Classifying MEV

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Breaks MEV into concrete proposer powers: timestamp/oracle manipulation, consensus vote censorship, and transaction-based abuses (censorship, ordering). Shows why front‑running splits into relative ordering (sandwiches), absolute ordering (dark‑forest puzzle grabs), and a third class he calls blind front‑running (liquidations anyone can perform). Maps mitigations to practical tools: encrypted mempool (time‑lock, trusted hardware, threshold encryption), order randomization, and joint proposals/inclusion rules (BFT time, Tendermint‑style voting).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 5:40Transactionbased manipulations
3. 14:00MEV Taxonomy
4. 16:46MEV Solutions

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