TechFlow reports that on January 27, FastLane announced a collaboration with Category Labs to launch the world’s first fully decentralized MEV Protocol. This protocol aims to help Monad validators achieve higher yields while retaining full MEV capture within the Monad ecosystem.
According to the announcement, the MEV Protocol consists of two core components: Sidecar and Auction Handler. Its overall design introduces no new trust assumptions, relies on no centralized intermediaries, and involves neither block builders, private relays, nor private RPCs.
FastLane states that this solution directly leverages Monad’s existing validator set and mempool, implemented via RaptorCast. The Monad Foundation has confirmed that the FastLane Sidecar complies with its Validator Design Principles (VDP) guidelines and will not affect validators’ eligibility for staking delegation from the Foundation.
Industry observers believe this release further solidifies FastLane’s leading position in both Liquid Staking Token (LST) and MEV infrastructure on Monad, and may drive standardization of decentralized MEV architectures across next-generation high-performance public blockchain ecosystems.
