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Welcome to SUAVE

If MEV only benefits the few, we cannot realise the permissionless, censorship-resistant systems that crypto promises.

SUAVE unifies how we coordinate without forcing any one mechanism onto everyone. SUAVE does not replace other blockchains: it is intended to aggregate and coordinate all the things that ultimately change the state of other chains.

SUAVE is a permissionless and open marketplace for many mechanisms. SUAVE enables anyone to innovate, design, and deploy different applications that mitigate MEV on any other blockchain. Such "MEV applications" can provide a sustainable defender's advantage against centralizing economic forces both within and beyond crypto.

Reducing the economic centralization pressure on other blockchains enables:

I.

Blockchains
to decentralize power, not just architecture

II.

Block builders
to decentralize their work and access more orderflow

III.

Validators
to participate on a level playing field across domains

IV.

Humans
to transact fairly, with the best execution.

SUAVE is unifying infrastructure in which the incentives for all actors in the transaction supply chain are aligned around shared ownership, rather than private economies of scale.

We must make sure block building - and the power it implies - ends up meaningfully decentralized, because decentralization is a means towards the end where crypto helps us realise permissionless, censorship-resistant, and verifiable public systems which are genuinely good for the communities who use them.

About this site​

This site encourages you to move through a specific flow in order to start building the future of coordination.

  1. Begin with tutorials. These are learning-oriented. They focus on practical skills, not theoretical knowledge. Our goal with the tutorials is that you enjoy the experience and gain confidence, not that you become an expert.
  2. Grow with the how to guides. These are task-oriented. You can think of them like recipes. Following a recipe requires basic competence. Recipes do not give you context or history: they will help you do stuff. All the recipes taken together help frame a general picture of how SUAVE enables you.
  3. Consult the technical details. These are information-oriented and provide you with up-to-date certainty about what interfaces and precompiles SUAVE provides and where to find them. These are our treasure maps, which tell you what you need to know about the territory you're working in, without having to go and constantly check yourself.
  4. Refine your understanding of MEV. This section is discussion-oriented. It does not present "the right way", but rather encourages you to reflect on "the deep why", ideally in dialogue with friends. Why does it matter that we work on MEV?
Fairier Transformers

Unified, decentralized​

After formalizing the threat posed by MEV, and creating MEV-Geth to begin addressing it, Flashbots has collaborated with many people and organizations to build neutral open-source software like MEV-Boost and MEV-Share. Our work has prevented the worst effects of MEV, though many problems remain.

SUAVE is our means of keeping block building decentralized by creating an open marketplace for mechanisms for any kind of MEV application. As an open marketplace for mechanisms, SUAVE can also act as a shared sequencing layer for other blockchains, helping them remain resilient in the face of economic forces that encourage centralization and/or specialization over time.

There are many reasons why we think the market will evolve toward many chains sharing a unified sequencing layer specifically designed to keep power decentralized across the ecosystem:

  1. Block builders who only operate on a single domain will find themselves increasingly disadvantaged due to cross-domain MEV.
  2. There are efficiency gains for users from aggregating and clearing their preferences inside the same auction.
  3. The credible neutrality of an open marketplace in which many parties share their views, strategies, and opinions gives SUAVE an information advantage on centralized builders.
  4. Enabling computation on sensitive data (user orderflow) in a permissionless setting is hard. By solving it once, we can amortize the cost across the ecosystem and provide better solutions more cheaply than any individual participant could.
  5. Because of how fundamental transaction sequencing is in blockchains, only another decentralized system can provide the necessary security and credible neutrality.

To read more about what inspires us, we recommend this post.

About Flashbots​

Our primary focus is to enable a permissionless, transparent, and fair ecosystem for MEV. We achieve this in three ways: Illuminate the Dark Forest, Democratize Extraction, and Distribute Benefits.

  • Research: open, transparent, and collaborative research to tackle short and long term research questions relevant to MEV.
  • Product: engineering products to fulfill our mission.
  • Coordination: organizing processes, interfacing with external teams in the ecosystem, and maximizing our impact.

You can interact with Flashbots on our Discourse forum or in Discord. Our work is open source and you can follow our progress in each Github repository.