Liquidity Mining, MEV Protection, and Gas Optimization: A Safer DeFi Mental Model
You provide liquidity to a decentralized exchange, approve a token, and submit a transaction from your wallet. Before the transaction settles, another actor may detect it, trade around it, or insert competing transactions. Then the gas bill arrives, and the yield that looked attractive on the dashboard is smaller than expected. This is not an unusual failure of DeFi; it is the result of several mechanisms operating at once. Liquidity mining rewards users for supplying assets to a protocol, but [...]
