- Today, ~15% of Ethereum Txs are landed thru Private Mempools. Cross-checking txs seen by public mempools, we are able to observe the trend of Ethereum txs moving towards private channels over time - thru metrics across the Tx Settlement Stack on Ethereum. 👀 🧵👇
- I love DevCon I love Ethereum community. It’s my community and Ethereum is our identity. Walking inside the venue I feel so much of a giving culture, shared values, connected feelings. 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶
- ~80% of DEX swaps on Ethereum are goin thru private mempool now this number 2x in the past 6 months since April data s/o @dataalways dune.com/data_always/pr…
- This graph is a re-statement of @0xProject mission: create a tokenized world where all value can flow freely. ✨ A thread 👇of cross-chain stats & user behaviors based on 0x API volume: (1/x)
- It's time to talk about L2 MEV! L2s activities surged after Dencun. As the cost goes down, more bot activities and spamming tactics appear. They cause 2 problems: gas congestions & high reverts. On Base, BananaGun Telegram Bot users pay 43x‼️ higher gas price than other users!













