What is MEV Protection?
MEV Protection tools focus on mitigating the risks and negative effects of Miner Extractable Value (MEV) in blockchain transactions. These tools include transaction relayers, private transaction pools, and front-running prevention services designed to shield users and developers from value extraction by miners, validators, or bots. The primary use cases involve protecting transaction integrity, reducing front-running, sandwich attacks, and other forms of transaction manipulation that can degrade user experience and increase costs. Target users are dapp developers, DeFi protocols, and infrastructure providers who need to ensure fair transaction ordering and execution. Key characteristics of these tools include privacy, transaction obfuscation, and secure relay mechanisms. MEV Protection is closely related to categories like infrastructure and monitoring but specifically addresses transaction-level security and fairness. Developers should consider MEV Protection tools when building applications sensitive to transaction ordering or when aiming to provide users with safer, more predictable transaction outcomes.