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October

2024

DLx Law urges both developers and regulators to adopt a principles-based approach to MEV-related risk mitigation in blockchain systems

MEV is increasingly shaping practical implementations of blockchain technology and the systems and applications it can support. In this recent article published by Global Legal Insights, DLx Law attorneys Tom Momberg and Angela Angelovska-Wilson take you through a deep dive into MEV (known by many also as “miner extractable value” or “maximum extractable value” in certain circumstances).

MEV is a variable set of phenomena that inherently manifest on every open and permissionless blockchain network. DLx Law therefore believes that understanding MEV’s implications and exploring ways to mitigate its potentially negative externalities is more important than ever. The authors hope this piece can help spark critical discussions about balancing innovation and accountability in digital assets and Web3.

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Tom Momberg

+17186645458 tom.momberg@dlxlaw.com

Tom advises clients in an array of matters related to blockchain technology, decentralized finance, banking and payments systems, financial products, and financial technology applications. He joined DLx Law as an attorney after working as in-house counsel for a payments and banking software service provider, advising on various legal and regulatory matters, operations, risk, customer due diligence, and corporate best practices.

Tom received his J.D. from George Mason University Law School in Virginia and his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Tom is a former journalist, and, while in law school, he interned for DLx Law and served as a law clerk for several federal institutions in Washington, D.C., including the CFTC, FCC, and House Judiciary Committee. Tom is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and the State of Oregon.

Angela Angelovska-Wilson

+12023651448 angela@dlxlaw.com

Angela is an early distributed ledger technology adopter and a leading authority in the evolving global legal and regulatory landscape surrounding distributed ledger technology and smart contracts. Prior to co-founding DLx Law, Angela served as the Chief Legal & Compliance Officer of Digital Asset and was part of the founding team.

Prior to joining Digital Asset, Angela was a partner at Reed Smith where she regularly advised clients on the implementation of new technologies to finance and the complex regulatory schemes involved in the development, creation, marketing, sale and servicing of various financial services and products. Before Reed Smith, Angela spent most of her career in various roles at Latham & Watkins, where she was recognized by The Legal 500 US among the top finance attorneys in the U.S.

Angela has a deep understanding of the Fin-Tech industry and in particular the distributed ledger industry, having been involved in a number of startups in various roles, as an employee, entrepreneur and advisor. In addition to DLx Law, Angela is also co-founder of Sila Inc., an innovative technology company.