According to PANews, crypto startup Sorella Labs has successfully raised $7.5 million in a seed funding round led by Paradigm, with participation from Uniswap Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Robot Ventures, and Nascent. The company is focused on developing tools to tackle the Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) problem on the Ethereum network. MEV refers to the profits that validators or bots can extract by reordering, inserting, or censoring transactions within a block. Common MEV strategies include frontrunning (executing transactions before others), sandwich attacks (trading before and after large transactions), and arbitrage (profiting from price differences across platforms). These practices can lead to higher costs for DeFi users and create unfair advantages for those with more resources. To combat MEV attacks, Sorella Labs is developing two tools, Brontes and Angstrom. Brontes has been launched today, while Angstrom is expected to be released later this year following the mainnet launch of Uniswap V4.