MEV

The monsters had devoured us.

This is a horror story.

If the chain itself is a battleground, the mempool is something worse: a dark forest.

In the Ethereum mempool, these apex predators take the form of arbitrage bots.

MEV inherently encourages consensus instability.

MEV is a measure of the profit a miner (or validator, sequencer, etc.) can make through their ability to arbitrarily include, exclude, or re-order transactions within the blocks they produce.

MEV is an invisible tax that miners can collect from users.

In any case, it's time to seriously consider what measures we can take if the situation deteriorates.