July 7, 2026 · 5 min read
What Is MEV? A Developer's Plain Explainer
MEV — maximal extractable value — is why your swap sometimes executes at a worse price than you saw, and why validators reorder transactions for profit. A plain-English tour of front-running, sandwiches, and back-running, how the public mempool enables it, and what you can actually do about it.
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