Solana validators slow to adopt Frankendancer for MEV reasons
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Uma hatches Oval MEV product for lending dapps
Oracle protocol Uma, after days of social media teasing, took the wraps off its latest innovation today: Oval, a tool...
Miner Extractable Value (MEV) and Programmable Money: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The core of Bitcoin’s security model relies on this basic game theory—miners, armed with their digital pickaxes, are in a...
Uniswap: Stuck between MEV bots and sandwich attacks
The presence of MEV bots on Uniswap grew, impacting users, who incurred losses. However, the price of UNI continued to...
Global securities regulator calls out MEV in DeFi, highlighting ‘unlawful’ nature
Regulators should seek to hold a provider of a DeFi product or service to account for identifying and mitigating maximal...
Espresso’s Gunter on tackling Ethereum’s MEV problem
Espresso co-founder Jill Gunter recalls Ethereum’s ICO token heyday, when she first tried to buy into a token sale. Comparing...
Ethereum: Will MEV bots hinder network growth?
Ethereum’s recent positive momentum was accompanied by challenges posed by MEV bots and staking reward fluctuation. Growing retail interest in...
CoW Swap seeks to solve the MEV problem in decentralized trading
A coincidence of wants, Felix Leupold explains, is “an economic phenomenon where one party would like to purchase an asset...
MEV doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game, research suggests
dYdX, the onchain perpetual trading exchange, is poised to embrace full decentralization with its upcoming v4 protocol design. Consequently, its...
Ethereum MEV incentives limit decentralization new report shows
On blockchain networks like Ethereum, decentralized validation underpins the entire ecosystem. Yet paradoxically, the highly-technical process of constructing the blocks...