Sorella Labs, a Web3 startup, has emerged from stealth mode with a $7.5 million seed round led by Paradigm, along with participation from Uniswap Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Robot Ventures, and Nascent. The company aims to tackle Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) issues on the Ethereum network.

MEV is a profit technique used by bots and validators to exploit inefficiencies in the trade ordering mechanism. This includes strategies like front-running, sandwich attacks, and arbitrage, which often disadvantage those with limited resources.

Sorella Labs is developing two products, Brontes and Angstrom, to address these challenges. Brontes, debuting on August 20, is an open-source blockchain analytics tool designed to classify transaction actions and identify MEV through pattern matching and analysis. Unlike other MEV solutions that target the Ethereum protocol level, Sorella focuses on mitigating MEV at the application layer.