Cross-Chain Arbitrage and MEV: TU Munich Research Built on Allium Data
Researchers from TU Munich and Flashbots used Allium's transaction-level data across nine chains to map cross-chain arbitrage, a growing frontier of MEV in DeFi.
Researchers from the Technical University of Munich, Flashbots, and Instituto Superior Técnico cited Allium as the core data source in a December 2025 study on cross-chain arbitrage, published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems.
What the paper looks at
Cross-Chain Arbitrage: The Next Frontier of MEV in Decentralized Finance examines how value is extracted across blockchains as bridging makes on-chain markets increasingly interconnected, and how that reshapes maximal extractable value (MEV) beyond a single chain.
Where Allium comes in
The empirical analysis ran on Allium data: more than 530 million trade transactions across nine chains, protocol tagging spanning over 100 protocols, an hourly token price model, and labeled bridge and DeFi datasets used to detect cross-chain arbitrage and identify the contracts behind it. Allium was the foundation the researchers built their measurements on, not a passing reference.
Read it
Open access (arXiv): https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17335
Published version (ACM, PACMMOD Vol. 9, No. 3, Article 51): https://doi.org/10.1145/3771566
Öz, B., Ferreira Torres, C., Schlegel, C., Mazorra, B., Gebele, J., Rezabek, F., & Matthes, F. (2025). Cross-Chain Arbitrage: The Next Frontier of MEV in Decentralized Finance. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, 9(3), Article 51.
