The lack of regulation in blockchain ecosystems allows MEV practices like transaction reordering and front-running to thrive without traditional financial oversight or enforcement.

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Unlike their stock market counterparts, they have no guardrails to worry about, and there’s no cop patrolling the beat

Regulators applying a traditional finance lens to this process is akin to forcing a square peg into a round hole

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Maximal Extractable Value (MEV)