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Welcome to SUAVE

If MEV only benefits the few, we cannot realize 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 mechanisms. SUAVE enables anyone to innovate, design, and deploy different applications that mitigate issues caused by MEV on any other blockchain. Such "MEV applications" can provide rich incentives that help us steer clear of the centralizing economic forces both within and beyond crypto.

Reducing the economic centralization pressure on other blockchains enables:

I.

System designers
to decentralize power, not just architecture

II.

Block builders
to decentralize infra, accessing more orderflow

III.

Validators
to maximise revenue in a constructive way

IV.

People
to transact fairly, with the best execution

SUAVE is unifying infrastructure in which the incentives for all actors in the transaction supply network 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 realize 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 here 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. Get your developer keys. These are information-oriented and provide insight into why SUAVE works in the way that our guides and tutorials illustrate. These are for application developers and ecosystem partners.
  4. Consult the technical specs. These are also information-oriented and provide you with up-to-date certainty about the software we provide. These are for SUAVE contributors and integrators.
  5. 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?
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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 protocols like 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, which require one (or many) of the following:

  1. private data, e.g., auctions, block building
  2. coordination within block times, e.g., block building, trade routing and filling
  3. access to fresh off-chain data, e.g., trading strategies conditional on centralized exchange prices or transactions that are conditional on other transactions
  4. commitments of various kinds, e.g., shared sequencers for rollups, new kinds of DEXes and bridges
  5. too much gas to do on-chain because of how much compute they use.

Any mechanism that strikes a meaningful balance between revenue optimality and efficiency will have broad application. SUAVE is a blockchain for many such applications and so exhibits second-order effects. For instance, keeping block building decentralized by creating an open marketplace for mechanisms could result in SUAVE being an effective, unified sequencing layer for other blockchains.

We expect that SUAVE will find increasingly wider application as more people build better mechanisms with it.

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.

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.