Phildaian is a MEV researcher and open-source developer known for foundational work on miner extractable value and transaction ordering in decentralized systems. Phildaian's Twitter Score is 358 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #783 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Phildaian is affiliated with the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3) and is a listed author of the "Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges" paper, published in 2019, which brought widespread attention to MEV dynamics on decentralized exchanges. He also released frontrun.me, a real-time priority gas auction data portal, open-sourcing its associated code and data for public use.
Phildaian maintains a public GitHub repository named mev, described as "Miner extractable value modeling and tools," reflecting ongoing contributions to open-source infrastructure in this space. Phildaian has been mentioned by 248 accounts a total of 552 times. Phildaian's account has accumulated 24,280 followers as of July 2026 and 11,863 posts since joining in 2012.
Phildaian's portfolio includes DerivaDEX.
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The accounts that follow Phildaian include 1,203 founders, 369 angel investors, 425 influencers and 23 VCs. Among them are Balaji, Chris Dixon, vitalik.eth, Laura Shin, Toly and jesse.base.eth.