Is There Anything That Other People Can Do With This Information?

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The memory po or mempur in short, is actually transparent for anyone to see. So is there anything that other people can do with the information? Yes. There's a few ways that people who are watching thethe mempor can exploit this knowledge of other transactions and oty ability to get transactions in before others to to profit. And it doesn't depend on knowing anything about any other a transactions in the men pool. It just depends on being the first one to take advantage of a change in the world's state....

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

Dan Robinson https://twitter.com/danrobinson

Georgios Konstantopoulos https://twitter.com/gakonst

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