What Is a ‘Dead-Block’ or ’empty-Block’ Strategy and How Does It Relate to Transaction Failure?
A 'dead-block' or 'empty-block' strategy is an MEV-related defense where a validator or a block builder intentionally creates a block with no transactions, or only non-exploitable ones, when they detect a large, exploitable transaction in the mempool. This is done to prevent a front-runner from executing a profitable attack.
It relates to transaction failure because the exploitable transaction is not included, and if the user has a time-sensitive order, it might eventually fail or be subject to a different attack later.
