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 371 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #679 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 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 555 times. Phildaian's account has accumulated 24,211 followers as of August 2026 and 11,865 posts since joining in 2012.
Phildaian's portfolio includes DerivaDEX.
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The accounts that follow Phildaian include 1,357 founders, 407 angel investors, 327 influencers and 19 VCs. Among them are Balaji, Chris Dixon, vitalik.eth, Toly, jesse.base.eth and Laura Shin.