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.
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SKALE Labs Reveals New Protocol to Combat $1.8 Billion MEV Problem
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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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