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Flashbots Builder Bids

Per-block Flashbots relay builder bids on Ethereum

Category
Events
Append-only transactions
Granularity
Per-block (every Ethereum block)
Format
Apache Parquet
Snappy compression, Hive-partitioned
Nodes
1 (EU-Central)
Frankfurt — low-latency to HyperLiquid & Ethereum

About This Dataset

Every Flashbots relay builder bid: block number, builder public key, bid value in ETH, gas used, and gas limit. Maps the exact cost of Ethereum block space and toxic order flow.

Partitions
chain: ethereum

Schema

ColumnTypeDescription
time_chaintimestampBlock timestamp (UTC)
block_numberint64Ethereum block number
builder_pubkeystringBuilder public key
bid_value_ethfloat64Bid value in ETH
gas_usedint64Gas consumed by the block
gas_limitint64Block gas limit

Use Cases

R2 Path

s3://algotick-data-lake/events/mev_bids/chain=ethereum/year=YYYY/month=MM/day=DD/node={node}/data.parquet
Replace YYYY, MM, DD with the target date. Data is collected from node=eu-central.

Query with DuckDB

import duckdb

df = duckdb.sql("""
    SELECT *
    FROM read_parquet(
        's3://algotick-data-lake/events/mev_bids/chain=ethereum/year=2026/month=04/day=20/node=eu-central/data.parquet'
    )
    LIMIT 100
""").df()

print(f"Rows: {len(df)}, Columns: {list(df.columns)}")

Download via API

import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://algotick.dev/v2/history/raw?dataset=mev_bids&chain=ethereum&date=2026-04-20",
    stream=True,
)

with open("mev-bids.parquet", "wb") as f:
    for chunk in resp.iter_content(8192):
        f.write(chunk)

# Then query locally
import duckdb
df = duckdb.sql("SELECT * FROM 'mev-bids.parquet' LIMIT 100").df()
print(df)
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