💰 $2500 - most useful onboarding site for Flashbots Protect with MEV-Share

Flashbots Protect aims to be the best place to send transactions on Ethereum. It’s a transaction service that offers frontrunning protection, transaction reverts protection, configurable privacy and execution, and the ability to internalize MEV for everyday users when sending transactions on Ethereum, as simple as adding the Flashbots Protect RPC to their wallets.

Since its inception in Oct 2021, Flashbots Protect RPC had protected thousands of Ethereum users from the dark forest. Earlier this year, Flashbots Protect went through a major upgrade via MEV-Share beta, which provides configurable privacy and the ability for users to receive MEV refunds for the MEV they created in sending transactions. Last week, Flashbots Protect is turbocharged with a 4x speed improvement - users can opt-in to share their transactions with additional block builders that account for 80% of the market.

However, most resources on Flashbots Protect and MEV-Share are dense with information and difficult to digest for everyday users who could have benefited from using Flashbots Protect. Build a creative and intuitive onboarding site for Flashbots Protect.

Some elements you can incorporate on the website

• A tool that shows the user the history of the wallet address’ interactions with Flashbots Protect
• Statuses of user's Protected txs
• User's MEV-Share refund total

Submission requirements

• A functional and complete onboarding site
• The website must have a one click button to use Flashbots Protect as RPC for the user’s wallet.
• The code should be open sourced

Nice to haves for bonus points

• A viral marketing hack

Judging criteria

• Creativity and innovation in the project idea and implementation
• User experience and ease of use
• Compliance with submission requirements and guidelines
• Open source availability of the project code

Resources

• MEV Blocker’s official website is a good reference
• Docs page for Flashbots Protect and MEV Share
• Flashbots Protect’s public beta announcement and one year review at Merge
• Bert’s post on the design of MEV Share and announcement of MEV Share beta
• Fastlane’s awesome Searcher Explorer App

💸 $1500 - building the coolest bot searching on MEV-Share

MEV-share presents searchers with a new challenge of competing for and executing against transactions of users with configurable privacy. We want to see what kind of cool bots you can build with such transactions!

Submission requirements

• A functional bot that can search on MEV-Share
• Present the bot to other hackers without code

Nice to haves for bonus points

• Make the bot open sourced and continue running it after hackathon

Judging criteria

• Creativity and innovation in both the project idea and its implementation
• Effective utilization of MEV-Share's new order type and programmable privacy features
• Adherence to all submission requirements and guidelines
• Availability of the project code as open source

Resources

• Same resource from the previous challenges
• Protocol specs
• Node implementation
• Typescript client library
• Simple blind arbitrage bot repo
• Limit Order Bot tutorial and repo. Very beginner friendly! Check out Shea’s twitter thread for even more context.

🏆 $1000 - best design for using MEV-Share and programmable privacy in another application

The programmable privacy design in MEV-Share presents a new paradigm that allows users to programmatically share information with searchers to bargain for the MEV they create in a permissionless fashion. This also creates the challenge of how to best program the privacy for different use cases. We would like to invite you to brainstorm how to leverage programmable privacy in applications like NFT, oracle updates, DEXe…

Candidate ideas

• New default hint configuration for a certain use case like NFTs
• A specification for using MEV-Share in a dapp

Submission requirements

• A functional and complete design for using MEV-Share and programmable privacy in another application
• The design must be detailed and explain how it will work in practice
• The solution should be novel and innovative
• The code should be open sourced

Judging criteria

• Novelty and innovation of the design
• Feasibility and practicality of the design
• Compliance with submission requirements and guidelines
• Open source availability of the project code

Resources

• Same resource from the previous challenges
• Programmable privacy specs
• Docs page for MEV Share
• Flashbots Protect RPC docs