MEVconomic's Panel: Speedrunning Finance Latency in MEV
summary
Empirical message‑level data from the London Stock Exchange and a UK FCA study show race arbitrage dominates: about 20% of trading volume is racing, the modal winner‑loser gap is roughly five microseconds, and the top three firms win over 50% of races (top six ≈85%). Cloud nodes, sequencer fee tradeoffs, SGX ideas and FPGA hardware create concrete centralizing edges; frequent batch auctions and Flashbots‑style mechanisms reduce some wasteful latency rent seeking but do not eliminate MEV across cross‑venue, conditional or stateful trades.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:20Michael Jordan
- 5:18Solana World
- 8:03Winner Takes All
- 12:40The Nature of Time
- 26:10Crypto vs Traditional Markets
- 31:10Competition on Risk
- 33:26Resilience
- 38:56Speculative Triggering
- 39:58Trolling
- 45:50Frequent Batch Auctions
- 49:38ISO Orders
- 51:56General Purpose Chains
- 55:18Hardware Edge
