MEV Harms Ethereum Users And it May Be Here For Some Time
One of the hottest debates in Ethereum (ETH) right now is about miner extractable value (MEV). This is the practice of miners ordering (or being paid to order) transactions in such a way as to front-run or back-run trades made by other users. MEV was documented as early as April 2019 in a paper authored by researchers (predominantly) from Cornell University, who wrote that