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  • A Brief Introduction about EigenPhi Classroom
  • Glossary
    • MEV
    • MEV Contract
    • Malicious Token
    • Trading Volume
    • Trading Volume Change%
    • Transaction Profit Distribution (percentile)
    • Arbitrage ID
    • 1D/7D/30D
    • Liquidity Pool
    • Smart Contract
    • Protocol
    • Profit%
    • TFIDF
    • Asset, Liquidation
    • Borrower, Liquidation
    • Liquidator, Liquidation
    • Collateral, Liquidation
    • LTV, Liquidation
    • Liquidation Threshold, Liquidation
  • MEV Types
    • Arbitrage
      • Arbitrage Using 2 Tokens Between 2 Trading Venues
      • Arbitrage Involving 3 Tokens Among 3 Trading Venues
      • Arbitrage Requiring More Tokens and More Trading Venues
      • Arbitrage package
    • Sandwich MEV
    • Liquidation
      • Liquidation transaction with Aave V2 involved
  • Users of EigenPhi
    • Researcher
    • Searcher
    • Retail Investor
  • Communities & Channels
    • Our MEV Daily Report
      • Overview Section of Daily Report
      • Summary Data by MEV Types of Daily Report
      • MEV-Bot Data by MEV Types of Daily Report
      • Hot Liquidity Pools and Hot Tokens of Daily Report
      • MEV Transaction Profit Leaderboard of Daily Report
      • Download And Share Daily Report Data
    • Our Sandwich Daily Report
      • Overview Section of Sandwich Daily Report
      • Sandwich MEV Trends of Last 24 Hours and 7 Days
      • What Were the Sandwich Searchers Capable of Yesterday?
      • The 5 Most Delicious Sandwiches
      • Watch Out When Using These Protocols, Routers, and Proxies!
      • Top Attackers and Victims
      • Download And Share Sandwich Daily Report Data
    • Our Data Sources
    • Our Content and Social Channels
  • EigenPhi's Methodologies
    • Do You Have These Questions When Doing DeFi Trading?
    • 2 Biggest Concerns That Haven't Been Properly Addressed
    • 3 Pillars of DeFi: Structure, Behavior, and Network
    • The EigenPhi Way
    • Why MEV?
    • How EigenPhi Identifies MEV
      • Recognizing Atomic Arbitrage MEV Transactions
        • Implementation
        • A Typical Arbitrage Example
      • Recognizing Cross-Transaction Sandwich MEV
        • Example
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MEV

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Last updated 2 years ago

Maximal extractable value (MEV) refers to the maximum value that can be extracted from block production more than the standard block reward and gas fees by including, excluding, and changing the order of transactions in a block.

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In the new world of DeFi, there are many types of MEVs. And much more are coming with the freshly minted tokens, newly deployed protocols and , just go-lived L1 and L2 solutions, not to mention the incoming PoS of the Eth2 era. Sometimes, the downfall of certain assets would create enormous opportunities for MEV .

Like the financial products and services binding with legal tenders in the old/real world, all the DeFi products and services have to be coupled with certain . Therefore all the MEVs are proceeding via tokens. All the tokens have their valuation based on their relationship with other tokens, traditional legal tenders, Web3, and real-world financial services and products. Sometimes even tweets.

But don’t forget: the real power of affecting the token prices of these tweets is not coming from the tweets themselves but the person and his or her’s control over immense financial assets. The majority of the public would not pay attention to the prediction of Bitcoin’s price coming from some random guy whose net worth is all in the shopping cart he’s been pushing around all day.

All the variations of DeFi result in the rise and fall of asset value in the form of token price fluctuation, which in turn creates MEV opportunities for traders, including arbitrage, Sandwich MEV, and others.

https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/mev/
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