Scaling & Network Infrastructure

MEV

Also: Maximal Extractable Value, Miner Extractable Value

The profit that block producers or sophisticated bots can capture by choosing which transactions to include and in what order, including inserting their own. It is a hidden cost to ordinary traders, and a major area of protocol design.

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