How Common Is This Front Running With Thes Transactions?

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A lot of the high gas prices are driven by these forrunners. What we see there are these priority gas auctions where, once when is a front running opportunity, different bots compete to get it. But ultimately, y if you confirm on something, someone can, some one can get innd and get ahead of you. And this was empirically sen to be a driver behind the increase of gas prices in the ege system....

Today, I brought on Dan Robinson and Georgios Konstantopoulos, who are both research partners at Paradigm. Together, we explore the topic of MEV, or “Miner Extractable Value”.

Blockchains like Ethereum have this dirty little secret that, while in most regards they are very decentralized, the ordering of transactions within a single block is actually completely in the hands of a single miner. They can insert their own transactions, rearrange those of users, or even censor them completely.

MEV describes how much value a miner can extract from users and other miners by using these powers to their advantage.

If you’ve never looked into MEV before, I think you’ll be both shocked and fascinated by the complexity and sophistication of the war that’s raging inside Ethereum’s memory pool. Enjoy

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Georgios Konstantopoulos https://twitter.com/gakonst

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