https://blazed.sh/blog/tags/mev-infrastructure/ Recent content in Mev-Infrastructure on BLAZED.sh Blog Hugo en-us Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:47:00 +0000 https://blazed.sh/blog/posts/what-is-a-mev-searcher/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:47:00 +0000 https://blazed.sh/blog/posts/what-is-a-mev-searcher/ <p>If you have read anything about MEV, you have met the word &ldquo;searcher&rdquo;. It is the working job title of everyone actually running the bots: the arbitrageur closing a price gap between two DEX pools, the liquidator watching health factors on a lending market, the operator whose bundle landed one block ahead of yours. The term gets used constantly and defined rarely. This post fixes that. It covers what a MEV searcher actually is, where they sit in Ethereum&rsquo;s block-building pipeline, which strategies they run, what their infrastructure looks like in practice, and then the question almost everyone asks next: do you need to run your own node to compete?</p>