MEV Extraction: How Block Builders Impact Retail DeFi Users in Ethereum and Beyond
The Hidden Tax on Decentralized Finance When a retail trader swaps $500 of ETH for USDC on Uniswap, they expect a fair execution—a transparent trade at market price, settled on a neutral blockchain. What they rarely see is the invisible economy operating around their transaction: the bots, searchers, builders, and validators extracting value from their … Read more