MEV bots pulled ~$24M from Ethereum users in 30 days.
Vitalik's response? A lot of new acronyms for a very old problem — encrypted mempools, FOCIL, ePBS. All designed to decentralize MEV, not eliminate it. validators still extract value from users, just by a more distributed set of bots.
But what if there wasn't any MEV at all?
On Stellar, validators earn no fees and transaction ordering is randomized, eliminating most MEV you see on Ethereum. And if someone did try frontrunning? the network can remove them - no fork, no staked capital required.