Researcher suggests miners are manipulating Ethereum blocks to exploit DeFi
Cointelegraph
Published Oct 01, 2020 08:09AM ET
Updated Oct 01, 2020 09:40AM ET
Some Ether (ETH) miners appear to be re-engineering blocks to take advantage of DeFi opportunities in an instance of what is termed “miner extractable value,” or MEV.
Miner extractable value was long anticipated by researchers as a potential exploit pattern for DeFi that leverages the miners’ unique protocol influence. Since miners have free reign over what transactions to include and in which order, this opens the way for several exploitation techniques for on-chain decentralized finance.
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