MEV-X Blog

Engineering notes from the team building Homelander. We write about where value actually comes from, how AMM yield compounds, and what it takes to ship security-audited infrastructure that DEXes choose to integrate.

Every Chain Handles MEV Differently

How Ethereum's PBS, Solana's Jito marketplace, and Sui's object model each treat MEV — and what changes when a protocol captures it directly instead of auctioning it off.

Jun 16, 2026
MEV InternalizationResearch

QuickSwap Integrates Homelander

QuickSwap's governance vote passed 3.2M QUICK in favor, zero against. What that says about where DEX infrastructure is heading.

May 18, 2026
NewsAMM Yield

Bailsec Audits the Algebra Plugin

A differential audit of Homelander's Algebra plugin update, and why extending an already-audited execution model is a different risk profile than shipping a new one.

May 27, 2026
Security AuditsNews

MixBytes Audits the Uniswap v4 Hook

MixBytes' audit of the Uniswap v4 hook implementation, and how the hook contains external-execution failures instead of letting them touch the user's swap.

May 6, 2026
Security AuditsNews

Homelander Is Expanding to Uniswap v4

With Uniswap Foundation grant support, Homelander moves onto v4's hook architecture — and the afterSwap hook becomes the atomic capture point.

Apr 22, 2026
NewsAMM Yield

Where MEV Actually Comes From

Four independent attribution methods trace 96.7% of atomic arbitrage on Polygon back to a single source transaction. What that means for how MEV protection should be designed.

Apr 9, 2026
Research

Keeping Value Inside the Protocol

Three ways a protocol can handle post-swap MEV — ignore it, capture it natively, or route it to an external partner — and why leakage isn't actually unavoidable.

Jan 28, 2026
MEV InternalizationAMM Yield

Bailsec's First Homelander Audit

Bailsec's first audit of Homelander found no exploitable vulnerabilities — and confirmed that a failed internal MEV path can't touch the user's swap outcome.

Jan 12, 2026
Security Audits

External vs Internal MEV Resolution in AMMs

Every swap that moves a pool off the market price creates an arbitrage opportunity. Who closes it — an external searcher or the protocol itself — decides who keeps the value.

Dec 12, 2025
AMM YieldMEV Internalization

Introducing Homelander

The system that captures post-swap arbitrage atomically, in the same transaction, and turns it into yield for the protocol instead of letting it leak to validators and block builders.

Dec 1, 2025
MEV InternalizationAMM Yield

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Academic Research

Peer-reviewed and preprint work from the MEV-X research team, published independently of this blog.

Essay · 2026
AMM Yield Maximization: Convergence of the Liquidity Provider and Arbitrageur Roles
A mathematical model of how a market dislocation splits between pool fees and arbitrage profit, and the zero-fee optimum where merging the LP and arbitrageur roles captures all of it.
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Preprint · arXiv 2026
From Impermanent Loss to Sustainable Gain: Quantifying Profitability Zones for Liquidity Providers on DEX
A mathematical model of AMM arbitrage that bounds LP–arbitrageur joint revenue and derives the pool fee needed to stay in the impermanent-gain zone.
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Preprint · arXiv 2026
Characterizing Path-Independent Fees: A Route to Zero Impermanent Loss in CPMMs
A closed-form fee framework for CPMMs that removes path dependence and constructs zero-impermanent-loss pools without breaking composability.
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Preprint · arXiv 2026
Chain Reactions: How Nonce Collisions in ECDSA Compromise Polygon MEV Searchers
A linear-algebra attack recovering private keys from searchers whose latency-driven nonce reuse creates exploitable signature patterns — a cautionary study in what MEV protection has to defend against.
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Preprint · arXiv 2026
The Origins of MEV: Systematic Attribution of Arbitrage Opportunity Creation at Scale
Four independent methods trace 96.7% of atomic arbitrage on Polygon back to a single source transaction, across 1.05M blocks and $334,799 in extracted MEV.
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Preprint · arXiv 2025
The Bidding Games: Reinforcement Learning for MEV Extraction on Polygon Blockchain
A PPO-based bidding agent for Polygon Atlas's sealed-bid auctions, capturing 49% of available profits alongside existing searchers and 81% when replacing the market leader.
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IEEE ICBC · 2025
Unpacking Maximum Extractable Value on Polygon: A Study on Atomic Arbitrage
22 months and 23M blocks of Polygon backrunning, comparing spam-based and auction-based searcher strategies and what actually drives their profitability.
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