MEV: Next Frontier of the DeFi Stack
summary
Panel reports that large trades (five-digit USD) routinely get sandwich attacked and one trader finds every trade this year hit with MEV; a vault keeper got sandwiched for around $9k. Practical fixes tested: private relays/Flashbots bundles, sequencer-based ordering (Arbitrum vs discarded Polygon plan), keeper stealth relayers and slashing, wallet-driven dynamic slippage, and app-level tight bounds. Observed externalities include ~150 ETH spent on reverted transactions in a month and fast-growing MEV totals approaching billions.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00MEV panel introduction
- 1:05Quantifying MEV impact
- 5:19MEV in vault strategies
- 10:17Discarding MEV solutions
- 12:43Internalizing MEV at protocol
- 15:29Wallets vs apps: MEV mitigation
- 17:55MEV: tax or solvable?
- 19:39Fair ordering with app chains
- 22:47Future Swap’s MEV challenges
- 25:33Short-term MEV mitigation
- 29:04MEV research priorities
- 31:51Zero-gas vs Flashbots trade-offs
- 33:17Wallets as MEV solution
- 33:59Closing remarks
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