Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) is the quantifiable profit a block producer can obtain by arbitrarily ordering, including, or excluding transactions during the construction of a block in a permissionless blockchain.

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MEV refers to the profit extracted by ordering, including, or excluding transactions within blocks that are subsequently validated.

MEV is sometimes referred to as an ‘invisible tax’ that miners can collect from users – essentially, the maximum value a miner can extract from moving around transactions when producing a block on a blockchain network

MEV denotes the additional value that blockchain validators — those creating new blocks on the network — can acquire by manipulating the order of transactions within the blocks they create.

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Maximal Extractable Value (MEV)