Who is teaching this and why it matters

This lesson is framed around real audit findings explained by Pashov. That matters because nothing here is theoretical. Every idea ends in money actually lost.

The goal is not to “know MEV exists”.

The goal is never missing an MEV bug in an audit.

What MEV really means (reframed correctly)

MEV = profit made by controlling transaction ordering, not by breaking code.

This is the ideological core.

MEV is orthogonal to Solidity correctness:

• The contract can be “correct”
• The math can be “right”
• And users still lose money

Why? Because ordering is power.

The 4 MEV forms Pashov highlights (with auditor intuition)

1️⃣ Arbitrage (benign but unavoidable)

Price differs across pools → bots rebalance → profit.

This is healthy MEV:

• Keeps markets efficient