Paper Title: Frontrunning in Crypto and NFT Trading on DeFi Exchanges

Paper Abstract: Blockchains and smart contracts promised to create fair and transparent trading on decentralized finance (DeFi) exchanges. However, widespread deployment of arbitrage bots on DeFi exchanges exploits users' trades in a phenomenon called maximium extractable value (MEV), with often devastating financial consequences for individual traders. We describe MEV and solutions to mitigate its impact and protect individual traders/investors as well as exchange operators.

Paper Author: Jim Ballingall, Exec Director, Industry-Academia Partnership (IAP)

Author Bio: Jim Ballingall is Executive Director of the Industry-Academia Partnership (IAP), an association that fosters R&D and innovation by bringing together industry and university partners in pursuit of timely themes in applications and infrastructure, including AI and machine learning, hardware acceleration, operating systems, networking, Big Data, security, storage and data management - all in the context of distributed systems. IAP members include leading companies and the top computer science and engineering programs in the world (www.industry-academia.org). Jim served on the High Performance Computing Committee of the IEEE Computer Society and is President of Ballingall Consulting, a consultancy that serves industry and academia.