Ethereum projects unite to protect users from MEV-induced high prices

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In total, 27 Ethereum projects joined the initiative as launch partners, including Balancer, Gnosis DAO, Shapeshift and StakeDAO, to name a few. 

 

Over 27 prominent Ethereum projects joined hands to launch MEV Blocker, a solution that aims to tackle and minimize the amount of value extracted from their users — aka maximally extractable value (MEV), Ethereum’s invisible tax. 

MEV is a tax imposed on decentralized finance (DeFi) users on transactions. MEV bots can hijack transactions midway, such as Ether trades, nonfungible token (NFT) purchases and Ethereum Name Service registrations, and inflate prices for the users. MEV Blocker was jointly developed by CoW Swap, Agnostic Relay and Beaver Build as a free and censorship-resistant tool to counter this “$1.3 billion dollar problem” persistent across the Ethereum ecosystem.

 

In total, 27 Ethereum projects joined the initiative as launch partners, including Balancer, Gnosis DAO, Shapeshift, and StakeDAO, to name a few. Explaining the intention behind launching MEV Blocker, Martin Köppelmann, CEO of Gnosis, stated:

“With the launch of MEV Blocker, users can profit from the backrunning opportunities they create. Today all of that money is taken by the searcher, but why shouldn’t it be split with the people who create the value?”

MEV Blocker can be added as a custom remote procedure call endpoint to a crypto wallet, which, in turn, can protect users from frontrunning and sandwiching when using any Ethereum decentralized application. According to the official announcement, MEV Blocker sends at least 90% of the profits from winning bids back to users and 10% to validators as a reward — thus giving “power back to Ethereum users.”

 

 

On April 5, Ether breached $1,900 for the first time in over seven months. However, it is important to note that the price of ETH dropped sharply following the execution of the Merge on Sept. 15, 2022.

 

Source : [Ethereum projects unite to protect users from MEV-induced high prices](cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-projects-unite-to-protect-users-from-mev-induced-high-prices) by Cointelegraph By Arijit Sarkar - Cointelegraph by Cointelegraph By Arijit Sarkar / April 05, 2023

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