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Zero-knowledge proofs and verifiable randomness secure fair transaction ordering, eliminating front-running and democratizing extractable value.

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→Constant Function Market

→Exchange Design

→Arbitrage Opportunities

RediSwap Mechanism Captures MEV and LVR, Redistributing Value to Users and LPs

This mechanism design breakthrough internalizes arbitrage within AMMs, capturing MEV to provide superior execution and fair value distribution.

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→Cryptographic Primitives

→Transaction Ordering

→Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Fino Protocol Achieves MEV Protection on High-Throughput DAG Consensus

Fino embeds blind order-fairness into DAG-BFT with zero message overhead, securing high-throughput systems against transaction reordering attacks.

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→Decentralized Finance

→On-Chain Economics

→Transaction Ordering

Active Block Producers Preclude Incentive-Compatible Transaction Fee Mechanisms

An impossibility proof shows no single TFM can align incentives for both users and active MEV-extracting block producers, mandating external design augmentation.

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→Miner Revenue

→Truthful Bidding

→Block Producer Incentives

Impossibility Proof for Collusion-Resistant, Truthful, and Revenue-Maximizing Mechanisms

Foundational mechanism design proves no deterministic transaction fee auction can simultaneously ensure user truthfulness, miner revenue, and collusion resistance.

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→Mechanism Design

→Consensus Decoupling

→Order Fairness

Decentralized Clock Network Enforces Fair Transaction Ordering Using Timestamps

This work introduces a Decentralized Clock Network that separates transaction ordering from consensus, using timestamp agreement to enforce $delta$-Median Fairness and mitigate front-running.

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→Block Construction Protocol

→Maximal Extractable Value

→Mechanism Design

Protected Order Flow System Limits Harmful MEV in Builder-Proposer Separation

PROF introduces a mechanism to minimize adversarial MEV in Proposer-Builder Separation, transcending the tradeoff between user protection and transaction inclusion rate.

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→Protocol Mechanism Design

→Block Proposer Incentives

→Network Efficiency

FairFlow Protocol Enforces Equitable Transaction Ordering Mitigating Extractable Value

This mechanism uses commit-reveal cryptography and incentives to decouple block proposal from transaction ordering, radically reducing MEV and ensuring systemic fairness.

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→Maximal Extractable Value

→Front-Running Prevention

→Provably Fair Execution

Commitment-Reveal Decouples Ordering from Value to Ensure Fairness

A novel two-phase commitment-reveal protocol decouples transaction ordering from content knowledge, eliminating block producer MEV extraction and ensuring provably fair sequencing.

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→On-Chain Value Distribution

→Execution Payload Rights

→Transaction Ordering Fairness

Protocol-Level MEV Ticketing Internalizes Value for Equitable Blockchain Economic Security

Execution Tickets introduce a native asset to directly broker Maximal Extractable Value, transforming validator incentives and securing protocol revenue.