Financial freedom means stopping crypto MEV attacks — Shutter Network contributor

Cryptocurrency was created to be a neutral, fair and equitable financial technology to empower regular people to transact freely anywhere, at any time and with anyone. However, much of crypto can hardly be considered fair for the average user in 2025, according to Shutter Network core contributor Loring Harkness.

Harkness says maximum extractable value (MEV) bots, whale decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) voters and others have made crypto a place where the average user feels less secure and empowered than they should — but that there is a simple solution to several of these issues.

On Episode 14 of The Agenda podcast, hosts Jonathan DeYoung and Ray Salmond chat with Harkness about fairness in crypto, how the Shutter Network uses encryption to safeguard users, and why enabling free and fair transactions has global geopolitical implications for activists and those living under authoritarian regimes.