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MEV (Maximal Extractable Value)

The maximum value that can be extracted from block production beyond standard block rewards and gas fees.

Definition

The maximum value that can be extracted from block production beyond standard block rewards and gas fees. Block builders reorder, insert, or censor transactions to capture arbitrage, liquidations, and sandwich attacks. MEV affects every blockchain user through worse prices and higher costs.

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Related Terms

MEV (Maximal Extractable Value)

Profit that block producers can extract by reordering, inserting, or censoring transactions.

Sandwich Attack

An MEV strategy where a bot places a buy order right before your swap and a sell order right after, profiting from the price impact your trade creates.

Front-Running

Placing a transaction ahead of someone else's known pending trade to profit from the price impact.

ABI

Application Binary Interface.

Account Abstraction

A way to make crypto wallets behave more like normal apps by turning every account into a smart contract.

ERC-4337

The Ethereum standard for account abstraction without changing the core protocol.

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