Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) refers to the profits that blockchain validators or miners can earn by reordering, excluding, or front-running user transactions in the mempool.

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MEV refers to the profit that validators can extract by reordering, excluding, or prioritizing transactions, often at the expense of regular users through higher gas fees or missed trades.

MEV is the maximum amount of value miners, validators, and sequencers can extract from transactions waiting for confirmations. They do this by rearranging and reordering these transactions.