Solutions

Different approaches to tackling the MEV problem

There are largely 2 schools of thought when it comes to approaching the MEV problem

1. Offense - MEV is here to stay so let's find a way to extract and democratize it.
2. Defense - MEV is bad so let's try to prevent it.

Projects like Automata Network are in the Defense camp where the solution Conveyor ingests transactions and outputs transactions in a determined order. This creates a front-running-free zone that removes the chaos of transaction reordering.

To further explain, we have put different approaches into 3 categories:

Front-running as a Service (FaaS) or MEV Auctions (MEVA)MEV MinimizationOther solutions