The rise of Flashbots has sprouted an interest in MEV among the entire Web3 ecosystem. Competitors have appeared in Ethereum, such as  Manifold , which competes with Flashbots in the block-building space with non-compliant OFAC blocks.

Front-running is a predatory market behavior that arises due to information asymmetries created by different actors accessing privileged information. Front-running is one of the ways to access MEV, and selling clients' orders is equivalent to the public Ethereum mempool.