MEV Activities Since the Merge - Strategies, Searchers and Builders during Market Panic
summary
Six months after the Merge the chain records about 146,000 ETH sent to validators (~$260M today) with two single-day spikes: ~4,000 ETH during FTX (Nov 9) and ~6,000 ETH during the SVB/USDC panic (Mar 11). Data uses realized extractable value from on‑chain traces and tooling like MEV-Explore and Flashbots metrics. Relay count increases, top builders lose share as many small builders capture ~60% in the recent panic, most blocks arrive in the last two seconds and winning blocks land ~149 ms before slot start.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:18Overview
- 3:00MEV Activities
- 7:07Latency
- 9:22Recent Market Panic
- 12:05Interest Data
- 12:32Bank Run Data
- 14:10Search Strategies
- 15:50Search Strategy by Protocol
- 16:51Latency Gain
- 18:11Cross Domain
- 19:43Top 10 Arbitrage
- 20:40Summary
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