Pith Number

pith:MEPWSBQ2

pith:2026:MEPWSBQ2Z4QIDXYD3T7L4ZNLED

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards Decentralized Searcher Competition in MEV Markets

Roozbeh Sarenche, Yunwen Liu

arxiv:2608.05011 v1 · 2026-08-05 · cs.GT · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MEPWSBQ2Z4QIDXYD3T7L4ZNLED}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-06T01:48:02.859241Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

611f69061acf2081df03dcfebe65ab20f7530d1a558523fa47fe228c7565ff7e

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05011 · arxiv_version: 2608.05011v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05011 · pith_short_12: MEPWSBQ2Z4QI · pith_short_16: MEPWSBQ2Z4QIDXYD · pith_short_8: MEPWSBQ2

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MEPWSBQ2Z4QIDXYD3T7L4ZNLED \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 611f69061acf2081df03dcfebe65ab20f7530d1a558523fa47fe228c7565ff7e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05e042a96ced5873138b025a3971993d09344ed02bc2446bcfe4afac9a4ecb1f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T16:15:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2bd051423a9374911c94810566a9c3f842b3c5423e0deea4f3c89ebd8e3a9693"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}